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FRANCE 24
April 29, 2018
Iraq on Sunday sentenced 19 Russian women to life in prison for joining the Islamic State group, the latest in a series of heavy verdicts against foreign women linked to the jihadists. The head of Baghdad's Central Criminal Court, which deals with terrorism cases, said the women were found guilty of "joiningÃâà...
RadioFarda
April 29, 2018
The Central Criminal Court in Baghdad has sentenced 19 Russian women to life in prison after convicting them of joining the Islamic State terrorist group. The court on April 29 also convicted six women from Azerbaijan and four from Tajikistan, sentencing them to life in prison as well. The women were notÃâà...
Gulf Times
April 29, 2018
Iraq on Sunday sentenced 19 Russian women to life in prison for joining the Islamic State group, the latest in a series of heavy verdicts against foreign ... Iraqi courts have sentenced to death a total of more than 300 people, including dozens of foreigners, for belonging to IS, judicial sources said earlier thisÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 29, 2018
Some say he was killed during the bombings, some say he was made prisoner by ISIL, however, she believes he was sent to a prison near the Mosul airport. 'We were living in ... Kasim Yahya Ali Hussein, 75, is an Iraq-Iran war veteran who lost his home during the massive Iraqi operation to retake Mosul.
Asharq Al-awsat English
April 28, 2018
Two German ISIS women with their three children have arrived in Frankfurt, after being held in a prison in the Kurdish capital Erbil. ... that he had zero tolerance policy against German ISIS members who had voluntarily joined the terrorist organizations and then returned from combat zones in Syria and Iraq.
Arab News
April 27, 2018
Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, who is running to retain his position in national elections next month, has repeatedly called for death sentences to be sped up. Since 2013, more than 3,000 people convicted on terror charges have been sentenced to death, according to a spreadsheet of Iraqi prison inmatesÃâà...
NRT
April 26, 2018
SULAIMANI — An Iraqi court on Thursday (April 26) sentenced 10 foreign members of Islamic State (ISIS) to death or life in prison. Spokesman of ... Iraq's Higher Judicial Council said 212 people have been sentenced to death in Mosul and surrounding areas, most of them for complicity with Islamic State.
FRANCE 24
April 17, 2018
Two Russian women, both holding children in their arms, were also sentenced to life in prison at the same hearing. Iraq declared victory in December against IS, which at one point controlled a third of the country. The Iraqi anti-terrorism law empowers courts to convict people who are believed to haveÃâà...
Daily Sabah
April 17, 2018
Iraq on Tuesday sentenced a French woman to life in prison for belonging to the Daesh terror group, raising to more than 180 the number of such convictions of foreign women since the country's defeat of Daesh. Djamila Boutoutaou, a 29-year-old of Algerian origin, told a Baghdad court that she left FranceÃâà...
CapitalGazette.com
April 10, 2018
If it wasn't for the horrors of war, maybe Ryan Hollebon wouldn't be facing life in prison. Or maybe, his attorneys argued, he wouldn't have been in an Anne Arundel County courtroom Tuesday, explaining how he stabbed his girlfriend twice before blacking out “like a television changing channels … with theÃâà...
The National
March 25, 2018
What may sound like a wild conspiracy theory to outsiders is seen as an established truth by many families of ISIL victims, who believe their relatives are kept in Muthanna airbase or Taji prison — notorious detention sites in Iraq. On Facebook, images purportedly showing Iraqi soldiers snapping selfies inÃâà...
The National
March 24, 2018
What may sound like a wild conspiracy theory to outsiders is seen as an established truth by many families of ISIL victims, who believe their relatives are kept in Muthanna airbase or Taji prison - notorious detention sites in Iraq. On Facebook, images purportedly showing Iraqi soldiers snapping selfies inÃâà...
The Arab Weekly
March 24, 2018
There are fears that the Iraqi prison conditions of thousands of detainees accused of having links to ISIS could lead to radicalisation, especially as the jails do not segregate suspected terrorists and other convicts. At least 19,000 people are in prisons for terrorism-linked offences. More than 3,000 have beenÃâà...
The Straits Times
March 23, 2018
LONDON (AFP) - An 18-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker on Friday (March 23) received a life sentence with a minimum 34-year jail term over the botched bombing of a rush-hour London Underground train that injured 30 people. Judge Charles Haddon-Cave said Ahmed Hassan had constructed a homemadeÃâà...
CBC.ca
March 22, 2018
Iraq needs a large number of investigators and judges to resolve this issue," Fadhel al-Gharwari, a member of Iraqi's parliament-appointed human rights commission, ... The largest concentration of those with ISIS-related convictions is in Nasiriyah Central Prison, about 320 kilometres southeast of Baghdad,Ãâà...
The Courier
December 31, 1999
Iraq needs a large number of investigators and judges to resolve this issue,” Fadhel al-Gharwari, a member of Iraqi's parliament-appointed human rights ... The largest concentration of those with IS-related convictions is in Nasiriyah Central Prison, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, a sprawlingÃâà...
Mirror.co.uk
December 31, 1999
The leader of Britain First had his nose broken in prison by an Iraqi asylum seeker, it was claimed last night. Paul Golding, 36, is serving 18 weeks in HMP ... Originally from Iraq, Muhsen was jailed for being part of a mob who went looting during the 2011 riots. He is now serving another sentence for a brutalÃâà...
TIME
December 31, 1999
“The Americans freed their captives; under Iraq, they will all receive the death penalty,” he said. Cellphone signal jammers are installed at prisons holding IS suspects. But in Nasiriyah, the prison official said inmates appear to remain in contact with the outside. He recounted how just days after a guardÃâà...
gulfnews.com
December 31, 1999
“The Americans freed their captives” under Iraq, they will all receive the death penalty,” he said. Cellphone signal jammers are installed at prisons holding Daesh suspects. But in Nasiriyah, the prison official said inmates appear to remain in contact with the outside. He recounted how just days after a guardÃâà...
