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While much of Iraq was celebrating the end of 2016, Nibras, the younger sister of kidnapped Iraqi freelance journalist Afrah Shawqi, was desperately waiting to get any news of her fate.

Afrah, a mother of two young boys, was kidnapped from her home in southern Baghdad by between eight and 15 gunmen late on 26 December. The kidnappers forced Afrah to go with them after they took some money, laptops and mobile phones. They also left with her private car.

Since then, the Iraqi security authorities and her family have given little in the way of information relating to the investigations into the kidnapping.

"Time has stopped since the masked gunmen forced Afrah to leave with them. Our hearts have been hanging on for the mobile phone to ring since then, and we do not know how this nightmare will end," Nibras told Middle East Eye.

"Afra's boys, Yossif [13 years old] and Younis [10 years old], have been asking me about her every few minutes. They ask if she will come back soon. I have no answer to this," Nibras said.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/criminal-kidnappings-become-big-business-baghdad-162081868