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
- OCTOBER 12, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. U.S. CITIZEN SENTENCED TO DEATH
a US citizen who allegedly orchestrated the kidnapping of three Romanian journalists near Baghdad in 2005 was sentenced to death in an Iraqi court, prompting his lawyers to ask a federal judge in Washington to block the US military from transferring him t
- OCTOBER 6, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. HANGING SADDAM WOULD CAUSE BLOODBATH, FORMER US ATTORNEY GENERAL
former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, a member of Saddam Hussein's defence team, predicted that a bloodbath would follow should an Iraqi court trying the former president have him executed.
- OCTOBER 3, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. HUSSEIN JUDGES DELAY VERDICT
judges postponed their verdict in Saddam Hussein's trial. The verdict had been expected on October 16 but was delayed until at least the end of the month while judges took extra time to review the evidence and make sure their case was airtight.
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. UN ENVOY URGES GOVERNMENT TO COMMUTE SENTENCES OF PEOPLE ON DEATH ROW
the United Nations urged Iraq to commute all sentences of capital punishment after the northern Kurdistan region executed 10 people earlier in the week.
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. 11 PEOPLE EXECUTED FOR TERRORISM
Iraq's northern Kurdistan administration executed 11 people, officially described as terrorists, sentenced to death for taking part in beheadings and bombings.
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2006JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. FAILED FEMALE BOMBER AND SIX OTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
a Jordanian military court sentenced a failed female suicide bomber and six others to death for planning attacks which killed 60 people in Amman in 2005.
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. TWO IRAQI’S SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FOILED ATTACKS ON S. KOREAN MILITARY
two Iraqi’s who attempted to bomb the South Korean military facilities in Iraq were sentenced to death.
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. KURDISTAN PARLIAMENT VOTES FOR USING DEATH PENALTY
in the 4th ordinary session of the Kurdistan parliament in Iraq, chaired by the parliament Deputy Speaker, the Kurdistan parliament unanimously voted for the resumption of capital punishment in the Kurdistan Region.
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. 27 ‘TERRORISTS’ EXECUTED IN BAGHDAD
Iraq executed 27 "terrorists" convicted by Iraqi courts of killings and rapes in several provinces. The 27 were executed in Baghdad, the government's media office said in a brief statement. It did not provide any further details.
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2006Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. IRAQI EXECUTED FOR DRUG DEALING
Saudi Arabia executed Muhammad Bin-Shalal Bin-Farhud al-Shammari, an Iraqi man convicted of trafficking heroin in the strict Muslim kingdom.
- JULY 31, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. HANGING WILL BE SADDAM'S DEATH PENALTY IF CONVICTED – PROSECUTOR
if the death penalty against Hussein was executed, it would be hanging until death and not by a shooting squad, said Jaafar Al-Mosawi, chief prosecutor of the trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. "It is a civil court not a military one," said
- JULY 26, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. SADDAM OPTS FOR FIRING SQUAD
Saddam Hussein declared he would like to be executed by firing squad rather than hanged like "a common criminal" if sentenced to death at the end of his trial for genocide.