Shafaq News /The spokesman of the ministry of justice  Haider al-Sa'adi said in a statement "Shafaq  News" received, "The Ministry carried out the death sentences against 68 convicts, including three women, and three of other nationalities, Egyptian, Moroccan and Tunisian.""Most of those who were executed were convicted of committing terrorist crimes," He said adding that "the sentences have been carried out in Baghdad.""The implementation of the death sentences against 34 people over the past days of the current year 2012." He revealed ."Two women and one man holding the Syrian identity were convicted of committing terrorist crimes and criminal actions."He added.On ministry's response to the appeal of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to suspend the sentence of death in Iraq, Sa'adi said, "This is the responsibility of the Judicial Council and the Iraqi parliament being the legislature in the country."

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has called on Iraqi authorities to halt executions until the abolition of the death penalty, in commenting on the death sentence to 34 people.

"Those executed had been tried several times and some of them had been tried, three or five times to verify the guilty, although those convicted were executing the Iraqi people." He said .

Government sources had indicated in July 2010, for the execution of 230 people since 2005 to 2009, , referring to the issuance of 1254 ruling during that period.

It is said that Baghdad re-work the implementation of the death penalty in 2004, after it was suspended during the years that followed the invasion of Iraq in 2003.