IRAQ: 2 SENTENCED TO DIE FOR 'TERROR ATTACK' IN ANBAR

September 25, 2018:

Two Iraqis were sentenced to death on September 24, 2018 after being convicted earlier of killing 12 civilians in Iraq’s western Anbar province.
According to Abdul-Sattar Bayrakdar, a spokesman for Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council, a criminal court sentenced the pair to death earlier for killing 12 civilians in Anbar’s Al-Jazeera district in what the court described as a “terrorist attack”.
A third person was slapped with life behind bars for taking part in a separate attack in Diyala province.
The defendants now have 30 days in which to appeal the sentences before Iraq’s Federal Court of Cassation.