Karkh court sentences two to death over 96 kg hashish and 102 kg Captagon
The Karkh Criminal Court in Baghdad sentenced two convicted drug traffickers to death after they were caught with 102 kilograms of Captagon and 96 kilograms of hashish intended for sale, Iraq's judiciary said. Only the 96 kilograms of hashish is recorded as cannabis.
The Karkh Criminal Court in Baghdad sentenced two convicted drug traffickers to
death after convicting them of drug trafficking, Iraq’s judiciary said in a
statement.[1]
The two convicts were caught with 102 kilograms of Captagon and an additional 96
kilograms of hashish, which the court said they intended to trade and sell among
users.[1]The Captagon is excluded from the cannabis figures, and only the
separately stated 96 kilograms of hashish is recorded.[1]
The ruling came as Baghdad continued a crackdown on the country’s drug trade.[1]According to The New Region, Iraq has evolved from a transit route into a
significant consumption market, with extensive borders with Syria, Iran, Saudi
Arabia and Kuwait.[1]Iraqi authorities arrested around 14,500 suspects on
drug-related charges in 2024 and issued death sentences for 144 suspected drug
traffickers, official data cited by the outlet showed.[1]In the first three
months of 2025, authorities detained at least 1,365 suspected Iraqi traffickers
and 194 foreign nationals, according to the General Directorate of Narcotics and
Psychotropic Substances.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Only one account was opened for this case: the submitted New Region page, which relies on the same judicial statement as other outlets, so no independent second report of the judgment is cited.
The New Region page is dated 3 November 2025 for the ruling but gives no publication metadata agreeing with it; the site's metadata field says 10 October 2023, so the incident date rests on the page text.
The court gives no date for the arrest or seizure and does not say where the drugs were found or which agency seized them.
The convicts are not named, and the report says nothing about an appeal or ratification of the death sentence; no execution is reported.
The Captagon and hashish figures appear only as a combined haul, but the two weights are stated separately, so only the 96 kilograms of hashish is recorded as cannabis.
Basra Criminal Court sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of drug trafficking involving hashish and methamphetamine. The Supreme Judicial Council announced the sentence on 27 October 2026 without giving a weight for either substance.
The Basra Criminal Court sentenced a foreign national to death for drug trafficking after 10 kilograms and 50 grams of hashish intended for sale were seized. The judgment was issued under Article 27(First) of Iraq's 2017 narcotics law, which carries death or life imprisonment.
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.
A Badra court imposed one-million-dinar fines in three personal-use drug cases, relying on general sentencing mitigation to impose a fine alone. 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. Their later published review concerns drug offences generally and does not…