– My brother has been murdered in the most brutal way.
A crying woman approached last week to the Extra Leaf in the hope to learn more about the background of her 50-year-old brother, Firas El-Jabory, was recently found dead in his parents ‘ estate in the district of Al-Kadhimiya in the northern part of Baghdad in Iraq.
The Danish citizen raised in the beginning of november, to Baghdad in Iraq in order to sell the house and raise capital for a restaurant, which he would establish in Denmark.
At one point, he was – according to the family – almost by coincidence, in one of the last few weeks, the many demonstrations against the Iraqi government.
– But Firas is not politically active. He has never been. He participated, because some friends coaxed him, ” says Amal El-Jabory.
Now is Firas El-Jabory death, and his family in Copenhagen has received, what his sister describes as ‘terrible images’ of his body.
A 50-year-old Danish citizen is found torturet dead in his private residence in Iraq. His family in Denmark reports that he recently participated in a government-critical demonstration (the picture here is from one of the weekend’s protests) in Baghdad. Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP
the Extra Leaf has seen the pictures of the man’s brutally mangled corpse, and it gennemrodede space, family members in Iraq found him in four days after his arrival to Baghdad.
But in respect for the deceased and out of respect for the family’s safety, we respect Amal El-Jaborys desire not to publish the pictures.
– Firas had been horribly tortured. His one arm and wrist were broken, who was poured acid over his back, and his body was mutilated with a pair of scissors and stabbed with a knife. He had also been shot in the head and the legs, explains the killed sister, Amal El-Jabory.
It is also clear from the images that Firas El-Jaborys fingernails were torn off in connection with the violent ill-treatment.
Udenrigsministerets pressevagt confirms that the ministry is informed about the described case of Iraq’, but refers otherwise to the obligation of professional secrecy, which always applies in a personal case.
New crowds of enraged iraqis demonstrated on Sunday against prime minister Adil Abdul Mahdi and crisis-ridden country’s government on Khallani Square, Baghdad. Photo: Sabah Arar/Ritzau Scanpix
Amal El-Jabory notes that the killing was put in handcuffs.
– We don’t know who is behind, but we have a strong suspicion that it is a militia that supports the iraqi government, says Amal El-Jabory.as also has been addressed to the Copenhagen Police.
– the Police does not know what can be done, says the 40-year-old woman.
Amal El-Jabory tells her that her mother and brothers two days after the Jiras El-Jaborys death in Iraq to take leave and to arrange the killing dane’s funeral.
They were interrogated by the iraqi police. But the investigation in drabssagen according to the deceased’s family not thrown in the arrests of himself.
– It is so corrupt, what is going on in the country’s political system. You can’t rely on anyone, and my message to tell about the death of my brother is that it is fatal to stay in Iraq. It is a pure hell, ” says Amal El-Jabory.
Jiras El-Jabory lived in Denmark for a long number of years. The trained furniture designer has been with both a Danish and an iraqi woman and has four children.
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Massedødsfald in Iraq: the Fatal protest
It is often fatal to act as a political activist in Iraq. Here, give one of the weekend’s demonstrators the gas with a dramatic tale of one of Bagdas key strokes. Photo: Sabah Arar/Ritzau Scanpix
at Least 319 people have, in the course of the past few weeks lost their lives and up to 15.000 incurred injury in connection with violent anti-government demonstrations around Iraq.
It informs the iraqi parliament ‘Human Rights Committee’ according to the u.s. news channel CNN.
Especially the capital city Baghdad has been ravaged by deadly battles between police and protesters, who have been torched tents and have been forced back by using tear gas.
It is perceived as the biggest wave of protests since the dictator Saddam Hussein’s fall in 2003.
‘This is a revolution’
– It is a revolution that is in progress. So violent is it. And I really hope that the world will keep an eye on the situation and the violence to which the population is exposed, says the Danish Amal El-Jabory, whose brother was found killed in Baghdad recently.
the Demonstrators have taken to the streets in rebellion against what they perceive as widespread corruption in the Iraqi government and the inadequate supply of water and electricity in the economically hard-pressed country.
They have called for prime minister Adil Abdul Mahdis and his government’s resignation and the publication of an early general election, which can purify the air in the iraqi toppolitik.
Sikkerhedspolitiets response has been, hard against hard, and the crisis has among other things led to the closures of the internet and the curfew.