In the same appearance on the morning of 22 August the president said 14,000 people under death sentence have been held in Iraqi prisons since 2006, and — in the version carried by KSS-linked iNEWS — that the general amnesty files had been sent to the judiciary. He separately described the executions issue as a national, constitutional, legal Iraqi file with no connection to any other matter. The figure was relayed within about twelve minutes by KH's Sabereen News and Unit 10,000, KSS's iNEWS, AAH's Al-Ahad TV and the Ashab al-Kahf-linked Shabab al-Islam; the supplied items do not identify the prisoners' offences.
- Sabereen NewsKH — affiliated22 Aug, 11:33
“Fourteen thousand people sentenced to death have been in the prisons since 2006.”
14 ألف محكوم بالإعدام موجودون بالسجون منذ 2006
- Unit 10,000KH — affiliated22 Aug, 11:36
“Fourteen thousand people sentenced to death have been in the prisons since 2006.”
14 ألف محكوم بالإعدام موجودون بالسجون منذ 2006
- iNEWSKSS — affiliated22 Aug, 11:36
“We sent the general amnesty files to the judiciary, and 14,000 people sentenced to death have been in Iraqi prisons since 2006.”
ارسلنا أضابير العفو العام للقضاء و14 ألف محكوم بالإعدام موجودون بالسجون العراقية منذ 2006
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official22 Aug, 11:44
“Fourteen thousand people sentenced to death have been in the prisons since 2006.”
14 ألف محكوم بالإعدام موجودون بالسجون منذ 2006
- Shabab al-IslamAshab al-Kahf — owned/non-official22 Aug, 11:44
“President of the Republic: 14,000 people sentenced to death have been in the prisons since 2006.”
رئيس الجمهورية: 14 ألف محكوم بالإعدام موجودون بالسجون منذ 2006
Amnesty and the death-sentence backlog touch prison populations and sectarian grievance directly, and iNEWS is the one faction-linked channel putting the amnesty step, not just the number, in front of its readers.