IRAQ: 12 TERROR CONVICTS EXECUTED

During a press conference in Baghdad, Justice Minister Haidar al-Zamili announced that another 12 people, who were convicted of terrorism offences, had been executed in the previous 30 days.
The Director General of the Department of Reform in the Ministry of Justice, Hussein Khalid, in response to a question by a reporter, said there were about 9,000 detainees on terrorism charges in the Iraqi prisons, including 200 Arab and foreign citizens.