Iraq executed eight people convicted of “terrorism”, a security source and health official said Friday, the third such group put to death in the country in little over a month.
A security source said eight Iraqis “convicted of terrorism and of being members of the Islamic State group were executed by hanging” Thursday at Al-Hut prison in the city of Nasiriyah “under the supervision of a justice ministry team”. She said executions were happening “despite evidence of years of unfair trials and human rights violations” that landed men on death row.
Rights groups denounced the proceedings as rushed, warning that confessions were sometimes believed to have been obtained under torture. In late January, UN experts looking into capital punishment in Iraq expressed their “deep concern at reports that Iraq has begun mass executions in its prison system”.The independent experts, who are appointed by the UN Human Rights Council but do not speak on its behalf, mentioned in their statement executions carried out late last year in the Nasiriyah prison.
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