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The state of human rights in Iraq

Since October 2019, the authorities have forcefully repressed national popular movements against government corruption and poor economic conditions, leading to gross and hostile violations on journalists, protestors, and human rights defenders, including incommunicado detention, arbitrary arrest, physical attacks, enforced disappearance, kidnapping, torture, ill-treatment, abductions, and targeted assassinations.

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Three journalists fired from their positions with State-owned newspaper Al-Sabah

Beirut, 16 January 2012 -- On 2 January 2012, Al-Sabah, a State-owned daily newspaper based in Baghdad announced that it had dismissed the head of the cultural

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GCHR’s 37th Periodic Report on Human Rights Violations in Iraq
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  • Iraq
  • 14/04/2026

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has been documenting the human rights situation in Iraq over the past five years since the start of the popular uprising in

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Human Rights in the Middle East Countries: 2025 Annual Report of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights
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  • BahrainIranIraqIraqi KurdistanJordanKuwaitLebanonMENAOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaSyriaTunisiaUAEYemen
  • 31/03/2026

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The main objective of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is to foster a vibrant and safe civic space in which human rights defenders (HRDs)

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