IRAQ: DEPUTY GOVERNOR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ARMED ATTACKS

November 29, 2012: A death verdict was issued in Iraq against the second deputy governor and former governor of Diyala, Mohammed Jassim al-Jubouri, and four of his aids after they were convicted of armed attacks in the town of Barwanah in the al-Muqdadiya district in 2007, which killed and wounded dozens.
Security services have deployed additional personnel in the vicinity of government and security institutions in Diyala, after the Higher Judicial Council issued the death verdicts.
Spokesman of the Higher Judicial Council Abdul-Sattar Bayraqdar had announced that “the Central Criminal Court, headed by judge Baligh Hamdi, issued a death sentence against former deputy governor of the province of Diyala, Mohammed Hussein Jassim al-Jubouri, and four others for conducting armed attacks for sectarian motives in Diyala.”  (Sources: Al-monitor.com, 29/11/2012)