BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi court sentenced 18 police officers to prison after they were found guilty of failing to prevent protesters from setting ...
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSBAGHDAD - An Iraqi court sentenced 18 police officers to prison after they were found guilty of failing to prevent protesters from setting fire to the Swedish embassy in Baghdad in July over a planned Koran burning in Stockholm.
It says the officers were convicted of"abstaining from their duties to protect the Swedish embassy and to stop the persons who stormed and set fire to it".A government source confirmed the jail terms and said the verdict showed the Iraqi state was committed to holding people accountable for the violence.
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