Najaf court jails man over wild boar meat
2026-09-14T08:08:26+00:00
Shafaq News- Najaf
The Najaf Criminal Court sentenced a man to 10 years in prison on Monday for allegedly passing off wild boar meat as minced meat, a judicial source told Shafaq News.
The case dates to September 9, when authorities arrested the owner of a butcher shop accused of hunting wild boars in the marshes of Al-Hurriya subdistrict in Kufa and supplying their meat to customers in central Najaf without disclosing its origin, according to a security source.
Legal expert Habib Al-Quraishi previously explained to Shafaq News that Iraqi law does not explicitly criminalize pork sales, but presenting it as another type of meat could constitute commercial fraud.
