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
JULY 30, 2014IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: SHI'ITE MILITIA HANGS UP 15 EXECUTED SUNNIS IN SQUARE
Iraqi Shi'ite militia forces executed 15 Sunni Muslims and then hung them from electricity poles in a public
JULY 12, 2014IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: SECURITY FORCES ACCUSED OF EXECUTING PRISONERS
A rights group has said Iraqi security forces and Shia militia members have been involved in executing at
- MAY 28, 2014IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ: SEVEN ‘TERRORISTS’ SENTENCED TO DEATH PENALTY
Babel’s Criminal Court sentenced 7 men to death on terrorism charges, a source said to IraqiNews.com.
MAY 17, 2014IraqDEATH PENALTYSYRIA: ISIL MILITANTS EXECUTE TWO KURDISH MEN NEAR ALEPPO
the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) executed two Kurdish civilians in the town of Deir Hafer in
APRIL 15, 2014IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: MORE THAN 600 IRAQIS EXECUTED IN 4 YEARS
The Iraqi justice ministry has executed more than 600 "terrorists" in the past four years, the Iraqi justice
- APRIL 7, 2014IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ CARRIED OUT DEATH SENTENCE ON CONVICTED OF TERRORIST CHARGES
The Iraqi authorities carried out death sentences against two convicted of "terrorist” charges as their court
MARCH 13, 2014IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: SEVEN PEOPLE EXECUTED
Iraq executed seven people, including three agents of the ousted Saddam Hussein regime – Hadi Hassuni, Abdul Hassan al-Majid and Farukh Hijazi – who were convicted of the 1994 killing in Beirut of Sheikh Taleb al-Suhail al-Tamimi, the father of a current
JANUARY 23, 2014ItalyDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: 11 OTHERS HANGED FOR TERRORISM
Iraq hanged another 11 people convicted of terrorist offences, the Justice Ministry said, pursuing what a U.N. official has criticized as a "conveyor-belt of executions".
JANUARY 20, 2014IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: 38 HANGED DESPITE UN CHIEF CALLS TO STOP EXECUTIONS
Iraq’s Ministry of Justice sent 38 inmates to the gallows. According to a report aired by al-Rafedein TV, these inmates were executed in the so-called high security prison.
JANUARY 13, 2014IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: AL-MALIKI, ISLAM AND CONSTITUTION AUTHORISE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki publicly rebuked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's call for
- JANUARY 1, 2014IraqDEATH 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 31, 2013IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: AT LEAST 169 PEOPLE PUT TO DEATH IN 2013
at least 169 people were put to death in 2013, by far the country's highest such figure since the 2003 US-led invasion, and one that puts it third in the world, behind just China and Iran.