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Iran orders immediate execution of 300 people for having connections with ISIS

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Iran orders immediate execution of 300 people for having connections with ISIS

No less than 300 people, including around 100 foreign women, are on death row in Iraq and hundreds bagged life imprisonment for having links with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS).

The order for the immediate execution of all convicted “terrorists” was made by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday in swift retaliation for the group’s execution of eight captives.

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Abadi “ordered the immediate execution of terrorists condemned to death whose sentences have passed the decisive stage,” his office said, referring to convicts whose appeals have been exhausted.

He had vowed to avenge the deaths of ISIL captives, a day after their bodies were found along a highway north of the capital, Baghdad.

“Our security and military forces will take forceful revenge against these terrorist cells,” he told senior military officials and ministers.

“We promise that we will kill or arrest those who committed this crime,” he said.

 

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