Al-Rusafa felonies: Six years imprisonment for five convicts who kidnapped Pakistani people

The Rusafa Criminal Court issued a six-year prison sentence against five convicts for the crime of kidnapping and torturing people of Pakistani nationality in Baghdad. A statement by the media center of the Supreme Judicial Council stated that "the five convicts, four of whom hold Pakistani nationality while the fifth convict was of Iraqi nationality, confessed to filming the kidnapped persons while they were being tortured and sending the video clips to their families in Pakistan for the purpose of bargaining with them to pay a ransom in exchange for their release." He added, "The ruling against them comes in accordance with the provisions of Article 6/Fourth and Seven of the Human Trafficking Law No. 28 of 2012 and in accordance with Articles 47, 48 and 49 of the Penal Code."/End Source: National Iraqi News Agency