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The human rights office of the Iraqi Communist Party reported the deaths of 18 citizens executed by the regime, the Regay Kurdistan newspaper said. The report stated that the regime in Baghdad executed a group of 13 people whom it accused of working for the opposition. It listed the victims as Hatim Husayn Mish´al, Farhan Qasim Husayn, Dawud Ali Awni, Basim Ali Wa´il, Nasir Muhsin Jawad, Ubayd Husayn Hasan, Khaz´al Ibrahim Naji, Mahmud Wadi Salman, Abbas Makki Hatam, Salman Muhsin Aba, Ra´d Makki Farhan, Qays Ali Ubayd, Riyad Hisa Adil.The report also indicated that five other citizens were executed by the regime in July 2002 on charges of working for the Islamic resistance. They were identified as: Fadil Mirud Khaya Al-Hamdani, Salah Jabir Al-Hamdani, Falah Jabir Al-Hamdani, Jasim Ahmad Al-Hamdani and Ali Jawad Al-Haydari. The families of the 18 executed were asked to pay 75,000 dinars, being told that the money was for those who carried out the executions. (Sources: BBC Monitoring International Report, Regay Kurdistan, 10/09/2002)
September 30, 2002: the Centre for Human Rights, which is linked to the Iraqi Communist Party, said that 15 political dissidents had been executed in Baghdad. The centre said that the executions took place in the Abu Ghraib prison on July 21 and the bodies were buried at night in a mass grave at al-Karkh cemetery in Baghdad. According to the centre, based in the Kurdish autonomous zone of northern Iraq, the men were executed for opposing President Saddam Hussein´s regime. To date, the centre reported 33 executions of political prisoners during July. It said the executions are going on "while the hypocrite rulers claim that they endeavour to protect the Iraqi people from the dangers of an American aggression and similar other allegations." The Iraqi opposition group urged the international community to send human rights observers to Iraq along with weapons inspectors. (Sources: AP, Sun Herald website, 30/09/2002)
October 28, 2002: Iraq had recently executed six political Iraqi prisoners suspected of having ties with the Iraqi opposition, a newspaper reported in Kurdish-populated northern Iraq. The independent Jamawar paper named those executed by Baghdad´s public security commissariat as Abbas Faraj, Naji Dulaimi, Mohammad Omar, Mohammad Ridha Ismael, Ryad Fadhel and Abbas Nasser. The paper, however, did not provide details on whether the alleged executions took place before or after an October 20th amnesty decreed by Iraq´s President Saddam Hussein for all prisoners in Iraq. (Sources: Al-Bawaba News, 28/10/2002)