The Supreme Judicial Council in Iraq announced today (Tuesday) that the Rusafa Criminal Court in Baghdad issued a death sentence for eight members of the Islamic State, or what is known as ( ISIS ), for their attempt to restructure the organization inside prisons, recruit prisoners and plan to escape.

The Council said in a statement, "The Rusafa Criminal Court, in the Presidency of the Baghdad Court of Appeal, Rusafa, issued a death sentence against eight criminals who are placed in the Iraqi Correctional Department (Al-Taji Prison - Al-Kifl Prison - Al-Karkh Prison) for having agreed and participating among themselves in contacting prisoners affiliated with the terrorist organization ISIS to restructure the organization." And planning to escape from prisons in order to implement an organized terrorist project.”

He added, "The criminals admitted that they had received instructions to restore the terrorist organization ISIS inside prisons, to recruit prisoners, to appoint princes and leaders, and to link them to the terrorist organization after their release from prisons."

He explained that "the court issued its decision based on the provisions of Article 4/1 and in the context of Article 2/3 of the Anti-Terrorism Law No. 13 of 2005."

Article 4 of the Anti-Terrorism Law in Iraq for the year 2005 stipulates that “anyone who commits, in his capacity as an original perpetrator or business partner, any of the terrorist acts mentioned in Articles 2 and 3 of this law shall be punished with the death penalty. The instigator, planner, financier, and whoever enables terrorists to carry out the crimes mentioned shall also be punished.” In this law, the penalty for the original perpetrator.

On December 9, 2017, Iraq announced the expulsion of ISIS elements and the imposition of full control over all Iraqi lands, but sleeper cells affiliated with the organization are still active in some regions of the country.