Yes, this absurd news is true. The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Court has sentenced the women to death by hanging, with the executions set for March 3 in Baghdad. All charged with ‘offences against the public welfare’ by a government that cannot even provide electricity but fills the streets with dead bodies.
According to attorney Walid Hayali of the Iraqi Lawyers Union, Wassan Talib, 31, has been charged with the killing of five police officers in an attack on the police, Zainab Fadhil, 25, was charged for an attack on a joint patrol of the Iraqi and U.S. armies in Baghdad while Liqa Muhammad, 26, was charged with the killing of an official in the Green Zone in the course of a kidnapping.
None of the three women was permitted to see a lawyer. The trials to which they were subject are illegal under international law. All three are prisoners of war with protected rights under the Third Geneva Convention. Their execution would not only be illegal but would also be immoral.
Civilization around the world condemns the death penalty while Iraq’s feudal leaders make a public spectacle of executions.
Just re-think this:
They are being hanged for carrying out successful military attacks against those who killed their babies, destroyed their homes and who tried to molest them.
As Layla Anwar in An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle... writes
What kind of ‘men’ throw the women of their own country in filthy jails and am sure these women were raped too, with no trial and no real charges?
Execute the women of Iraq, young and old. Execute anyone who speaks out against both the occupation by America and Iran. This is it. This is what it boils down to.
Iraqi women are testament to the life of the nation of Iraq. The United States and its local conspirators, in creating hundreds of thousands of widows and reducing life in Iraq to a struggle for bare survival, have placed women in the crosshairs and now on the gallows.
Women are always the first and last victims of war. There is no honor in murdering women. Occupation is the highest form of dictatorship. It is not these three women who should be prosecuted rather it is this government and its foreign paymaster.
