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Jan 24 2020 1:14pm
Iraq: security forces kill at least 12 protesters in renewed crackdown
Video and eyewitness evidence show live ammunition used against unarme...
Jan 20 2020 3:24pm
Iraq: Human rights lawyer forcibly disappeared
On 8 October 2019, armed men suspected of belonging to the Popular Mob...
Dec 16 2019 4:08pm
Photographer abducted outside his home
On 6 December 2019, 22-year-old Iraqi photographer, Zaid Mohammed Abid...
Dec 13 2019 4:49pm
Iraq: new 'campaign of terror' against protesters - testimonies
In past two weeks, activists and protesters shot dead in streets or ab...
Dec 7 2019 8:57pm
IRAQ: Testimonies emerge of coordinated attacks which killed at least 20 protesters
Amnesty International has gathered detailed eyewitness testimony of th...
Nov 28 2019 4:40pm
Iraq: 'street filled with blood', as security forces kill 25 at Nasiriyah protest
Eyewitnesses describe security forces shooting to kill in bridge prote...
Nov 10 2019 7:11am
Iraq: rein in security forces to prevent a bloodbath
Iraqi authorities must immediately rein in security forces after at le...
Oct 31 2019 4:28pm
Iraq: deadly new 'smoker' tear gas grenades used against protesters
String of gruesome fatalities caused by recent use of heavyweight mili...
Oct 29 2019 4:07pm
Iraq: 'Horrific scenes' as security forces kill protesters in Karbala
Iraqi security forces resorted yet again to excessive and unlawful let...
Oct 9 2019 5:13pm
Iraq: witnesses confirm snipers have deliberately killed protesters
With death toll exceeding 150, authorities must investigate security f...