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Update: Iraq – Family members of human rights defender Ayad Muayyad Salih released from incommunicado detention posted on: 2010/12/02

On 29 November 2010 the father and brother of human rights defender Mr Ayad Muayyad Salih were released from prison.

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Mr Muayyad Salih Ahmed (aged 60 years) and Mr Ra'ed Muayyad Salih (aged 28 years) were held in incommunicado detention at a prison in Mosul for 35 days. At the time of their arrest no warrant was issued, and they were not formally charged.

Ayad Muayyad Salih is an active member of the Iraqi Institution for Development, a local NGO in Nineveh which works voluntarily to defend human rights in cooperation with others including the United Nations Bureau in Iraq. Mr Salih has been engaged in documenting and reporting on violations by the army especially in Nineveh/Mosul.

Front Line welcomes the release of Muayyad Salih Ahmed and his son Ra'ed Muayyad Salih but remains very concerned for the physical and psychological integrity of human rights defender Ayad Muayyad Salih who is remains in hiding since the arrest of his father and brother.

Iraq: Residence of human rights defender Mr Ayad Muayyad Salih attacked by Iraqi armyposted on: 2010/11/04

On 26 October 2010 at 3:30am, an Iraqi Army squad broke in to the house of human rights defender Mr Ayad Muayyad Salih in Al-Faysaleya quarter of Mosul city in order to arrest him.

Dublin: Front Line launches "Iraq - The Untold Story" a new collection of testimonies by Iraqi human rights defenders posted on: 2008/09/10

Today in Dublin Front Line launched "Iraq - The Untold Story" a collection of personal testimonies by 13 Iraqi human rights defenders. The report was launched by Professor William Schabas, Head of the Irish Centre for Human Rights in the National University of Ireland Galway, and Ms. Shahlaa Hishmat an Iraqi journalist and human rights defender who is living in exile in Ireland.

Iraq: Attack against women's rights organisation, Asudaposted on: 2008/05/14

Front Line is deeply concerned following a gun attack against women's rights organisation, Asuda, on 11 May 2008. Founded in 2000, Asuda is a non-governmental organisation based in Sulaymaniyah that provides protection for women victims of domestic violence.

Iraq: Attack and subsequent death of human rights defender and journalist Shihab Al-Timimiposted on: 2008/02/29

Front Line is deeply concerned following the attack on and subsequent death of human rights defender and journalist Shihab Al-Timimi, aged seventy-five years old. Shihab Al-Timimi was the head of the Iraqi Journalists' Union as well as a renowned campaigner for the right to freedom of expression in Iraq.

Front Line mourns the death of Iraqi journalist Sahar Al-Haidariposted on: 2007/06/08

Front Line is greatly saddened to learn about the murder of the Iraqi journalist, Sahar Al-Haidari in her home town of Mosul on 7 June 2007. She was the mother of three children and worked as a news reporter for Iraq Voices, a news agency based in Mosul, the National Iraq News Agency - Nina and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Sahar Al-Haidari is the third journalist to be killed in Iraq in the last two weeks. Read more on Article 19 website