The Iraqi ambassador to Beirut, Muhammad Redha Al-Husseini, announced that the Lebanese judiciary had opened an investigation into the case of the killing of former Iraqi MP Ahmed Al-Alwani in the Lebanese capital, and assigned a special judge to follow up on the circumstances of the incident.
An Iraqi security source had reported, in a statement to the BBC, that former MP Ahmed Al-Alwani was found murdered inside an apartment in the New Road area in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, four days after his kidnapping, without the circumstances of the incident becoming clear.
Al-Husseini said, in a statement to the official Iraqi News Agency, that the Iraqi embassy in Beirut is in contact with the Lebanese security services to follow up on the circumstances of Al-Alwani’s killing.
He added that the embassy is awaiting the final report of the Lebanese security services to reveal the circumstances of the crime.
The Iraqi embassy in Lebanon said that it had received a report from the Lebanese security services that a body had been found inside an apartment in Tariq al-Jdeideh, and that it had been transferred to Zahle Governmental Hospital in the Bekaa.
The embassy added, in a statement, that the Iraqi Ambassador, Muhammad Redha al-Husseini, and an advance team from it had gone to the hospital, accompanied by a member of the Alwani family, to inspect the body.
She indicated that the discriminatory public prosecutor in Lebanon requested a DNA test to definitively confirm whether the body belonged to Alwani, confirming the formation of a cell at the embassy to follow up investigations and communicate with the Lebanese security and judicial services.
The Public Prosecutor at the Court of Cassation in Lebanon, Judge Ahmed Rami Al-Hajj, is following up on the preliminary investigations into the circumstances of the killing of former Iraqi MP Ahmed Al-Alwani, and directly supervising the investigations conducted by the Information Division of the Internal Security Forces to uncover the circumstances of the crime.
The National News Agency reported that investigations aim to determine the circumstances of the incident, while preliminary information circulated by local media indicated that there were suspicions about Alwani being lured to an apartment in Beirut, after leaving the hotel where he was staying in the Raouche area.
The information added that security indicators suggested that he was killed inside the apartment.
Anwar Al-Alwani, the cousin of former Iraqi MP Ahmed Al-Alwani, also confirmed to Al-Nahar that Ahmed Al-Alwani was killed and his body was definitively identified.
He pointed out that the family is awaiting the completion of preliminary Lebanese investigations to find out the causes and motives of the crime, and whether it was criminal or had other motives behind it.
In this context, an Iraqi security delegation is expected to arrive in Beirut within the next few hours, to follow up and participate in the investigations.
Ahmed Al-Alwani is considered one of the most prominent political figures who emerged in Anbar Governorate, western Iraq. He served as a member of the House of Representatives for the Iraqi List, and was one of the most prominent supporters of the protests that the governorate witnessed in 2013 against the government of former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
The Iraqi security forces arrested him in December 2013, during a raid on his home in the city of Ramadi, which resulted in the killing of his brother and others, before judicial rulings were issued against him, including a death sentence in 2014.
Al-Alwani was released in April 2025, after more than eleven years in detention, following legal proceedings related to his case and the general amnesty law.
Who is Ahmed Alwani?
Ahmed Al-Alwani is an Iraqi politician and former representative of Anbar Governorate, west of the country. He served as a member of the Iraqi Parliament as a representative of the “Iraqiya” list, which was headed by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
His name emerged in the Iraqi political scene during the protests that took place in Anbar Governorate in late 2012, with the participation of opponents of the government of former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, against the backdrop of political demands and criticism of the performance of the central government.
Al-Alwani was one of the most prominent supporters of the protest movement in the governorate, as tensions escalated between the protesters and the central government in Baghdad.
On December 28, 2013, an Iraqi security force arrested Alwani during a raid on his home in the city of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar Governorate, which included armed clashes between the security force and his guards.
The clashes resulted in the killing of his brother Ali Alwani and a number of people, including members of the security force, according to media reports covering the incident.
