February 2019
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An Iraqi court fines personal-use offenders; inspectors challenge the amounts
A Badra court imposed one-million-dinar fines in three personal-use drug cases, relying on general sentencing mitigation to impose a fine alone.[@1] Judicial inspectors said that choosing a fine did not allow judges to go below the drug law's five-million-dinar minimum, and recommended appeals against the judgments.[@1] Their later published review concerns drug offences generally and does not…