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    Iraq Executions - 2018

    Iraq Executes 11 Convicted Of 'terrorism': Ministry

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    Iraq has executed 13 people including 11 convicted on charges relating to "terrorism", the justice ministry said Monday. They included individuals responsible for car bombings, "killings of security forces personnel" and kidnappings, it said in a statement, but did not specify dates, locations or other details on the attacks.

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    Iraq begins execution of death row inmates, starts with 12 in response to IS killings

    By Kosar Nawzad
    Kurdistan 24

    ERBIL – The Iraqi government has begun executing condemned terrorists whose appeals have been exhausted, started with twelve overnight, in response to the kidnapping and killing of eight members of the security forces.

    “Based on the directive of the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, twelve convicted terrorists whose sentences had passed the decisive stage were executed on Thursday,” read the statement the Prime Minister’s office released on Friday.

    The swift executions were carried out after Abadi ordered “just retribution” against those on death row on terrorism charges – notably Islamic State (IS) members – after eight members of the Iraqi security forces were kidnapped and killed after a three-day deadline for the release of Sunni female prisoners was passed.

    There are some 300 people on Iraq’s death row, 100 of them foreign nationals who were convicted of affiliation to a terrorist group. The move, while popular among Iraqis, is likely to raise concerns among international and local rights groups.

    Baghdad earlier this week had rejected demands by IS to release Sunni female prisoners. The eight hostages, who were forced to identify themselves as policemen and militia fighters in what is one of the only videos IS released since its defeat in Iraq late last year.

    Brigadier-General Yahya Rasool, a spokesperson for the Iraqi army’s Joint Operations Command (JOC), on Monday said he had seen the IS video, released on June 23, and stressed authorities were working on finding the location of the hostages.

    Efforts to rescue the men, however, ultimately failed, after Iraqi security forces found the captives’ bodies, dismembered and dumped by the roadside on Wednesday in Salahuddin Province’s Tuz Khurmatu district.

    Following news of the discovery of the corpses, the Iraqi Prime Minister promised to avenge the deaths of the IS hostages.

    “Our security and military forces will take forceful revenge against these terrorist cells,” Abadi told senior military officials and ministers, according to Al Jazeera. “We promise that we will kill or arrest those who committed this crime.”

    Baghdad is currently conducting trials for hundreds of foreign women and children who have been detained by Iraqi troops during military operations to liberate the country from the grip of the militants over the past year.

    Following the emergence of the extremist group in Iraq and Syria in 2014, thousands of foreign nationals joined IS. Accompanying them were women and children who came from different parts of the world.

    According to Iraq’s counterterrorism law, aiding or membership in the extremist group carries the penalty of life in prison or death.

    Despite Abadi himself declaring a “final victory” over IS last December, the group continues to carry out random bombings, assassinations, and kidnappings in previously liberated areas and in disputed areas where the security situation has significantly deteriorated since the forced withdrawal of Kurdish Peshmerga forces in October last year.

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    Iraq says six ‘criminals’ executed

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    BAGHDAD: Six “criminals” were executed by hanging in Iraq this week, the justice ministry said on on Thursday, without specifying if they were extremists.

    The ministry, in a statement, said they were put to death for having “shed the blood of Iraqis” after their appeals were rejected and the sentences ratified by the presidency.

    It did not elaborate or identify any of the six who were hanged or say when they were executed.

    A ministry spokesman questioned by AFP said only that the six were “terrorists” − a term used by Iraqi authorities to mean anyone sentenced to death.

    But forensic sources said at least one of them was a Syrian national, while two were Iraqis.

    In June, Iraq executed 13 extremists after the Daesh group claimed responsibility for the murder of eight civilians whose bodies were found along the highway north of Baghdad.

    At the time the justice ministry said the 13 convicts put to death at a prison in southern Iraq “had participated in armed operations with terrorist groups, in kidnappings, bombings and murders of civilians”.

    It also said that another group of 64 convicts could be put to death as well after they lost an appeal for a stay of execution.

    Iraq launched an air strike on a gathering of Daesh fighters in neighbouring Syria, killing members of the hardline militant group who planned cross-border attacks, its military said on Thursday.

    F-16 fighter jets bombed and destroyed an “operations room” where the militants were meeting. Daesh, which once occupied a third of Iraq’s territory, has been largely defeated in the country but still poses a threat along its border with Syria.

    “According to intelligence, those terrorists who were killed were planning criminal operations using suicide vests and intended to target innocents in the next few days inside Iraq,” the military said in a statement.

    The Iraqi military has carried out several air strikes against Islamic State in Syria since last year, with the approval of President Bashar Al-Assad and the US-led coalition fighting the militants.

    http://gulftoday.ae/portal/6db071b4-...0ba3f5194.aspx

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    Iraq says seven men convicted of 'terrorism' executed

    By IRAK and AFP

    NASSIRIYA (IRAK) (AFP) - Iraq executed by hanging seven of its citizens convicted of "terrorism", the head of the health ministry in the southern province of Dhi Qar said on Monday.

    Doctor Abdel Hassan al-Jabri said the bodies of the seven men were handed over on Monday to the morgue of the state hospital of Nassiriya, the provincial capital.

    They had been tried and convicted on charges of "terrorism", he said.

    In December last year Iraq declared "victory" over the Islamic State group after a three-year war against the jihadists who once controlled nearly one third of the country.

    In June, Iraq executed 13 jihadists after IS claimed responsibility for the murder of eight civilians.

    Iraq has repeatedly faced criticism from international human rights groups over the high number of death sentences handed down by its anti-terrorist courts.

    In 2017, at least 111 convicts were hanged in Iraq and this year 44 people have been executed.

    https://www.france24.com/en/20180910...orism-executed

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