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    Iraq Shelves Death Sentence Of German Woman Who Joined IS

    An Iraqi court has lifted the death penalty handed to a German woman for belonging to the Islamic State jihadist group, sentencing her to life in prison instead, German foreign ministry sources said Tuesday.

    The German woman of Moroccan origin, identified by German media as Lamia K., was condemned to death by hanging in January for providing “logistical support and helping the terrorist group to carry out crimes”.

    “The foreign ministry confirms that the death penalty against a German citizen in Iraq was commuted to a life sentence. The verdict is not yet final,” a ministry source told AFP.

    The woman continues to receive consular assistance from the German embassy in Baghdad, the source added.

    Lamia K. left Germany with her two daughters in 2014 to join IS.

    One of the daughters was killed while with the jihadists, a judicial source told AFP.

    Lamia K. and her other daughter were arrested by Iraqi forces during the final stages of the battle to oust IS from its stronghold Mosul last July.

    According to German news agency DPA, the commutation of her death penalty comes after Lamia K. appealed the verdict. An Iraqi life sentence usually translates to 20 years in jail, or 15 years with good behaviour, DPA added.

    While hundreds of foreign suspected jihadists are being held by Iraqi authorities, Lamia K. was believed to have been the first European woman sentenced to death in the country for links to IS.

    Her surviving daughter, in her early 20s, was given a one-year jail term for illegal entry into Iraq, Die Welt daily reported.

    In February, a 17-year-old German teenager was sentenced to six years in prison for membership of IS and illegally crossing into Iraq.

    Iraqi authorities announced the defeat of IS last December after a gruelling three-year battle.

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    Alleged ISIS Fighter Accused of Killing Iraqi Police Officer Arrested in Sacramento

    By Joe Khalil
    Fox40

    SACRAMENTO -- An alleged ISIS member suspected of killing an Iraqi police officer in 2014 was arrested Wednesday in Sacramento.

    Federal agents raided an apartment on Eastern Avenue.

    The suspect, 45-year-old Omar Abdulsatter Ameen, is accused of killing Ihsan Abdulhafiz Jasim after ISIS entered the Rawah district of the Al-Anbar province in Iraq on June 21, 2014. ISIS took control of the district, preventing people from entering or leaving.

    The next day, court documents say Ameen was a part of a four-vehicle convoy that drove to the victim's home. Jasim was shot in the chest, killing him, which ISIS announced on social media.

    A few months later in November 2014, Ameen migrated to the U.S. claiming to be a refugee, settling in Sacramento. He filed an I-485 application and when asked on his refugee application if he'd killed anyone, he answered no.

    A witness was able to identify Ameen in a photograph.

    "We were shocked," said neighbor Greg Hutson. "We couldn’t believe what was happening to be honest with you."

    Hutson lives a few doors away from Ameen. He says there is a large group of refugee families in the complex from the Middle East but did not interact much with the other families.

    "You didn’t see him come together with the rest of them, have coffee and tea together. You didn’t see him interact too much," Hutson told FOX40.

    One young girl seemed to confirm that as she translated for her father.

    "He didn’t know them well but they’re friends. Yeah, he’s a good neighbor," she said.

    She told FOX40 Ameen had four young kids, two boys and two girls. He worked as a mechanic.

    "Two factors have to be considered: whether or not this is the right person and whether or not there’s sufficient evidence to justify sending him over," said former federal prosecutor Bill Portanova.

    Portanova believes Ameen will likely be extradited back to Iraq, which the Iraqi government requested. It was an Iraqi warrant, issued May 16, that led to Ameen’s arrest.

    "The murder charge in Iraq is probably a death sentence so these attorneys will fight it," Portanova said.

    Much of the evidence proving Ameen's crime and ISIS affiliation are redacted from the unsealed court documents. That evidence, presumably, was enough to get Ameen extradited back to Iraq.

    https://fox40.com/2018/08/15/alleged...in-sacramento/

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    September 19, 2018

    Iraq Court Condemns to Death 'Deputy of IS Leader'

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    BAGHDAD — An Iraqi court on Wednesday sentenced to death on terror charges a prominent jihadist described as a deputy of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, after he was captured in Turkey.

    "The Karkh criminal court in Baghdad sentenced to death by hanging one of the most prominent leaders of IS, who served as a deputy of Baghdadi," judicial spokesman Abdel Sattar Bayraqdar said.

    The Iraqi authorities announced in February that Ismail Alwan Salman al-Ithawi had been extradited from Turkey after fleeing first Iraq and then Syria as the group's self-proclaimed "caliphate" crumbled.

    The jihadist was tracked and detained through cooperation between Turkish, Iraqi and US intelligence agencies, a senior Iraqi official told AFP at the time.

    He said the arrest came after an elite Iraqi unit hunting IS members "infiltrated the highest levels" of the jihadist group, which has claimed a string of deadly attacks in the West in recent years.

    A native of the Iraqi city of Ramadi, Ithawi was accused of holding several positions including IS "minister" in charge of religious edicts.

    Originally from Iraq, Baghdadi has been dubbed the "most wanted man on the planet" and the United States is offering a $25 million reward for his capture.

    He has been pronounced dead on several occasions, but an Iraqi intelligence official said in May that he remained alive in Syrian territory by the Iraqi border.

    In a purported new audio recording released last month, the IS chief called on Muslims to wage "jihad."

    He made his only known public appearance in Iraq's second city of Mosul in July 2014.

    Iraq has condemned several hundred people, including around 100 foreign women, to death for IS links, and dozens of convicted jihadists have already been executed.

    Many more have been handed life terms, including nine Tajik women who were sentenced by an Iraqi criminal court on Wednesday for belonging to IS, a judicial official said.

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

    Iraq declared "victory" over IS in December after a three-year war against the jihadists who once controlled nearly one third of the country as well as swathes of neighboring Syria.

    The Iraqi military has kept up operations targeting mostly remote desert areas where jihadists have continued to carry out attacks.

    Over the border in Syria, U.S.-backed fighters last week launched a fierce assault against a dwindling pocket of territory held by IS in eastern Deir Ezzor province.

    https://www.voanews.com/a/iraq-court...-/4578155.html
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    October 17, 2018

    Death sentences against six convicts involved in terrorism carried out: Ministry

    By Nehal Mostafa
    Iraqi News

    Baghdad - The Iraqi Justice Ministry has carried out death sentences against six convicts involved in terrorism charges.

    A statement by the ministry on Wednesday said “death sentences were carried out against six convicts in accordance with counter-terrorism law.”

    The ministry highlighted working on implementing the law.

    Iraqi courts have recently issued death sentences against convicts involved in explosions and killing of civilians and security personnel that have occurred over the past few years.

    On Sunday, the Central Criminal Court in Baghdad sentenced a man to death as he was caught supplying the Islamic State with explosive materials.

    Many Islamic State members were detained during liberation battles that freed cities, which were recaptured by the militant group in 2014.

    Two Islamic State members were sentenced, in September, to death over killing 12 people in Anbar.

    In December, the Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi announced gaining control on all the territories that were captured by Islamic State, since 2014. However, Security reports indicate that the militant group still poses threat against stability in the country. The group still has dormant cells, through which it carries out attacks, across Iraq like it used to do before 2014.

    https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/d...-out-ministry/

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    Moroccan Women Associated with ISIS Might Face Death Penalty in Iraq

    Moroccan women with alleged ties to ISIS will potentially face the death penalty in Iraq

    By Safaa Kasraoui
    Morocco World News

    Rabat – Morocco’s North Observatory for Human Rights (ONDH) shared a statement today on its Facebook, saying that a source at a refugee camp in northern Syria told women living in the camp, including Moroccan women, that they might be handed over to Iraqi authorities in a period of no more than six months.

    The source added that the ISIS-linked women might be subject to the death penalty.

    The statement added that women and children are suffering from dire conditions, including nutrition issues.

    ONDH also recalled that it has been calling on the Moroccan government to return Moroccan women and their children back to Morocco and try to reintegrate them in Morocco based on the requirements of the international humanitarian law.

    Throughout his recent interviews with national and international news outlets, Head of Morocco’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau (BCIJ) Abdelhak Khiame expressed concern over the threat imposed by ISIS returnees.

    According to Khiame, Morocco’s position regarding returning fighters was established in 2015, allowing police to apprehend them for investigation and place them in custody.

    Returnees typically receive sentences ranging from 10 to 15 years in prison.

    In July, Moroccan newspaper Akhbar Al Yaoum reported that Iraqi authorities wanted to extradite wives and children of Moroccans with ties to ISIS.

    In August, ONDH said that a Spanish-Moroccan security unit arrived in Syria to interview Moroccan women with alleged ties to ISIS to repatriate them.

    “The security intelligence team called the women individually and interrogated them beginning from the time they adopted the radical ideology to the moment they joined ISIS and fell in the hands of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria’s forces,” ONDH stated.

    ISIS Moroccan suspects are spread throughout the MENA region, but are mainly in Iraq, Syria and Libya.

    Khiame added that 1,666 Moroccans joined the conflicts in Iraq and Syria, of whom 929 joined ISIS.

    Nearly 225 other fighters have criminal records with terrorism-related charges.

    BCIJ’s chief added that 642 Moroccan fighters died in Syria and Iraq due to suicidal terrorist operations.

    https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/201...nalty-in-iraq/

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    Report: Jihadist born in Switzerland risks death penalty in Iraq

    Swissinfo

    An alleged jihadist born and raised in Switzerland is facing trial in the capital of Iraq, according to an investigation conducted by the 10vor10 programme and the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper.

    Iraqi troops captured the 24-year-old man, a Turkish national who grew up in Switzerland, as they regained territory from the Islamic State group.

    The man has been brought before a specialised tribunal in Baghdad where he faces the death penalty, according to an Arabic article published in a magazine of the Iraqi judicial authorities.

    The article describes the man as a native from the northeastern Swiss town of Arbon who used the battle name "Obeida" and had a Turkish first name.

    The Swiss attorney general told public broadcaster SRF that criminal proceedings were brought against this man in Switzerland in 2015 over his suspected membership in a terrorist group.

    The proceedings were suspended in December 2016 but as a precaution he has been banned from entering Switzerland.

    Federal police spokeswoman Catherine Maret told SRF: "We can do that if we have the feeling that there is a threat to internal security - which is the case here".

    The Iraqi authorities apparently quote from interrogation records in the article and refer to him as an IS member.

    The man from Switzerland had been trained in the use of weapons in a training camp in Syria.

    Afterwards, according to his testimony, he was sent to Iraq where he was asked what type of training he had.

    "I said that I worked in the field of power and electricity," the Iraqi judiciary quoted him as saying. Then follows his explosive confession: "For nine months I built the circuits for explosive charges".

    He is accused of working as a bomb maker for ISIS.

    An investigation into his childhood in Switzerland found that “Obeida” only completed elementary school and that the electronics training related to an internship of several months in this field. In Arbon, “Obeida” was apparently part of a group of jihadis.

    Rights group stress that criminal trials in Iraq do not meet Europe's constitutional standards. Judgments are usually handed down without sound evidence, trials are often very brief, the accused might not be heard, and confessions are extracted under the force of torture.

    “Obeida” reportedly has a lawyer but he has never been allowed to speak to his client. The lawyer is working to avert the execution of a death sentence.

    The man from Arbon had a C residence permit in Switzerland but no citizenship. As such, the Swiss foreign ministry has not offered him consular assistance.

    https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/isis_re...-iraq/44656924

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    Iraq leader says foreign fighters who joined ISIS could face death penalty

    As debate continues over how Western countries should deal with citizens who have gone abroad to join ISIS, Iraqi President Barham Salih says foreigners tried in Iraq for fighting with the militant group could be handed death sentences.

    The ISIS fighters "will be tried in accordance to Iraqi law and may be sentenced to death if found guilty" of killing Iraqis, Salih was quoted as saying in an interview published by Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National.

    U.S.-backed forces in Syria handed over some 280 Iraqi and foreign suspected ISIS members last month, Iraq's military said. More are expected under an agreement to transfer some 500 detainees held by U.S.-backed forces in Syria.

    Salih's remarks were the first public comments confirming that foreign ISIS fighters could face execution in Iraq.

    "There are certain cases in which some of these foreign fighters have been implicated in cases of terrorism on Iraqi soil or against Iraqi citizens. Here Iraqi law will take precedence," he said.

    'Too much to ask of Iraq'

    Iraq has said it will either help repatriate non-Iraqi ISIS detainees to their home countries, or prosecute those suspected of having committed crimes against Iraq and Iraqis.

    Under Iraqi law, ISIS members convicted of attacking Iraqis could face the death penalty.

    But the government has also said that it does not expect to have to deal with all ISIS fighters transferred from Syria.

    "To laden Iraq with this issue on behalf of the world, is too much to ask of Iraq," Salih said.

    Meanwhile, Western countries remain divided in their approach to handling citizens who joined the group. The U.K. has moved to strip citizenship from British teen Shamima Begum who joined the group at 15 with two other school girls. U.S. authorities have argued that Hoda Muthana, an American-born woman, is not in fact a citizen.

    Several countries are already working quietly to repatriate minors on a case-by-case basis. Of more than 5,000 Europeans — most from Britain, France, Germany and Belgium — who went to fight in Syria and Iraq, some 1,500 have returned, according to police agency Europol.

    'Waiting for the right time to resurge'

    For its part, Canada's Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale has said he won't put Canadian diplomats at risk in Syria to repatriate ISIS fighters.

    His office has refused to confirm whether it is preparing for the return of any Canadian citizens detained in the conflict. In a statement to CBC News, Goodale's office said Canada has "no legal obligation to facilitate their return."

    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based war monitor, has said operations are underway in eastern Syria to announce the end of ISIS there.

    But the head of the U.S. military's Central Command, Gen. Joseph Votel, said on Thursday the reduction of Islamic State's territorial footprint was a "monumental military accomplishment," but the fight was "far from over."

    "What we are seeing now is not the surrender of ISIS as an organization," he told a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives armed services committee.

    He said the group has made a "calculated decision to preserve the safety of their families" and its members are "going to ground in remote areas and waiting for the right time to resurge."

    Votel, who oversees U.S. forces in the Middle East, also said he is under no pressure to withdraw forces from Syria by any specific date, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the drawdown of most U.S. troops from Syria.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/isis-f...eath-1.5047302
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    Iraq condemns two more French IS members to death

    A Baghdad court sentenced two more Frenchmen to death Tuesday for joining the Islamic State jihadist group, raising the number of French IS members on death row in Iraq to six.

    Brahim Nejara and Karam El Harchaoui, both in their 30s, were among 12 French citizens transferred to Iraqi authorities in January by a US-backed force fighting the jihadist group in Syria.

    The court's ruling came despite France reiterating its opposition to capital punishment after a series of similar rulings this week against French citizens handed over to Baghdad.

    In recent months, Iraq has taken custody of thousands of jihadists, including foreigners, captured in neighbouring Syria by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) during the battle to destroy the IS "caliphate".

    Four other French citizens -- Kevin Gonot, Leonard Lopez, Salim Machou and Mustapha Merzoughi -- have been given death sentences in recent days by a Baghdad court.

    Nejara, 33, was involved in IS's foreign fighter operations, according to the French Terrorism Analysis Center.

    He allegedly helped foreign fighters join IS in Syria, persuaded one of his brothers to commit an attack in France, and was associated with Foued Mohamed-Aggad, one of the suicide bombers at the Bataclan theatre during the 2015 Paris attacks.

    Harchaoui, 32, left for Syria in 2014 from Belgium. According to Belgian daily HLN, his younger brother and their Belgian wives were also IS members.

    They have 30 days to appeal.

    The remaining six face trial in the coming days under a law that allows capital punishment for anyone joining a "terrorist group" -- even those who did not take up arms.

    The trials have been criticised by rights groups, which say they often rely on evidence obtained through torture.

    They have also raised the question of whether suspected IS jihadists should be tried in the region or repatriated.

    France has long insisted that its adult citizens captured in Iraq or Syria must face trial locally, refusing to repatriate them despite the risk they could receive death sentences.

    On Tuesday Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said he had reminded Iraqi President Barham Saleh that "we are opposed to the death penalty".

    "We are increasing the steps to avoid the death penalty for these four French citizens," he told France Inter radio.

    The Iraqi judiciary said earlier in May that it had tried and sentenced more than 500 suspected foreign members of IS since the start of 2018.

    Its courts have condemned many to life in prison and others to death, although no foreign IS members have yet been executed.

    The country remains in the top five "executioner" nations in the world, an Amnesty International report said in April.

    https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/1354490.html
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    Iraq condemns eighth French IS member to death

    Baghdad (AFP) -- An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced to death an eighth Frenchman for joining the Islamic State group, rejecting his claims he was tortured into confessing.

    Fodil Tahar Aouidate, 32, first appeared in court on May 27 but a judge delayed his trial to allow for a medical examination.

    "The medical report shows that there are no signs of torture on his body," the judge told the court.

    Aouidate showed no reaction when the judge handed down his death sentence, according to an AFP journalist at the trial.

    He was one of 11 French citizens and a Tunisian handed over to Iraqi authorities early this year by a US-backed force in Syria which expelled the jihadist group from its last bastion.

    A Baghdad court had already handed capital punishments to seven of the French jihadists and the Tunisian over the past week and Aouidate will now join them on death row.

    Interrogated for four months, Aouidate alleged he was beaten to "confess" to the charges levelled against him.

    During his first hearing he showed marks on his back to the judge, who requested a medical examination and report.

    Human Rights Watch on Friday accused Iraqi interrogators of "using a range of torture techniques" and condemned France's "outsourcing" of trials of IS suspects to "abusive justice systems".

    France has long insisted its adult citizens captured in Iraq or Syria must face trial before local courts, while stressing its opposition to capital punishment.

    Iraqi law provides for the death penalty for anyone joining a "terrorist group" -- even those who did not take up arms.

    Aouidate first went to Syria in 2013 and returned in 2014 with 22 members of his family to join IS, according to the French judiciary.

    Authorities also linked him to Belgium's Salafist movement including Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the presumed mastermind of the 2015 Paris attacks.

    France convicted two of Aouidate's sisters for "financing terrorism" for sending 15,000 euros to relatives in Syria.

    (Source: Agence France-Presse)
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    Iraq has executed 100 since January, 8,000 on death row: official

    By Lawk Ghafuri

    Rudaw

    ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ⁠— More than 100 individuals have been executed in Iraq since January, with a staggering 8,000 more on death row, according to Iraq's UN-approved human rights body.

    The execution figures came from Iraqi Ministry of Justice data that was reviewed by the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights, according to one commission member.

    "According to the data of the Iraqi Justice Ministry that have been reviewed by the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights, over 100 people have been executed in Iraq," Hemin Bajalan told Rudaw English on Sunday. "There are 8,022 prisoners in Iraq convicted with execution."

    Iraq has one of the highest rates of execution in the world, and is ranked in the top four along with Iran, Saudi Arabia and China, according to Human Rights Watch's 2019 report, which documented the year prior.

    Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi’s government has not made public the number of executions it carried out this year, according to the watchdog.

    "Iraqi authorities handed down hundreds of death sentences to those convicted under counterterrorism legislation and carried out executions without publicizing any official numbers or sharing this information with international actors," Human Rights Watch report read.

    The trials were also rushed and were sometimes based on a single confession or missing victims' testimonies, according to the report.

    The 100 plus figure marks a big increase in Iraqi executions. In 2018, more than 52 recorded executions took place in Iraq, according to a report from Amnesty International.

    The more than 8,000 people with death sentences is also a striking increase from 2018. At the end of that year, Amnesty reported that there were more than 285 people with death sentence.

    Iraqi security forces captured Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS) in late 2017, and subsequently put its alleged members and affiliates on trial. The US-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria have also transferred hundreds of ISIS fighters into Iraqi custody.

    Iraq is known to have conducted fast trials for ISIS members, often without sufficient evidence.

    One member of parliament said Iraq is asking Western countries to take back their citizens who joined ISIS.

    "There are many foreign ISIS fighters in Iraqi prisons, and Iraq is frequently demanding the western countries to take back their citizens who are Daesh militants," Bakhtiyar Shawis, a member of the parliament's human rights committee, told Rudaw English, referring to ISIS by its Arabic acronym.

    Shawis said Iraq is currently negotiating with some countries on the repatriation of ISIS fighters. Parliament, however, has yet to deliberate on the issue, according to him.

    "We have not discussed the execution issue in the parliament until now," said Shawis.

    There are 26 prisons throughout Iraq that contain at least 37,113 prisoners. Of those, 18,306 are imprisoned on terrorism charges, according to an August report by the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights.

    Two officials from the Iraqi Ministry of Justice Rudaw spoke to declined to discuss the execution figures.

    In the Kurdistan Region, Sulaimani authorities confirmed in May that they executed an ISIS militant from Baghdad after he was detained in Kirkuk in May.

    'Bad conditions'

    At present, there is not enough room in the Iraqi penal system to accommodate all those locked up, according to Bajalan.

    "Due to the bad conditions prisons in Iraq are facing, the prisoners are finding it difficult to fit into one prison," he said. "For that reason, Iraq should deliver more facilities to the prisons."

    Other observers have noted poor conditions in Iraqi prisons as well. According to a July report also by Human Rights Watch, prisons in the Nineveh province feature overcrowding and "degrading conditions." Some of the prisons in Nineveh are supposed to house a maximum capacity of 2,500 people, but are holding around 4,500 prisoners and detainees. Women and children are among those in the prisons, according to the organization.

    Nineveh police have denied inhumane conditions in the prisons and rejected the Human Rights Watch report, calling it "not true."

    Iraqi lawmakers visited the prisons in July, and described the overcrowding and conditions there as "tragic" and "catastrophic."

    https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/190820191
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