BAGHDAD: Iraq hanged 21 convicted terrorists and murderers on Monday, an interior ministry statement said, the latest in a series of mass executions it has carried out since defeating the Daesh group in 2017.
Among those executed at a prison in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya were people involved in two suicide attacks that killed dozens of people the northern town of Tal Afar, the statement said.
It gave no further details of the identities of the people who were executed or the crimes for which they were convicted.
Iraq has put hundreds of suspected militants on trial and carried out several mass executions since defeating Daesh fighters in a 2014-2017 US-backed military campaign.
Human rights groups have accused Iraqi and other regional forces of inconsistencies in the judicial process and flawed trials leading to unfair convictions. Iraq says its trials are fair.
Daesh captured a third of Iraq in 2014 and was largely defeated both there and in neighboring Syria over the following three years.
Iraq hangs 21 on terrorism charges in latest mass executions
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Iraq hangs 21 on terrorism charges in latest mass executions
- Among those executed were people involved in two suicide attacks that killed dozens of people the northern town of Tal Afar
Israel holds 9,500 Palestinian prisoners as of March
- Administrative detainees represent 36 percent of all Palestinians in Israeli prisons
LONDON: Israeli prison authorities held 9,500 prisoners and detainees as of the first week of March, indicating a 2.15 percent increase from February, according to reports from Palestinian prisoners’ organizations.
Currently, there are 73 female prisoners and 350 individuals under the age of 18 detained in the notorious prisons of Megiddo and Ofer.
The number of administrative detainees is 3,442, the highest percentage among those sentenced, arrested, or classified as “unlawful combatants.” They represent 36 percent of all Palestinians in Israeli prisons, where individuals can be indefinitely detained without charge in military detention centers.
There are also 1,249 “unlawful combatants” detained from inside the Gaza Strip after Oct. 7, 2023, as well as those who were detained from Lebanon and Syria.
