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Iraq\u2019s Central Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced three convicted drug traffickers to death after authorities found 140 kilograms of methamphetamine and caffeine in their possession.<\/p>\n
In July, Iraq\u2019s Interior Ministry said authorities had seized 16.8 tons of narcotics<\/a> since 2023, while courts issued 380 death sentences, 150 life sentences and 190 international arrest warrants in drug trafficking cases.<\/p>\n Read more: <\/a>The Smuggler’s Almanac: Iraq’s war against narco-innovation<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-11T11:47:46+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq\u2019s Central Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[16267,152,18050,27312,94,68168],"class_list":["post-244751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-arrests","tag-breaking","tag-death-sentence","tag-drug-trafficking","tag-iraq","tag-three-traffickers-sentenced-to-death-over-140-kg-drugs-in-iraq"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117076796591493501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}