Iraq: A thousand people face the death penalty in Iraq

Iraq: A thousand people face the death penalty in Iraq

Index Number: MDE 14/020/2009
Date Published: 1 September 2009
Categories: Iraq

Iraq now has one of the highest rates of execution in the world. At least 1,000 people are believed to be under sentence of death, 150 of whom have exhausted all legal remedies available to them and are therefore at serious risk of being hanged. In this document, which includes case studies, Amnesty International calls on the Iraqi authorities to halt all executions, to commute all pending death sentences and to ensure that trials meet with international standards.