{"version":1,"id":"iq","name":"Iraq","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/country/iq/","count":4,"totals":{"reports":4,"arrested":0,"plants_destroyed":0,"hectares":0,"kg_seized":0,"deaths":0},"by_type":{"eradication":0,"seizure":1,"raid":0,"arrest":0,"prosecution":0,"sentence":3,"execution":0,"death":0},"latest":"2026-10-27","reports":[{"id":"iraq-basra-cannabis-death-sentence-2026","code":"CET-1VWNVT","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/iraq-basra-cannabis-death-sentence-2026/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/1VWNVT/","date":"2026-10-27","country":"iq","country_name":"Iraq","place":null,"coordinates":[33.01,43.774],"precision":"country","type":"sentence","also":[],"title":"Basra court sentences a drug trafficker to death over hashish and meth","summary":"The Basra criminal court sentenced a man to death under Article 27(1) of the 2017 drug law after large quantities of methamphetamine and hashish were found in his possession for sale. The Supreme Judicial Council announced the judgment on 27 October 2026. Article 27(1) is one of the law's trafficking provisions and carries death or life imprisonment.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"iraq-basra-cannabis-death-sentence-2026","sources":[{"title":"«الإعدام لتاجر مخدرات في البصرة بعد ضبط كميات كبيرة من الميثيل أمفيتامين والحشيشة» (27 October 2026)","url":"https://964media.com/730016/","publisher":"964media","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"iraq-drug-networks-2025","code":"CET-ER9PTB","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/iraq-drug-networks-2025/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/ER9PTB/","date":"2025-11-25","country":"iq","country_name":"Iraq","place":null,"coordinates":[33.01,43.774],"precision":"country","type":"seizure","also":[],"title":"Iraq says it dismantled 1,201 drug networks in three years","summary":"The interior ministry said security forces broke up 1,201 trafficking and dealing networks, including 171 international ones, and seized 14 tonnes of narcotics in the three years to November 2025. It counted 23,118 court judgments in drug cases, among them 300 death sentences and 1,147 life sentences, and said 6,022 people had recovered from addiction while 1,228 were in treatment at 16 centres.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"iraq-drug-networks-2025","sources":[{"title":"«الداخلية تعلن تفكيك 1201 شبكة مخدرات بينها 171 دولية في ثلاث سنوات» (25 November 2025)","url":"https://ina.iq/ar/security/248692-1201-171.html","publisher":"Iraqi News Agency (INA)","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"iraq-kurdistan-drug-prisoners-2023","code":"CET-NMBKB1","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/iraq-kurdistan-drug-prisoners-2023/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/NMBKB1/","date":"2023-10-15","country":"iq","country_name":"Iraq","place":null,"coordinates":[33.01,43.774],"precision":"country","type":"sentence","also":[],"title":"A fifth of Iraqi Kurdistan's prisoners are held for drugs","summary":"The regional government reported that 1,097 of its 5,283 prisoners were serving sentences for narcotics, 617 of them for use and 480 for trafficking, in prisons holding about three times their capacity. Arrests had risen from 142 in 2014 to 2,017 in 2022.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"iraq-kurdistan-drug-prisoners-2023","sources":[{"title":"Kurdistan Region sees dramatic increase in drug arrests since 2014, putting prisons under strain (October 2023)","url":"https://peregraf.com/en/investigation/6175","publisher":"Peregraf","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"iraq-badra-personal-use-fines-2019","code":"CET-MQ6GWY","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/iraq-badra-personal-use-fines-2019/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/MQ6GWY/","date":"2019-02-13","country":"iq","country_name":"Iraq","place":null,"coordinates":[33.01,43.774],"precision":"country","type":"sentence","also":[],"title":"An Iraqi court fines personal-use offenders; inspectors challenge the amounts","summary":"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…","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":["court","sentencing"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"iraq-badra-personal-use-fines-2019","sources":[{"title":"Fines under article 32 of the drug law","url":"https://www.sjc.iq/view.68465/","publisher":"Supreme Judicial Council, Judicial Supervision Authority","date":null,"archived":null}]}]}