{"id":37092,"date":"2023-05-07T12:43:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T12:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/iraqi-court-sentences-police\/"},"modified":"2023-05-07T12:43:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T12:43:53","slug":"iraqi-court-sentences-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/iraqi-court-sentences-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi court sentences police officer to death for murder of government adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD (Reuters) &#8211;     An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced to death a police officer blamed for leading a group that gunned down well-known analyst and government adviser Hisham al-Hashemi three years ago in Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>Hashemi, who had advised the government on defeating Sunni Muslim Islamic State militants and curbing the influence of the pro-Iran Shi\u2019ite militias, was shot dead outside his Baghdad family home in July 2020 by men on a motorbike.<\/p>\n<p>A Baghdad court issued a death sentence on Sunday against Ahmed Hamdawi under Iraqi counter-terrorism laws, a judicial authority statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Media were not allowed access, but a lawyer who attended the court session said Hamdawi did not say anything in the court in response to the judge&#8217;s ruling.<\/p>\n<p>He can appeal the sentence, a spokesman for Iraq\u2019s Supreme Judicial Council in Baghdad said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Iraqi state television aired a video showing Hamdawi saying he led the group that killed Hashemi.<\/p>\n<p>The government officials then described the killing of Hashemi, who had written about politics, Islamic State and the role of Iran-backed militias in Iraq, as a targeted killing but did not accuse any particular group.<\/p>\n<p>Iran-aligned paramilitary officials denied any role in the killing. Some Islamic State supporters cheered his death, but no group had claimed the murder.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed; editing by Barbara Lewis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/iraqi-court-sentences-police\/file-photo-a-poster-depicting-the-former-government-advisor-and-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTopNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4603U-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4603U-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD (Reuters) &#8211; An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced to death a police officer blamed for leading a group that gunned down well-known analyst and government adviser Hisham al-Hashemi three years ago in Baghdad. Hashemi, who had advised the government on defeating Sunni Muslim Islamic State militants and curbing the influence of the pro-Iran Shi\u2019ite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":37116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-37092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTopNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4603U-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37117,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37092\/revisions\/37117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}