Iraq hanged 13 convicted terrorists from the Islamic State Group

Middle East Muslim country Iraq has hanged 13 convicted terrorists from the militant organization Islamic State Group (ISIS). Iraqi authorities executed the terrorists this week under Article 4 of the anti-terrorism law.

The President must approve the execution orders before they can be carried out under Iraqi law. Both terrorism and murder are capital crimes in the state of Iraq. Capital crimes are crimes that can result in a death sentence.

There are contradictions about the exact number of hanged terrorists. Amnesty International has reported 13 terrorists’s hanging while some media channels have reported it to 11 terrorists. We have gone with figures reported by Amnesty International considering it more reliable source.

A security source in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province told AFP that 11 "terrorists from the Islamic State group" were executed by hanging at a prison in the city of Nasiriyah, "under the supervision of a justice ministry team".https://t.co/EnCBwBc4hU
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A security source in the southern province of Dhi, Qar Iraq revealed that 13 convicted terrorists were hanged at a jail in the city of Nasiriyah under the supervision of a justice ministry team.

However, the source requested to remain anonymous citing the sensitivity of the matter regarding the terrorist’s hanging on April 22, 2024. Authorities sent the bodies of eleven executed terrorists to the health department.

All eleven terrorists were from Salahuddin province. Authorities have given seven dead bodies of terrorists to their relatives. Iraqi courts have imposed hundreds of death and life sentences on individuals belonging to a terrorist group in recent years.

The conviction carries the death penalty regardless of whether the accused was an active fighter. Iraq has come under fire for court hearings that human rights organizations have called hurried and that occasionally used torture to make the accused confess.

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Meanwhile, the human rights organization Amnesty International condemned it. They also expressed concern over the alarming lack of transparency in this process.

Hence, they condemned the most recent hangings for overly extensive and vague terrorism charges in a statement released on April 24, 2024.

Razaw Salihy is an Iraqi researcher at Amnesty International. He said recent executions in Iraq are alarming and discouraging. A legacy of human rights violations and abuses has also contaminated Iraq’s justice system for years. It has put thousands on death row after extremely unfair trials.