The legal system in Lebanon is investigating the murder of the former Iraqi member of parliament in Beirut.
Muhammad Reza al-Husseini, Iraq's ambassador in Beirut, announced that the Lebanese judicial system has opened an investigation into the murder of Ahmed Alwani, a former member of the Iraqi parliament, in the Lebanese capital, and appointed a special judge to follow up on the details of this incident.
An Iraqi security source told BBC Arabic that the body of Ahmed Alwani, a former member of parliament, was found four days after his abduction in an apartment in the Tariq al-Jadida area of Beirut; Although the details and how this event happened are not yet known.
Al-Husseini told Iraq's official news agency that the Iraqi embassy in Beirut is in contact with Lebanese security agencies to track the dimensions of al-Alwani's murder. According to this Iraqi source, the embassy is waiting to receive the final report of the Lebanese security services to clarify the details of this crime.
Ahmed Alwani was one of the prominent political figures of Anbar province in Iraq and one of the critics of Iran's intrusion into this country. He worked as a member of parliament from the "Al-Iraqiyya List" and was one of the main supporters of the interceptions that took place in this province in 2013 against the government of Nouri Maliki, the former prime minister of Iraq.
He was arrested in December 2013, during an attack by Iraqi security forces on his home in the city of Ramadi, in which his brother and several others were killed. Subsequently, several judicial sentences were issued against him, including a death sentence in 2014.
Alwani was released in April 2025, after more than eleven years in prison and following legal proceedings related to his case and citing the amnesty law.