IRAQ: SYRIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FINANCING ISLAMIC STATE

January 31, 2017: Iraq’s judiciary sentenced a Syrian national to death, finding him guilty of financing Islamic State militants.
Baghdad’s criminal court found convicted the Syrian of drawing money transfers from Arab, European and African countries to the extremist group, Iraq’s judicial council speaker Abdul-Sattar Bairaqdar was quoted as saying in a statement.
“He was arrested during an Iraqi air force airdrop near the Syrian borders,” the official stated, adding that the sentence was delivered based on the counter-terrorism law. (Sources: IraqiNews.com, 31/01/2017)