This is the 20th periodic report issued by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) since January 2020, documenting the human rights situation in Iraq. The report includes cases of academics and public officials targeted with violence, threats to children’s rights, in addition to clashes during protests in Iraq. While welcoming the prosecution of the killers of journalists and civil society activists, GCHR calls for full accountability for the authors of these attacks as part of a pattern of systematic violence. Also, GCHR condemns the terrorist operations carried out by the terrorist organisation Da’esh against defenseless civilians.

Achieving justice and holding the perpetrators accountable

Civil society activists and the families of victims who were killed and kidnapped during the protest period that began on 01 October 2019 are still waiting for more serious government measures than the procrastination that is currently taking place to achieve justice and hold the perpetrators to account, especially with the repeated promises by the government of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi to pursue them.

Source: Gulf Center Of Humain Rights