IRAQ’S attempt to fast-track death sentences handed down by the country’s courts will result in greater injustice, according to United Nations human rights commissioner Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein.

“Given the weaknesses of the Iraqi justice system, I am gravely concerned that innocent people have been and may continue to be convicted and executed, resulting in gross, irreversible miscarriages of justice,” he said on Monday.

The UN in Iraq has found “a consistent failure to respect due process and fair trial standards, including a reliance on torture to extract confessions,” Mr Hussein added.