Iraq
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- federal parliamentary democracy
- CONSTITUTION
- ratified on October 15, 2005 (currently under review by the Constitutional Committee and likely to be subject to a referendum in the future)
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on European civil law and Islamic law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- Council of Representatives
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- according to the constitution, the federal judiciary includes the High Judicial Council, the Federal Supreme Court, the Federal Court of Cassation, the Public Prosecutor's Department, the Judicial Oversight Commission, and other federal courts
RELIGIONS
97% Muslims; Christian and Hindu minorities
From the country
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2017IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ CARRIES OUT DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST 42 TERRORISTS IN DHI QAR
Iraqi Justice Minister carried out death sentences against 42 terrorists imprisoned at al-Hout prison in Dhi Qar province
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: ISIS FOREIGN FIGHTER SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Russian national convicted of being an ISIS fighter has been sentenced to death by a criminal court in Baghdad, Iraq's High Judicial Council announced.
AUGUST 27, 2017IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: ISLAMIC STATE’S ‘CHEMICAL EMIR’ SENTENCED TO DEATH
Baghdad Iraq’s Central Criminal Court sentenced a prominent Islamic State chemical warfare developer to death, convicting him of developing some of the group’s deadliest weapons.
- MARCH 30, 2017IraqDEATH PENALTY
Man stoned to death for being gay by IS
30 March 2017: the Islamic State (IS) group militants executed a prisoner by stoning to death before throwing him off the roof of a high-rise building in Iraq's Mosul after discovering his sexuality.
MARCH 26, 2017IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: BAGHDAD COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH OVER LINKS TO ISIS HACKING
An Iraqi criminal court has sentenced a man to death on terrorism charges over links to secretive Islamic State (ISIS) hacking programs.
JANUARY 31, 2017IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: SYRIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FINANCING ISLAMIC STATE
Iraq’s judiciary sentenced a Syrian national to death, finding him guilty of financing Islamic State militants.
- JANUARY 25, 2017IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ: TWO ISIL MILITANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Kirkuk criminal court judge sentenced two ISIL militants to death, Brig. Sarhad Qadir, Kirkuk Suburban Police Chief, told Millet Press.
JANUARY 20, 2017IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: 31 CONVICTS EXECUTED FOR SPEICHER'S MASSACRE
31 persons were executed for their alleged role in Speicher's massacre in 2014, Iraqi Justice Ministry announced.
- JANUARY 1, 2017IraqDEATH PENALTY
On April 9, 2003 Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime was overthrown by a US-led military coalition.
On April 9, 2003 Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime was overthrown by a US-led military coalition.
- DECEMBER 30, 2016IraqDEATH PENALTY
the Justice Ministry disclosed that there are about 300 death-convicts are in Iraqi prisons, but the execution verdicts were not implemented till now.
the Justice Ministry disclosed that there are about 300 death-convicts are in Iraqi prisons, but the execution verdicts were not implemented till now.
DECEMBER 30, 2016IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: 88 TERRORIST CONVICTS EXECUTED IN 2016
The Iraqi authorities executed 88 terrorists convicts in 2016, despite the international calls to stop this punishment in this country.
DECEMBER 17, 2016IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: ISIS EXECUTES TEENAGER IN KIRKUK ON CHARGES OF SPYING
The ISIS terrorist group has executed an Iraqi teenager in southern Kirkuk, after accusing him of spying for the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, local sources reported.