An Iraqi court has sentenced a man to death for the killing of Safaa al-Mashhadani, a Baghdad Provincial Council member and parliamentary candidate who was assassinated in a bomb attack last year.
The killing of al-Mashhadani occurred in October 2025 near the capital, just weeks before Iraq’s parliamentary elections.
In a statement, Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council confirmed that a criminal court “issued a death sentence against the killer of Baghdad Provincial Council member Safaa al-Mashhadani.” The council specified that the convicted individual had “planted an explosive device under the victim’s vehicle.”
In accordance with Iraqi law, both murder and terrorism are capital offenses punishable by death. However, all death sentences must receive presidential approval before being carried out.
The elections were the sixth to be held in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion that resulted in the overthrow of the former government under Saddam Hussein.
