Iraq
2026
STATUSRetentionist
EXECUTIONS 20261
SENTENCES18
- 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
MARCH 16, 2011IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: AL-QAIDA LEADER SENTENCED TO DEATH
the Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court sentenced al-Qaida leader Munaf al-Rawi and five
- JANUARY 17, 2011IraqDEATH PENALTY
PROTEST HELD IN IRAQ'S ARBIL AGAINST EXECUTION OF IRANIAN KURDISH ACTIVIST
over "2,000" people have staged a demonstration outside the Iranian consulate in Arbil, Iraq, in protest against the execution of a Kurdish activist Hoseyn Khezri in Iranian Orumiyah prison on 15 January.
- JANUARY 1, 2011IraqDEATH 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.