{"id":621,"date":"2013-03-31T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T08:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/2013\/03\/31\/iraq-18-executed-despite-international-outcry\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T14:48:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T11:48:34","slug":"iraq-18-executed-despite-international-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/2013\/03\/31\/iraq-18-executed-despite-international-outcry\/","title":{"rendered":"By Hands Off Cain &#8216;Iraq: 18 Execution Despite International Outcry&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div><b style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\">March 27, 2013:<\/b><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Iraq executed 18 people this month, eight of them on the same day as an attack on the justice ministry, a top official said, despite global condemnation over its ongoing executions.&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\">They were the first confirmed executions this year, after Justice Minister Hassan al-Shammari insisted last week that Baghdad would continue to implement the death penalty in the face of widespread calls for it to issue a moratorium.&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\">Iraq executed at least 129 people last year, according to the justice ministry.&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\">&#8220;On Thursday (March 14), we executed eight, and then on Sunday (March 17), we executed 10,&#8221; Deputy Justice Minister Busho Ibrahim told AFP.&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\">He said that all 18 were convicted of terror-related offences, and that all were Iraqi men.&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\">He declined to give a breakdown of where they were from, but said that some had been tried in northern Nineveh province and some in Baghdad, with others in unspecified provinces.&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\">Eight of the executions coincided with a coordinated attack on the justice ministry complex in central Baghdad on March 14 in which 30 people were killed. The attack was later claimed by Al-Qaeda&#8217;s front group in Iraq.&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\">Al-Qaeda&#8217;s Iraqi affiliate later said that nationwide attacks on March 19 that killed 56 people were &#8220;revenge for those whom you (the government) executed.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\">Iraq&#8217;s executions have sparked calls for a moratorium from the United Nations, as well as Britain, the European Union and rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;\">EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in a statement on March 27 that she &#8220;deeply&#8221; regretted that Iraq had restarted executions with the government having pledged to review cases of those arrested after months of protests in Sunni areas.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"cainofontenews\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-style: italic; font-size: 10px; text-align: justify;\">(Sources: AFP, 28\/03\/2013)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"cainofontenews\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-style: italic; font-size: 10px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"cainofontenews\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-style: italic; font-size: 10px; text-align: justify;\">Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.handsoffcain.info\/news\/index.php?iddocumento=17303134\">http:\/\/www.handsoffcain.info\/news\/index.php?iddocumento=17303134<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 27, 2013:&nbsp;Iraq executed 18 people this month, eight of them on the same day as an attack on the justice ministry, a top official said, despite global condemnation over its ongoing executions.&nbsp; They were the first confirmed executions this year, after Justice Minister Hassan al-Shammari insisted last week that Baghdad would continue to implement &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-reports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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