Three Swedish nationals have been sentenced to death in Iraq for their involvement in the shooting, and a fourth could also face the same sentence for a separate crime, Sweden’s foreign ministry said.
Last month, the government summoned the Iraqi chargé d’affaires to hand him a protest over the death sentence of one of the three involved in the shooting.
Sweden does not have the death penalty and opposes its application in all circumstances.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it has now received confirmation that two more Swedes have been convicted of the same crime and sentenced to death.
“The information we have received about the death sentences is extremely serious and we are working to ensure that the sentences will not be carried out,” the foreign ministry said in an emailed statement.
In June, the daily newspaper Aftonbladet reported that the men were involved in the killing of another Swedish citizen in Iraq in January.
The ministry said it had received a report that a fourth Swede had been sentenced to death for another drug-related crime, but could not confirm that information, Reuters reports.
