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Jan 26, 2024 · Iraq currently ranks fifth among countries that carry out the most death sentences globally, according to Amnesty International. Prisoners await their executions in Iraq in a file photo...
- Astha Rajvanshi
Apr 24, 2024 · Death Penalty. The Iraqi authorities must immediately halt all executions, said Amnesty International today, after at least 13 men were put to death on 22 April in Nasiriyah Central Prison, in the southern governorate of Thi Qar, following their conviction on overly broad and vague terrorism charges.
Jan 24, 2024 · At least 150 prisoners at Iraq’s Nasiriyah prison face imminent execution without warning if President Abdul Latif Rashid approves their death sentences, Human Rights Watch said today.
Capital punishment in Iraq is a legal penalty. It was commonly used by the government of Saddam Hussein (who was himself ultimately executed), was temporarily halted after the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq that deposed Hussein, and has since been reinstated. Executions are carried out by hanging.
Jan 24, 2024 · At least 150 people are at risk of imminent "unlawful" execution in Iraq as the country has continued to step up its use of the death penalty in recent months, according to a new report.
Jun 27, 2024 · GENEVA (27 June 2024) – The Government of Iraq’s systematic executions of prisoners sentenced to death based on torture-tainted confessions, and pursuant to an ambiguous counterterrorism law, amount to arbitrary deprivation of life under international law and may amount to a crime against humanity, human rights experts said today.
Jan 30, 2024 · 13 male Iraqi prisoners – previously sentenced to death – were executed on 25 December 2023. This is the largest number of convicted prisoners reportedly executed by the Iraqi authorities in one day since 16 November 2020, when 20 convicted prisoners were executed.
