{"id":254438,"date":"2026-08-18T13:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/254438\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:22:08","slug":"shafaq-news-human-trafficking-cases-drop-20-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/254438\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafaq News..Human-trafficking cases drop 20% in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iraqi courts registered 167 human-trafficking cases in July, down 20% from 209 in June<\/a>, while suicide cases fell to 16 from 18, the Supreme Judicial Council reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Basra recorded the most trafficking cases at 73, followed by Baghdad\u2019s Al-Karkh with 21 and Al-Rusafa with 19. No such cases were registered in Nineveh, Najaf, Dhi Qar, Al-Muthanna, or Karbala.<\/p>\n

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Nineveh also reported the most suicide cases at five, followed by Kirkuk with three. Al-Rusafa, Diyala, and Al-Qadisiyah recorded two each, while Al-Karkh and Wasit reported one apiece.<\/p>\n

Read more: Iraq\u2019s rising suicide cases<\/a><\/p>\n

384 residency-law violations occured in July, up 65% from 233 in June. Al-Rusafa accounted for 233 cases, Al-Karkh 88, and Wasit 28. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-18T12:58:38+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraqi courts registered 167 human-trafficking cases in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,22791,70298,94],"class_list":["post-254438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-breaking","tag-human-trafficking","tag-human-trafficking-cases-drop-20-in-iraq","tag-iraq"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117116727949707289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}