{"id":266597,"date":"2024-06-10T15:23:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T07:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=266597"},"modified":"2024-06-10T15:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T07:25:11","slug":"iraqi-court-sentenced-seven-drug-dealers-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=266597","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Court Sentenced Seven Drug Dealers To Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAGHDAD, Jun 10 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; An Iraqi court, yesterday, issued death sentences to seven drug dealers, including a foreigner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Central Criminal Court issued a verdict to execute seven drug dealers, including a foreigner, who were convicted of trafficking narcotic substances,&#8221; said a statement by the media office of the Supreme Judicial Council, without specifying the nationality of the foreigner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement noted that, the convicts were sentenced to death for importing and exporting narcotic substances from neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chaos and conflicts that have engulfed Iraq since the U.S. invasion in 2003, impeded Iraqi governments from effectively addressing the threat of drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May, last year, Iraqi Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia&#8217; al-Sudani, underlined the importance of waging &#8220;a war on drugs,&#8221; saying that, drug dealing remains one of the main ways of financing terrorism, and the circulation of drugs flourishes in the shadow of terrorism.&#8211; NNN-NINA &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD, Jun 10 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; An Iraqi court, yesterday, issued death sentences to seven drug dealers, including a foreigner. &#8220;The Central Criminal Court issued a verdict to execute seven drug dealers, including a foreigner, who were convicted of trafficking narcotic substances,&#8221; said a statement by the media office of the Supreme Judicial Council, without specifying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":266599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266600,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266597\/revisions\/266600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/266599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}