Reported: 4 Oct 2026
Urgency: Context · Evidence: Primary source
Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council released August 2026 court statistics on October 4, reporting 183 cases concerning human-trafficking offences in appellate-court registries. This is an aggregate count of registered cases, not a verified count of victims, convictions or the underlying incidence of trafficking.
What the sources establish
The council directly reports 183 registered cases. Shafaq relays the same release and is not independent verification of the case register. No underlying records or independent incidence assessment were inspected. A July comparison in Shafaq is omitted because this primary release does not provide it. Midnight UTC represents the October 4 release date, not an August incident or an exact publication time; the primary clock has no explicit UTC offset. The country marker is representative. Names, victim identities and local case concentrations are excluded; no nationality or migration status is inferred.
Evidence last checked: 4 Oct 2026 09:14 UTC.
Location precision: country. The map point is a reference, not a live position.
Unavailable — First published with explicit source roles, evidence limitations and representative mapping.
Sources
- Iraq Supreme Judicial Council
primary judicial-media release of August court registration statistics
- Shafaq News
local reporting relaying the same council statistics; not independent corroboration