ICRC announces missing-persons cooperation agreement

The ICRC handed the remains of two Iraqi soldiers killed in the Iran-Iraq War to British authorities at a Basra warehouse, preserving a humanitarian channel after Iraq’s invasion.

The Court rejected the U.S. security justification for the attacks, but did not uphold Iran’s treaty-commerce claim. It also dismissed the U.S. counterclaim.

The Hague District Court convicted Frans van Anraat of complicity in war crimes for supplying a mustard-gas precursor to Iraq and sentenced him to fifteen years. He was acquitted of complicity in...

OPCW material for 29 April remembrance described the continuing effects of Iraq’s chemical attacks in Iran and the medical experience developed in treating survivors.

The Hague Court of Appeal upheld van Anraat’s war crimes complicity conviction and increased his sentence to seventeen years. The case concerned chemical attacks including those on Iranian victims.

Officials received training in Tehran from the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team to improve identification of recovered remains. Only the month is established.

An international medical-defense course concluded in Iran. Visiting doctors met and examined survivors of chemical warfare, connecting wartime experience with medical training.

An ICRC-documented border handover returned remains from the war. The exchange included 41 Iranian and 200 Iraqi soldiers.

The Dutch Supreme Court upheld van Anraat’s war crimes complicity conviction. It reduced his seventeen-year sentence by six months because of the length of proceedings.

An ICRC forensic adviser attended exhumations of people missing from the Iran-Iraq War in Basra and Nasiriyah at the Iraqi authorities’ invitation.