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Failure to hold armed groups accountable for killings will mar Iraq elections, HRW warns 6 Hours
Since the outbreak of protests in Iraq in October 2019, more than 80 activists have been subjected to assassination or assassination attempts. (Photo: Reuters)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – International rights watchdog Human Rights Watch warned last week about armed groups targeting journalists and activists in Iraq, noting that failing to hold them accountable could cast a shadow over the upcoming Iraqi elections and spread a climate of fear among protesters who have called for change since October 2019.
HRW said in a report published on Thursday that the failure of Iraqi authorities to take urgent steps to stop extrajudicial killings of protesters and activists would have a chilling effect, and limit the ability of Iraqis to participate in the parliamentary elections scheduled for Oct. 10.
President Joe Biden faced a fresh call to fully end “forever wars” after his administration released former President Donald Trump’s secret rules regarding the use of lethal strikes outside of designated war zones.
The Biden administration released the partly-redacted 11-page document, “Principles, Standards, and Procedures for U.S. Direct Action Against Terrorist Targets,” late Friday to the ACLU and
New York Times, which had both filed transparency lawsuits to see the guidelines.
Biden suspended the rules once he took office, the
Timesreported, and began a review of them in March. That move prompted Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s national security project, to urge not a “review” but an end to the program. “Tinkering with the bureaucracy of this extrajudicial killing program will only entrench American abuses,” she said at the time.
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Common Dreams: President Joe Biden faced a fresh call to fully end “forever wars” after his administration released former President Donald Trump’s secret rules regarding the use of lethal strikes outside of designated war zones.
The Biden administration released the partly-redacted 11-page document, “Principles, Standards, and Procedures for U.S. Direct Action Against Terrorist Targets,” late Friday to the ACLU and
New York Times, which had both filed transparency lawsuits to see the guidelines.
Biden suspended the rules once he took office, the
Times reported, and began a review of them in March. That move prompted Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s national security project, to urge not a “review” but an end to the program. “Tinkering with the bureaucracy of this extrajudicial killing program will only entrench American abuses,” she said at the time.
RE: PLIGHT OF UKRAINIANS ARBITRARILY HELD IN NORTHEAST SYRIA
Dear Minister Kuleba, Human Rights Watch writes to call on your government to bring home or help repatriate, as a matter of urgent priority, the estimated 40 Ukrainian women, and children arbitrarily and indefinitely held in camps in northeast Syria (NES) as Islamic State (ISIS) suspects and family members. These citizens, a majority of them children, some as young as 2.5, are among nearly 14,000 non-Iraqi foreigners who have been detained by the armed forces of the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of NES since the fall of ISIS self-declared caliphate on March 23, 2019, and in some cases longer.