European court rejects van Anraat application

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.

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.

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

Iran’s OPCW proposal outlined an international support network, including medical-needs information, research and voluntary assistance for chemical-weapons victims.

Iran returned the remains of 38 Iraqi soldiers, according to an Iraqi ministry release reproduced in the ICRC’s customary-law database. The act addressed war-dead recovery.

OPCW Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü visited Iranian medical facilities and met chemical-attack survivors during talks with Iran’s foreign minister.

Iraq handed over the remains of 17 Iranian soldiers, according to an Iraqi ministry release preserved in the ICRC database. Returning remains did not resolve every missing-person case.