For (Republic of Iraq)

            The Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights (Egypt) is extremely concerned; Regarding the expansion of the phenomenon of enforced disappearance in Iraq, in recent years, as Iraqi security forces use it, regardless of their loyalty, as a means of intimidating opponents, critics, and suspected religious organizations, as well as human rights activists and lawyers, whose testimonies showed that the Iraqi security forces systematically target anyone who speaks Publicly about the behavior of security forces during the protests.

In a related context, the number of cases that were subjected to enforced disappearance in Iraq, during the years 2017, 2018, and 2019, reached about 7663, and there are 652 of those disappeared in detention facilities, and according to the Commission for Human Rights in Iraq, the number of reports of cases of enforced disappearance has reached From the last months of 2017 until August 2019, there were more than 7,000 complaints or complaints about the loss of people or the unknown fate of them, most of them lost after June 2014, according to the statements of their relatives and families.

Accordingly, Maat Foundation calls on the Iraqi authorities to immediately rein in the security forces, and recommends them to dispel the climate of fear that they deliberately created. To prevent Iraqis from exercising their rights to freedom of opinion and expression, as well as the necessity of the immediate release of the disappeared and forcibly detained.