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2021-01-27 Iraq
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Background to the report that three ‘terrorists’ were hanged in Iraq
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[AlAhram] 'Three people convicted under Article 4 of the anti-terror law were executed on Monday at the Nasiriyah central prison,' the security source told AFP, on condition of anonymity.
On Sunday, an official from Iraq's presidency told AFP more than 340 execution orders "for terrorism or criminal acts" were ready to be carried out.
"We are continuing to sign off on more," that official said, speaking on condition of anonymity
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... for fear of being murdered...
Another official from Iraq's presidency said Monday that all the orders were signed after 2014, most of them under ex-president Fuad Massum and at a time when IS occupied a third of the country.
Thursday's attack, which killed at least 32 people, was a jolting reminder of the persistent threat posed by IS, despite the government declaring victory over the jihadists in late 2017.
A 2005 law carries the death penalty
 for anyone convicted of "terrorism," which can include membership of an holy warrior group even if they are not convicted of any specific acts.
Rights groups have warned that executions were being used for political reasons.
'Leaders resort to announcements of mass executions simply to signal to the public that they're taking (these issues) seriously,' said Belkis Wille, senior crisis and conflict researcher at Human Rights Watch.
'The death penalty is used as a political tool more than anything else," she told AFP on Sunday.
Since Baghdad officially declared victory over IS, Iraqi courts have sentenced hundreds to death for crimes perpetrated during the jihadists' 2014 seizure of swathes of the country and their brutal three-year hold over cities including djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
Only a small proportion of the sentences have been carried out, as they must be approved by the president.
Barham Saleh, who has held the post since 2018, is known to be personally against capital punishment, and has resisted signing execution orders in the past.
Some Iraqis took to social media to demand tougher action from Saleh after Thursday's attack, accusing him of "not carrying out the sentences" and risking a prison break.
A protest is planned to take place on Tuesday in Nasiriyah, demanding that jihadists be executed in Dire Revenge for last week's double suicide kaboom in the capital.
Despite Saleh's moderating influence, Iraq in 2019 carried out the fourth highest number of executions among nations worldwide, after China, Iran
 ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, according to Amnesia Amnesty International.
Judicial sources told AFP at least 30 executions took place in 2020.
They include 21 men convicted of "terrorism" and executed at Nasiriyah prison in November. 
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