Iraq just hanged 36 men on the same day

Iraq has executed 36 men convicted of taking part in an Isis massacre of hundreds of soldiers in 2014, despite protests from human rights organisations. The men were hanged at the Nasiriyah prison in southern Iraq on Sunday, governor Yahya al-Nasirir said. Isis captured an estimated 1,700 soldiers from the Speicher military base when it overran the northern city of Tikrit in the summer of 2014. The soldiers were trying to flee from the former US base.
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