IRAQ: 17 EXECUTED INCLUDING 2 WOMEN

On 19 August 2013, Iraqi authorities executed 17 people, including an Egyptian man and two Iraqi women, most of whom were convicted of terrorism, Iraq's Ministry of Justice said in a statement, without specifying when the executions took place. "The Ministry carried out the executions against the terrorists after it was approved by the presidential council," the ministry said.
The statement quoted Justice Minister Hassan al-Shammari as saying that 16 of those executed were convicted under Article 4 of the country's anti-terrorism law, while the seventeenth was sentenced to death for an unspecified criminal offence.
One of those executed was an Egyptian national, while the rest were Iraqis.
With the latest executions, at least 67 people have been put to death in Iraq so far this year, according to an AFP tally based on reports from the justice ministry and officials.