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
- DECEMBER 16, 2010IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ HAS EXECUTED 257 SINCE 2005: MINISTER
Iraq has executed 257 people, including six women, since 2005, deputy justice minister Busho
DECEMBER 13, 2010IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: 835 AWAIT EXECUTION IN PRISONS
Iraq has 835 people waiting to be executed, Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani said, just
- DECEMBER 2, 2010IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ PARADES 39 AL-QAEDA MEMBERS AMID EXECUTION CALLS
Iraqi security forces have paraded 39 suspected al-Qaeda members accused of running terrorist operations
NOVEMBER 29, 2010IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: DEATH SENTENCE FOR THREE SADDAM AIDES
Three aides to Saddam Hussein were sentenced to death by an Iraqi court for
NOVEMBER 17, 2010IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: PRESIDENT TALABANI REFUSES TO SIGN AZIZ DEATH ORDER
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said he would never sign former deputy premier Tareq Aziz's
- NOVEMBER 7, 2010ItalyDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ: DE GREGORIO- THERE IS A CHANCE TO SAVE TAREQ AZIZ
senator Sergio De Gregorio, President of the Italian Delegation for the NATO Parliamentary
- NOVEMBER 6, 2010IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ: PRESIDENT TALABANI AGAINST HANGING TAREQ AZIZ
Iraqi president Jalal Talabani spoke out against the fact that his country uses the death
OCTOBER 31, 2010ItalyDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: AZIZ- FRATTINI READY TO GO TO BAGHDAD WITH PANNELLA
Foreign Minister Franco Frattini is ready to go with Marco Pannella to Baghdad to 'ask the Iraqi authorities to intervene and prevent the death penalty against Tareq Aziz and those condemned with him by the Iraqi High Court last week.'
- OCTOBER 27, 2010IraqDEATH PENALTY
UN URGES IRAQ NOT TO EXECUTE HUSSEIN SADDAM AIDE AZIZ
the United Nations urged Iraq to spare the life of Tareq Aziz...
OCTOBER 26, 2010IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: TAREQ AZIZ SENTENCED TO DEATH
Iraq's high tribunal passed a death sentence on Tareq Aziz, once the international face of dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, over the persecution of Islamic parties, the court said.
- AUGUST 3, 2010IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ: FORMER SADDAM OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO DEATH
senior Baath Party official Mezban Khadar Hadi was sentenced to death by the Iraqi High Criminal Court for the draining of the country's marshlands in the 1990s, a court statement said.
- JULY 27, 2010IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ EXECUTED 230 PEOPLE FROM 2005-2009
Iraq executed 230 people from 2005 to 2009 and 1,254 were sentenced to