{"id":97805,"date":"2026-05-04T20:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97805\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:50:11","slug":"iraq-jails-four-over-baath-related-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97805\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq jails four over Baath-related activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-04T14:06:29+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Baghdad<\/p>\n<p>Iraq\u2019s Supreme Judicial Council<br \/>\nsentenced on Monday four individuals to six years in prison over affiliation<br \/>\nwith and promotion of the banned Baath Party.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the council said<br \/>\nBaghdad\u2019s Karkh Criminal Court issued the ruling after authorities found<br \/>\nmaterials promoting Baathist ideology on the defendants\u2019 mobile phones. The<br \/>\ncase was linked to activities recorded in Kirkuk during 2025 and 2026.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777907131200.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The court based its decision on<br \/>\nArticle 8 (First) of Iraq\u2019s Baath Party Ban Law No. 32 of 2016, along with<br \/>\nArticles 47, 48, and 49 of the Penal Code relating to participation in <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/society\/Iraq-s-raid-on-secret-Baathist-cell-and-the-persistent-shadow-of-Saddam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">criminal<\/a><br \/>\nacts. <\/p>\n<p>On April 26, Iraq\u2019s Federal Court of<br \/>\nCassation acquitted former lawmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Iraq-clears-former-MP-Haider-Al-Mulla-in-Baath-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Haider al-Mulla<\/a> of charges related to<br \/>\npromoting the banned Baath Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-04T14:06:29+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq\u2019s Supreme Judicial Council sentenced on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[34221,94,34220,975],"class_list":{"0":"post-97805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-baathist-ideology","9":"tag-iraq","10":"tag-iraq-jails-four-over-baath-related-activity","11":"tag-prison"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116518284622950864","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97805","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=97805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}