Iraqi court sentences Islamic State hacker to death in Baghdad
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Central Criminal Court in Baghdad on Monday sentenced a hacker working in the so-called ‘digital army of caliphate’ of the Islamic State group to death, Sky Press reported on Monday.
Spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council, Abdel Satar Berkadar said that the Central Criminal Court reviewed a lawsuit of a hacker working in the Islamic State Hacking Division (digital army of caliphate) that belongs to the Islamic State terrorist group.
The accused, in cooperation with partners from Arab countries, was hacking several important websites, Berkadar added. The evidences were sufficient to sentence him to death according the counter-terrorism law.
Islamic State Hacking Division refers to a self-identifying group as the digital army for Islamic State. It had pledged allegiance to Islamic State in late 2014.