On July 28 2015, LaithAnzi was on his way to his religious school, in Baghdad, to sit for an exam. At 11 am, while he was talking with his parents over the phone, Anzi informed them that he was at a checkpoint controlled by the Federal Police at Al Saydiya. He was then notified that he needed a sponsor in order to go through and enter Baghdad. He was on the phone with his parents for one hour until the phone line was cut off afterwards.

Sajjad Al Mishrifawi is a prominent activist who took part in the recent anti-government protests in the Dhi Qar governorate. He was subjected to threats, along with other demonstrators. The frequency of threats received by Al Mishrifawi had escalated in the three months prior to his abduction due to his peaceful activities, such as participating in protests and posting content critical of several political parties on social media.

On April 28, 2017, Saif Abdullah was abducted by ISIL from his parents’ house in Al Mawsil Al Jadidah neighbourhood in Mosul. A few months later, on July 10, the city was liberated from ISIL by the Iraqi Army and the Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Units. Abdullah’s family believes that he was freed from ISIL by the Iraqi forces, who then abducted him alongside other detainees previously held by ISIL.

On June 17, 2014, Rasoul Al Janabi and his brother Omar were at their parents’ house in Madain, Baghdad when they were arrested by a group of Intelligence forces from the 42nd Brigade of the 11th Division of the Iraqi Army. While Omar was released five days after the arrest,Rasoul was accused, alongside other people, of bombing of two cars in the village of Brijan, Madain. Rasoul was never released, and his fate and whereabouts remain unknown.

On July 28,2014, Yahya Al Ezzawi was working with other construction workers at a building site in the Al Hayakil district, in the Ghazaliya neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. At around noon, he left the construction site to bring the other workers some lunch, but he never returned.

According to bystanders who witnessed the arrest, Al Ezzawi was arrested by joint forces of the Iraqi Army and Iraqi Federal Police, who were wearing their military uniforms.

On November 25, 2019, Talib Habib Al Ahmad, who normally resides in London, returned back to Basra to check in on his family’s land in the Abu Al Khaseeb district, Basra governorate. After arriving in Basra in the morning, he took a taxi to his friend’s house in Al Amitahiyah, where he stayed for the night.

On March 17, 2017, members of the Intelligence Department of the 16th Iraqi Army Division, wearing civilian clothes, raided Saif Al Islam Al Rifai’s mother’s house and abducted him. The next day, a picture of Al Rifai, handcuffed, was leaked on social media, but was later removed.

On May 12, 2017, while Monzer Al Mehdawi was working at his grocery store, unidentified members of the military, wearing uniforms, approached him and abducted him, before taking him to an unknown location. Al Mehdawi was last seen by one of his clients, who was at his store at the time of his arrest and witnessed his abduction.

Due to the uniforms worn by the perpetrators, Al Mehdawi’s family believe that he was abducted by members of the Iraqi army.