Dutch Supreme Court upholds supplier conviction

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.

Iran, Iraq and the ICRC agreed to cooperate in clarifying missing-person cases from the war. This entry uses the announcement date.

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.

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

Iranian survivor associations presented an exhibit at the OPCW, bringing the human consequences of chemical attacks into an international disarmament forum.

An ICRC-documented operation repatriated the remains of Iranian soldiers killed in the war at the Shalamcha border, continuing the search for answers long after the ceasefire.

The European Court of Human Rights declared Frans van Anraat’s application inadmissible. The case concerned his conviction for assisting chemical attacks, including attacks in Iran.

Iranian authorities visited ICRC headquarters in Geneva and received documents relating to the 1980-88 war as part of the Imam Sajjad project.