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Iraqi authorities have hanged at least 21 people, including a woman, most of them convicted over “terrorism” charges, three security sources said on Wednesday. It was reportedly the highest number of executions reported in one day in years in Iraq, which has previously come under fire over its trial processes and the use of capital punishment on a mass scale. “Twenty-one convicts including a woman were executed” on charges including “terrorism” and being part of the Islamic State militant group, an Iraqi security official told AFP. “The woman was part of a group who killed a person” in 2019 as…

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