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IRAQ: SECURITY FORCES ACCUSED OF EXECUTING PRISONERS

July 12, 2014: A rights group has said Iraqi security forces and Shia militia members have been involved in executing at least 255 prisoners in six cities and villages.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Saturday (July 12) that Sunni prisoners were killed as Shia fighters and Iraqi soldiers fled advancing Islamic State rebels.
At least eight of those who were killed were boys under age 18, the group says.
According to HRW, five massacres of prisoners were documented between June 9 and 21 in Mosul, Tal Afar in northern Nineveh province, in Baquba and Jumarkhe in Diyala province, and in Rawa in Anbar province.
The group's report cited evidence from witnesses, accounts of the attacks from anonymous police sources and interviews with family members of some of the victims.
"The mass extrajudicial killings may be evidence of war crimes or crimes against humanity," HRW said in its report, adding that it appeared the executions were to avenge "atrocities" by the Sunni Islamic State group.
"Gunning down prisoners is an outrageous violation of international law," said Joe Stork, the deputy Middle East director at HRW.
"While the world rightly denounces the atrocious acts of IS, it should not turn a blind eye to sectarian killing sprees by government and pro-government forces."
In most cases the prisoners were shot dead. In two cases, grenades were thrown inside prison cells of the victims, and in another case dozens of prisoners were set on fire. (Source: Aljazeera, July 12, 2014)

MISSOURI (USA): JOHN MIDDLETON EXECUTED
SRI LANKA: FOREIGN COUPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
MALAYSIA: NIGERIAN STUDENT SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
CALIFORNIA: FEDERAL JUDGE RULES DEATH PENALTY UNCONSTITUTIONAL
EGYPT: TEENAGER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER AND RAPE
USA: INSPECTOR GENERAL'S REPORT FAULTS FBI REVIEW OF DEATH PENALTY CASES
NIGERIA: OGWUCHE, NYANYAN BLAST MASTERMIND, EXTRADITED FROM SUDAN
SOMALIA: ALLEGED AL-SHABAAB MEMBERS EXECUTED
SRI LANKA: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH BY NUWARA ELIYA HIGH COURT
NIGERIA: FATHER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
INDIA: SC BLOCKS DEATH OF TWO IN DEC 16 GANG-RAPE
TANZANIA: CONVICT’S DEATH SENTENCE REDUCED TO FIVE-YEAR TERM
RUSSIA: FEWER CITIZENS SUPPORT DEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: BLASPHEMY ACCUSED SENTENCED TO DEATH
SOMALIA: AL SHABAAB EXECUTE TWO YOUNG MEN IN BARAWE
CHINA COMMUTES BUSINESSWOMAN'S SENTENCE TO LIFE
SRI LANKA: HRC RECOMMENDS GOVERNMENT TO COMMUTE DEATH SENTENCES
FLORIDA (USA): EDDIE DAVIS EXECUTED
EGYPT: HAMBOULY’S DEATH SENTENCE SENT TO GRAND MUFTI
MALAWI WILL NOT ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY, UN TOLD
MALAYSIA: TWO FRIENDS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
PHOTOS OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENTAL CONFERENCE AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: SHOPKEEPER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF FRENCH TOURIST IN TIOMAN ISLAND
ZIMBABWE: NKOMO FARM MURDERER SENTENCED TO DEATH
SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES AL-SHABAAB MEMBER TO DEATH
SUDAN: THREE REBELS HANDED DEATH SENTENCE
EGYPT: MUFTI CONFIRMS DEATH PENALTY FOR 10
UAE: MAJOR RELIEF FOR 17 INDIANS; COURT QUASHES DEATH SENTENCES
SUDAN: 12 SLM-AW REBELS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CENTRAL DARFUR
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