Lebanese authorities launch ‘homicide’ investigation after al-Alwani’s physique is present in an house in Beirut.
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Former Iraqi lawmaker Ahmed al-Alwani has been discovered useless in an house within the Lebanese capital, Beirut, based on a safety supply, prompting a “homicide” investigation.
The supply, who spoke to Al Jazeera on Tuesday, didn’t disclose how al-Alwani had died.
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The official Nationwide Information Company described al-Awani’s dying as a “homicide” and stated authorities in Lebanon have launched an investigation.
It stated al-Alwani’s physique was present in an house within the Tariq Al-Jadeeda neighbourhood of Beirut on Monday.
In line with NNA, Choose Ahmed Rami al-Hajj will oversee the investigation by Lebanon’s Inner Safety Forces.
In a press release on X, al-Alwani’s workplace referred to as the previous lawmaker’s dying an “assassination” and a “treacherous crime”.
It referred to as for an investigation and accountability for the perpetrators.
“This isn’t a passing incident to be brushed apart with condolences and condemnation,” it stated. “It’s a crime that calls for a agency official response and a clear investigation that reveals who deliberate it, who carried it out and who else was concerned. Whoever is behind it, nobody is above accountability.”
A Lebanese judicial supply, in the meantime, advised the AFP information company that preliminary findings point out al-Alwani was strangled to dying and {that a} Lebanese nationwide suspected of involvement has been arrested.
The official stated authorities are searching for two Syrian suspects nonetheless at massive. He added that the suspects had taken al-Alwani from the airport to his lodge when he arrived in Beirut final week.
A Sunni politician, al-Alwani previously represented the western province of Anbar in Iraq’s parliament. He rose to prominence in the course of the protests of 2012 and 2013 in opposition to the Shia-led authorities of then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
He was arrested in December 2013 throughout a safety raid on his house in Ramadi, throughout which his brother and several other others had been killed.
Al-Alwani was sentenced to dying in 2014 on “terrorism” prices, however was launched in April 2025 underneath Iraq’s Normal Amnesty Legislation after greater than a decade in detention.
Iraq’s Ambassador to Lebanon Mohammed Reda al-Husseini stated the embassy was following the case carefully.
He stated the embassy is awaiting the ultimate report from the Lebanese safety businesses to “disclose the circumstances of the crime”.
