On April 20, 2006, high school student Al Abbasi was shopping for stationery and books at the Al-Tarbiya bookshop, in Baghdad, when Iraqi Army forces raided the establishment. Al Abbasi was arrested alongside an employee of the bookshop. They were both forced into a military car and driven to an unknown destination. Since that day, Al Abbasi’s fate and whereabouts remain unknown.
On the day of his arrest, Al Abbasi’s family reported his disappearance to the Al Maydan police station in Baghdad, but to no avail. Six months later, Al Abassi’s family reported his disappearance to the Iraqi Human Rights Parliamentary and the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights, again, to no avail.
On July 27, 2022, MENA Rights Group and the Iraqi War Crimes Documentation Center requested the intervention of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.
