Iraq’s Daesh trials bring swift verdicts, almost all guilty
The entire trial lasted just over half an hour. A grey-haired man was led into the defendant’s booth. He fidgeted as the judge read the charges against him: Swearing allegiance to the Daesh group and working for the militants as an employee at a water station. “Not guilty,” the defendant, Abdullah Al-Jabouri, told the judge […]The entire trial lasted just over half an hour. A grey-haired man was led into the defendant’s booth. He fidgeted as the judge read the charges against him: Swearing allegiance to the Daesh group and working for the militants as an employee at a water station.
“Not guilty,” the defendant, Abdullah Al-Jabouri, told the judge in a session of one of Iraq’s counterterrorism courts this week. He said he had worked for Nineveh province’s water department for more than 20 years and stayed at his post when Daesh took over in 2014, but he denied ever swearing allegiance to the group.
