Investigative Reports
The Demographic Change Haunts Minorities in the Nineveh Plain
Since Imad Zuhair (a pseudonym, 47 years old) returned to Qaraqosh, the center of the Hamdaniya district in the Nineveh Plain, after it was liberated from ISIS in late 2016, he has not stopped thinking about leaving the country as soon as he finds a suitable opportunity for himself and his small family, a wife and two daughters (9 and 11 years old). Like thousands of others, he was forced to flee to Erbil on August 7, 2014, after ISIS militants took control of the area and gave the residents two options: either pay the poultry farm (a tax) and…
Marginalization policies and lack of justice… The Yezidis of Sheikhan
After spending nearly four decades in Sheikhan, Hadi Dubbani (57 years old) left the country with his family, leaving the Yezidi town located north of Mosul to settle in Germany, as did dozens of his relatives. He says in a choked voice: "ISIS destroyed everything for us, it turned our lives upside down. I even left the land I never imagined I would leave. Many things pushed us to this decision: security, fear for the future, discrimination, and the absence of justice." Dubbani, who held the position of director of the Yezidi Endowment in Duhok Governorate in the Kurdistan Region…
Documents Found After the Fall of Assad Show Syrian Intelligence
A file discovered at General Intelligence Directorate headquarters details an operation to investigate SIRAJ, a Syrian journalist collective that is part of the OCCRP network.
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Basmaya’s sky is polluted… How do thousands of citizens live?
Abu Muhammad (45 years old), who lives in the Basmaya city, southeast of Baghdad, complains about the gas emissions emitted by the factories of the neighboring area of Abu Thila, which cover the sky of the city and its surroundings. Abu Muhammad, who works as a freelancer, suffers from shortness…
Due to cancerous diseases, a civil movement is about to
Residents of the neighborhoods surrounding the “Samawa Cement” factory, which has failed to implement environmental standards, have been complaining for several years about the spread of many diseases as a result of dust and gas emissions, which poses a permanent threat to their lives, especially after the expansion of its…
Four years after the Tishreen massacres.. The killer is free
Four years after the October 2019 demonstrations, which began to end the corruption system that brought a quarter of the country’s population to the brink of poverty, those involved in the killings escaped punishment, the database of victims disappeared, and the wounded continued to suffer in silence. “He sat in…
Sexual Harassment in Universities: Silence in Academic Campuses about the
The law is lenient and society often sees the victim as the perpetrator Shatha (30 years old, a pseudonym) entered a master’s program after excelling in her undergraduate studies at a university in Baghdad. While working as a teaching assistant and ranking among the top students, she initially believed achieving…
11,000 families in the agony of waiting… What is the
Nawzat Shamdine – translated by Walaa Rayya Souad Ahmed (63 years old) spends hours of her day in her missing son’s (Amjad) bedroom, talking to his pictures and smelling his clothes. Then she spreads her prayer mat on the floor, and with a crying voice, she prays for him to…
Suicide in Iraq … the Cover-Up for Femecide and a
Ahmad Al Rabihi and Hassan Al Nassiri / November 2020: 08.09.2The Iraqi police received a report recently of a bride’s suicide one day after her marriage, found hanging from a rope bound from the ceiling of her room … This investigation reveals the reasons for the escalation of suicides in Iraq,…
Journalists in a Coffin, Killers on the Loose
In the course of about a decade, Mosul witnessed the assassination of some 82 journalists and media employees, not including the ones that disappeared at the hands of ISIS. “All cases of targeting and assassinating journalists in Nineveh until 2014 were registered against unknown persons, no criminals were ever identified.”
From a border crossing to a center… Iraqi Kurdistan is
Salah Baban – translated by Walaa Rayya: “Naz Ali” (27 years old) never imagined that the man she fell in love with and married, Farshad Anayat, who had come to Sulaymaniyah from Kermanshah, Iran, was a professional drug dealer. The Iranian young man presented himself to her as a researcher…
