Beirut, Nov 10. (dpa/GNA) – Former Iraqi lawmaker, Ahmed al-Alwani, was found murdered in Beirut, judicial sources told dpa on Tuesday, four days after he went missing.
MTV Lebanon, citing its own sources, reported that his body was discovered in a flat in the capital’s Tariq al-Jdideh neighbourhood, where he had been lured and strangled. The judicial sources told dpa that investigators were working to establish the circumstances of the killing and identify those responsible.
Saudi-owned Al Hadath television earlier reported, citing its sources, that four people had visited al-Alwani at his Beirut hotel before he disappeared.
Iraqi Ambassador to Lebanon, Mohammed Redha al-Husseini, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA) on Tuesday that the Lebanese judiciary had opened an investigation into the murder, and appointed a special judge to oversee the case. “We are in contact with the Lebanese security agencies, to follow up on the circumstances surrounding al-Alwani’s murder, and are awaiting the final report from the Lebanese security agencies to disclose the circumstances of the crime,” al-Husseini said.
The Iraqi Embassy in Lebanon earlier said, the ambassador was personally following the case, and was in direct contact with Lebanese security agencies and al-Alwani’s family.
Media reports said al-Alwani’s family had told the embassy, they had lost contact with him four days earlier. His mobile phones were said to have been switched off, and even his bodyguards had been unable to reach him.
The identities and motives of those responsible remain unclear.
Al-Alwani represented the western province of Anbar in Iraq’s parliament. A Sunni politician, he rose to prominence during protests against the government of then-prime minister Nouri al-Maliki in 2012 and 2013.
He was arrested in December 2013 during a security raid on his home in Ramadi, in which his brother and several others were killed.
Sentenced to death in 2014 on terrorism charges, he was released in April 2025 under Iraq’s General Amnesty Law, after more than a decade in detention.
Following his release, al-Alwani returned to public life and met political figures, including Kurdish leaders in Erbil in August 2025.
GNA