Iraq upholds death penalty for Speicher massacre
Iraqi President Fuad Masum on Sunday ratified the death sentences of 36 people in connection with the 2014 mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi air force cadets by ISIL militants in northern Iraq.
In a Sunday statement, the Iraqi Presidency said Masum has “approved all the death sentences handed down in the crime of the Speicher Camp”.
On June 12, 2014, ISIL terrorist group seized the northern city of Tikrit and posted a video purporting to show the mass killing of hundreds of security officers and military students. The officers were alleged to be affiliated to the Speicher base.
The Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights said the number of those murdered was 2,398.
Last week, an Iraqi court sentenced 36 people to death in connection with the mass killings and sent the verdicts to the Iraqi president for approval.
Iraq has plunged into a security vacuum since June 2014, when ISIL stormed the northern city of Mosul and declared what it calls a caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
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Iraq to execute 36 within days
Iraqi President Fuad Masoum has announced that the government will execute 36 terrorists from Islamic State who have been convicted of killing 1,700 people held captive after promising that they would be sent back to their families.
Masoum, who approved the death sentence this week, said the members of the terror group, which is also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh, were involved in a June 2014 massacre in Camp Speicher, a former U.S. military base near the central city of Tikrit, according to Ahlu Bayt News Agency.
The ISIS members will be sent to the gallows within days. They were sentenced to death in February by the central criminal court in Baghdad.
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