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
MAY 29, 2019IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: TWO MORE FRENCH ISLAMIC STATE MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
An Iraqi court on 28 May 2019 sentenced two high-profile French members of the Islamic State group to death, bringing the total number of French former jihadis condemned to death this week to six.
MAY 28, 2019IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: FOURTH FRENCH ISIS MEMBER SENTENCED TO DEATH
An Iraqi court on 27 May 2019 condemned a fourth French citizen to death for joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).
MAY 27, 2019IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: THREE FRENCH IS MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
An Iraqi court on 26 May 2019 sentenced three French citizens to death after they were found guilty of joining the Islamic State group, a court official said.
MAY 14, 2019IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY SULAIMANI COURT FOR 2013 KIRKUK TAXI MURDERS
Sulaimani Criminal Court on 12 May 2019 handed down fifteen death sentences to three people who had been convicted earlier of killing eighteen taxi drivers in 2013.
- MAY 11, 2019IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ: TERRORIST SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING SOLDIERS AND RAPING WOMEN
Nineveh Criminal Court sentenced a terrorist of Daesh groups to death for killing Iraqi soldiers and raping Yazidi women, INA reported on 9 May 2019.
MAY 6, 2019IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR JOINING ISLAMIC STATE
An Iraqi court has sentenced four people to death by hanging for belonging to the Islamic State militant group and committing terrorist crimes in Iraq and Syria, a judiciary statement said on 21 April 2019.
- APRIL 26, 2019IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ HANDS DOWN DEATH PENALTY FOR IS TERRORIST OVER DEADLY CARBOMB BLAST
An Iraqi court has sentenced an Islamic State militant to death over his involvement in a deadly car bomb attack in the province of Diyala, iraqinews.com reported on 24 April 2019.
- APRIL 19, 2019IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ: IS MEMBER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR INVOLVEMENT IN SNIPER ATTACKS
An Iraqi court has sentenced an Islamic State militant to death by hanging over his involvement in several sniper attacks in the country, Baghdad Today website quoted the Supreme Judicial Council media center as saying in a press statement on 18 April 201
APRIL 9, 2019IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF 3 UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS
A criminal court in Iraq’s Diyala province on 8 April 2019 said it handed a death sentence to a man found guilty of involvement in the killing of three professors at a local university.
APRIL 8, 2019IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: ALLEGED ISIS LAWYER SENTENCED TO DEATH
Iraq’s Nineveh Criminal Court on 7 April 2019 sentenced to death a man who reportedly worked as a lawyer for the Islamic State following the emergence of the jihadist group in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
MARCH 26, 2019IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: YEZIDI MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TERRORISM
An Iraqi court on 25 March 2019 sentenced a Yezidi (Ezidi) man to death for joining the Islamic State and participating in crimes against his own religious minority group in the town of Sinjar (Shingal) in 2014.
MARCH 25, 2019IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR TERRORISM
An Iraqi court on 24 March 2019 sentenced an alleged terrorist to death for attempting to blow himself up on security forces in the province of Salahuddin.