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Iraq

Iraq sentences police officer, informant to death over deadly operation

2022-02-14

[Rudaw] An Iraqi court sentenced to death on Sunday a police officer and an informant over a deadly operation in December that left 20 people from the same family dead.

The two men can appeal the verdict, handed down by the criminal court in the central province of Babylon, a judiciary source told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
Security forces in December opened fire on a house in the village of al-Rashayed in Babylon, killing 20 people including women and kiddies, under the pretext of pursuing two suspected terrorists.

But it was later revealed that a family dispute had motivated an informant to give "false intelligence" to police on the presence of "two terrorists" in the house, according to a judiciary statement issued in January.

"The Babylon criminal court has issued a death sentence

...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
by hanging for two of the defendants," the Supreme Judicial Council said, quoted by state news agency INA.

"The other defendants will be tried later," it added.

In addition to the informant, an intelligence officer from the interior ministry, who led the operation, was also condemned to death, the judicial source told AFP.

Eighteen others, including both civilians and security forces, who participated in the operation await sentencing, the source added.

Iraq has the fourth highest rate of executions in the world, according to ~~Amnesia~~ Amnesty International, which has recorded that more than 50 people were executed in the country in 2020, including many who were accused of belonging to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

Both terrorism and homicide charges carry the death penalty in Iraq.

Posted by:trailing wife

#1 Jeez. In the US, this would be the basic no-knock and nobody gets even a time out.

Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2022-02-14 00:18

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