An Iraqi court has sentenced a man to death over the 2019 killing of an activist who had taken part in anti-government protests that year, the judiciary said Tuesday. A wave of nationwide protests against endemic corruption and rampant unemployment in late 2019 raged for months before winding down under the shadow of coronavirus restrictions and a harsh crackdown. A bomb attached to Thaer al-Tayeb’s car exploded as he returned from a rally in the capital Baghdad, Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council said in a statement. He succumbed to his wounds on December 25, 2019. The criminal court in the sout…