FORMER IRAQI SOLDIER SENTENCED FOR WAR CRIMES an IS militant. The video was uploaded to Ahmed Jabbar Hasan’s Facebook page, along with another video of him posing in front of burning bodies. Ahmed Jabbar Hasan The investigation was launched in May 2017 after the police had been informed about the video by someone who had seen it online. Context Ongoing proceedings in Finland against an Iraqi soldier for war crimes committed in Iraq, in March 2015 Procedure The accused was arrested for three days at the end of June 2017. He was indicted in July 2018. Suspect Iraqi nationals and former corporal in the Iraqi army Country of residence of suspect Finland Charges War crimes of desecrating and violating the dignity of a dead body Developments in 2018 The investigation was ongoing in 2018. On 10 January 2019, a Court in Helsinki sentenced the accused to a 18 month suspended sentenced for war crime, after he was filmed cutting off the head of a dead Islamic State fighter. Current status Sentenced Facts In March 2015, during an operation against the Islamic state (IS) near Karma in March 2015, the accused was filmed decapitating the body of 22