Iraq: Preparations to Confine Families in Camp

Expand The beginnings of a gate erected in Jadah 5 camp intended to enclose a section of the camp to prevent free movement.  © 2019 Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch (Erbil) – A local Iraqi organization managing a camp for displaced people is making preparations to unlawfully confine families scheduled to be transferred from northeast Syria, Human Rights Watch said today. The Jadah 5 camp, 65 kilometers south of Mosul, has forcibly relocated 175 families from one sector of the camp to another in order to make room for the families, mostly women and children. Iraqi authorities have previously…

© Human Rights Watch - samedi 20 juillet 2019