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Iraq condemns 15 Turkish women to death for having ties with Islamic State
[DAWN] An Iraqi criminal court on Sunday sentenced to death 15 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, a judicial official said. Another Iraq, which has detained at least 560 women, as well as 600 children, identified as Death Eaters or relatives of suspected IS fighters, is wasting no time in putting them on trial. In January, a court sentenced a German woman to death on charges of providing logistical support to IS, and a  Human Rights Watch denounced the rulings as "unfair". Earlier this week, a Baghdad court sentenced a French woman, Melina Boughedir, to seven months in jail for entering Iraq illegally but ordered her release on time already served. Baghdad declared military victory over IS in December, after having expelled the Death Eaters from all urban centres they had held in northern and western Iraq since 2014. According to experts, an estimated 20,000 people are being held in jail in Iraq for alleged membership of IS. There is no official figure. Separately, authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan said in early February they had detained some 4,000 suspected IS members, including foreigners. Iraq's anti-terrorism law empowers courts to convict people who are believed to have helped IS even if they are not accused of carrying out attacks. It also allows for the death penalty to be issued against anyone ─ including non-combatants ─ found guilty of belonging to IS. Posted by: Fred 2018-02-26 |
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