Iraq executes 21 people mostly over 'terror' charges

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Iraqi authorities have hanged at least 21 people, including a woman, most of them convicted over "terrorism" charges, three security sources have said. "Twenty-one convicts including a woman were executed" on charges including "terrorism" and being part of Daesh, an Iraqi security official said on Wednesday. The same source said they were executed in Al-Hut prison in the southeastern city of Nassiriya.