36 ISIS fanatics to be hanged in Iraq over their role in the notorious massacre of 1,700 soldiers who were brutally slaughtered at army base
Human rights groups have protested the mass executions that were signed off by the President
MORE than 30 ISIS soldiers will be executed as punishment for the murder of 1700 soldiers in Iraq.
The mass hanging of 36 of the 40 soldiers who were convicted for their involvement in the brutal slaughtering of the soldiers in Camp Speicher in 2014 has been signed off by Iraq President Fuad Masum.
The convicted men will be hanged as punishment for their involvement in the massacre, which occured when ISIS groups seized the camp two years ago.
The victims had been packed into trucks and were told they would be returned to their families.
Instead, they were brutally murdered at point blank range.
Human remains have since been found at a site believed to be a mass grave containing the bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed in Tikrit, northern Iraq.
Iraqi security forces said that since recapturing the city of Tikrit they had found 14 mass graves, containing bodies including those of soldiers captured by the militants after fleeing from Speicher military base.
The Sunni jihadist group claimed at the time to have executed 1,700 Shiite soldiers who had surrendered to it after fleeing the nearby Camp Speicher
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Photos of the horrific massacre also showed the ISIS fighters tying up the soldiers and firing them into mass graves in the desert.
Iraq President Fuad Masum has since approved the executions of the men involved in the massacre.
But human rights have protested the decision, saying the case relied on confessions extracted through torture.
The United Nations chief also expressed "serious concern" over the implementation of the death sentence for the more than 30 men.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said: “Given the weaknesses of the Iraqi justice system, and the current environment in Iraq, I am gravely concerned that innocent people have been and may continue to be convicted and executed, resulting in gross, irreversible miscarriages of justice.
"Fast-tracking executions will only accelerate injustice"
The UN revealed that as of last month, 45 death sentences had been carried out since the beginning of 2016.
Mr Zeid called on Iraq to end the use of the death penalty.
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