Prisoners of Conscience Najaf Iraq Ayatollah Khalkhali

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PrisonersofIraq
March 24, 2008

In the days following the arrest of the Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qassem al-Kho'I, Shi'a Islam's most senior cleric, by Iraqi government forces, a total of 108 people, including theology students, aides, staff and family members of the Grand Ayatollah, were detained.
Shi'a Muslims, together with other religious, racial and ethnic groups in Iraq, such as Kurds, Turcomans and Assyrians, have been the victims of continuous and serious human rights violations for many years. The arrest and subsequent "disappearance" of the Shi'a clerics, students and relatives of
the Grand Ayatollah, took place in the context of the brutal suppression by Iraqi forces of the uprising
which swept across the country in the weeks following the defeat of the Iraqi army in the Gulf War.

Sixty-three year old Al-Sayyid Khalkhali had studied religion at the University of al-Najaf before becoming one of its senior scholars and an aide to the Grand Ayatollah Khoie. He is married with six children, all of whom have been denied any knowledge as to his whereabouts. Despite numerous requests for information about the conditions of the 106 detainees by international organisations and
various Special Rapporteurs to Iraq, the Government of Iraq denies any knowledge as to where they are. In the meanwhile, the grave possibility of torture and execution remains.

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may he rest in peace, this whole world is full of anger and full of hate, as Imam Kadhim has said "The world is beautiful from the outside like the scales of a snake, however deep within lies a deadly venom." YA MUNTATHA wen will u appear?

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