{"id":29204,"date":"2013-08-20T11:10:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T07:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=29204"},"modified":"2013-08-20T11:10:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T07:10:27","slug":"iraq-hangs-17-mostly-for-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=29204","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Hangs 17, Mostly for &#8216;Terrorism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Iraq-executes-convicted-terrorists.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29202\" alt=\"Iraq executes convicted terrorists\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Iraq-executes-convicted-terrorists.jpg\" width=\"342\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Iraq-executes-convicted-terrorists.jpg 342w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Iraq-executes-convicted-terrorists-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Iraq-executes-convicted-terrorists-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/a>Iraq executed 17 prisoners on Monday, all but one convicted for &#8220;terrorism,&#8221; shrugging off calls from international human rights organizations to reconsider the use of capital punishment.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on its website, the Justice Ministry said authorities had executed 15 Iraqis and an Egyptian convicted of terrorism for &#8220;carrying out crimes against the Iraqi people.&#8221; The other prisoner was convicted of another unspecified criminal offense.<\/p>\n<p>Two of those hanged were women, it added, without saying when the executions were carried out. This year, a total of 67 people have been executed in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to London-based Amnesty International, Iraq was ranked fourth among the top five executioners in the world in 2011, after China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq executed 17 prisoners on Monday, all but one convicted for &#8220;terrorism,&#8221; shrugging off calls&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,152,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}