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Iraq
Turbans on trial: 2 hanged, 2 get life for activities recent and dating back to 2006
2018-07-03
Try ‘em fair, then hang ‘em high. Or not, as the case may be. It remains to be seen who got off easier.
Iraq hangs 2 terrorism suspects, sends third to life: judiciary

Dhi Qar (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi court sentenced two suspects to death, and a third one to life in prison, for terrorism-related crimes in Baghdad, Dhi Qar and Diyala provinces.

Spokesperson of the High Judicial Council, Abdul-Sattar Beyraqdar, said in a statement, said the criminal court in Dhi Qar province sentenced one of the pair to death, finding him guilty of practicing forced deportation and arson in Baghdad back in 2006.
Goodness. The mills of justice ground slowly for this one.
Another defendant, the spokesperson said, was found guilty of blowing up two booby-trapped cars in Dhi Qar in 2013, leaving casualties.

A third defendant, who was sentenced to life, was found guilty of blowing a house with an IED, and carrying out an armed attack on another one in 2006 in Diyala.

Islamic State’s arms dealer sentenced to life in jail in Iraq

Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – An Iraqi court has sentenced an arms dealer of the terrorist Islamic State group to life in jail, according to a judicial spokesman.

“The defendant, along with others, had been arrested in southern Baghdad by the counter-terrorism forces with medium weapons in their possession, which were meant to be used by the IS militants,” spokesman for the High Judicial Council Abdul-Sattar Bayraqdar said in a statement Monday.

The spokesman added that the defendant faced charges of “selling and trading in weapons and explosives in favor of the Islamic State group.”
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