BSS
  25 Sep 2024, 22:12

Iraq hangs 21 mostly on 'terror' charges: security sources

BAGHDAD, Sept 25, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Iraqi authorities have hanged at least
21 people, including a woman, most of them convicted over "terrorism"
charges, three security sources told AFP on Wednesday.

"Twenty-one people were executed in terrorism cases," an Iraqi security
official told AFP, while other sources confirmed the convicts, including one
woman, were executed in Nassiriya prison and the bodies were handed over to
forensics.