Legal representative: the right of the judiciary to execute warrants after the end of parliamentary immunity
Legal representative: the right of the judiciary to execute warrants after the end of parliamentary immunity
Friday June 6, 2014 14:44
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Confirmed the parliamentary legal committee, said Friday that the right of the judiciary to execute warrants against the members of the parliament after the parliamentary immunity in the current June 14, pointing to the existence of an arrest warrant for 13 MPs, including various charges related to “terrorism.”
Said committee member Hassan Safi in an interview for “Alsumaria News”, “The judiciary issued in the previous period 13 arrest warrants for members of the House of Representatives on various charges, including terrorism-related and other financial and administrative corruption”, adding that “the Commission has sent a letter to the Presidency of the Council of Representatives demanded by the lifting of the immunity of 13 deputies for interrogation, but the book and ordered the arrest have not been implemented for the existence of parliamentary immunity protects those members. ”
The net that “the Presidency of the Council of Representatives decided to form a committee at the time a member of all the blocks of the investigation and follow up the matter, but the committee did not hold any meeting or something noteworthy because it is highly political, and all requests Judicial Council hit the wall by the Presidency.”
Net explained that “the parliamentary immunity of a member of the House of Representatives expires after the end of the parliamentary session on 14 June and then the judiciary can implement the arrest warrants against the House of Representatives accused of terrorism with terrorism and financial and administrative corruption.”
It is noteworthy that the parliamentary legal committee confirmed that, in the May 18, 2014, that the age of the current parliament ends on June 14 next, and can not extend the session for “one minute”, explained with the possibility of extending the current session for the purpose of “budget approval” only.
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