On Wednesday Iraqi authorities have executed over 11 people convicted of terrorism this week, security and health sources with rights group Amnesty International condemning an alarming lack of transparency.
Under Iraqi law, terrorism and murder offences are punishable by death, and execution decrees must be signed by the president.
A security source in Iraq’s southern Dhi Qar province said that 11 terrorists from the Islamic State group were executed by hanging at a prison in the city of Nasiriyah, under the supervision of a justice ministry team.
According to the media sources the health department had received the bodies of 11 executed people. They were hanged on Monday under Article 4 of the anti-terrorism law.
In recent years Iraqi courts have handed down hundreds of death and life sentences for people convicted of membership in a terrorist group, an offence that carries capital punishment regardless of whether the defendant had been an active fighter.
Iraq has been criticised for trials denounced by rights groups as hasty, with confessions sometimes obtained under torture.
It said a total of 13 men were executed on Monday, including 11 who had been convicted on the basis of their affiliation to the so-called Islamic State armed group.
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