An Iraqi court sentenced 24 men to death by hanging on Wednesday over the June 2014 massacre by jihadist and allied militants of hundreds of mostly Shiite military recruits in Tikrit.
The central criminal court in Baghdad handed 24 of 28 defendants the maximum sentence over the “Speicher” massacre, named after the base from which the victims were captured before being executed.
“After deliberations, the court finds that the evidence collected is sufficient to convict 24 defendants,” said the judge.