IRAQ: SUSPECTED ISIS MURDERER SENTENCED TO DEATH

March 14, 2024:

The Iraqi judiciary on March 12, 2024 sentenced a suspected Islamic State (ISIS) murderer in Anbar province to death, the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) reported.
The PMF’s investigations and preventive security directorate announced that its forces had arrested a suspected ISIS security member in Anbar’s Fallujah city. The individual is accused of having been specialized in “assassinating officers and security members, and preparing car bombs,” during the militant group’s control over the province.
The suspect was handed the death sentence in accordance with Article 4 of the anti-terrorism law, the PMF statement added.
Article 4 of the 2005 Iraqi anti-terrorism law states that anyone who participates in committing a “terrorist act,” as defined by the law, shall be sentenced to death, with life imprisonment sentences being handed out to those found guilty of intentionally concealing a “terrorist act” or harboring a perpetrator of such act.