Iraq: A thousand people face the death penalty in Iraq

Índice: MDE 14/020/2009
Fecha de publicación: 1 septiembre 2009
Categorías: Irak

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.