Legal Committee: Change 90 judges and prosecutors .. and re-trial Shabibi, Allawi is part of an ambitious reform
Legal Committee: Change 90 judges and prosecutors .. and re-trial Shabibi, Allawi is part of an ambitious reform
11/30/2014 (00:01 pm)
BAGHDAD / Mohammad Sabah
Parliamentary Legal Committee confirmed, and an orientation for the retrial of a number of politicians and officials who were subjected to prosecution previously, arguing that it falls within the “wide process of reform of the judiciary”, and revealed the changes included more than 90 officials from the judiciary.
The parliamentary committee described these actions as part of the process of “national reconciliation” adopted by the Government of Haider al-Abadi said it will include politicians were sentenced to judicial decisions.
The Commission revealed the Federal Court re-law to the Council of Ministers and the judiciary, to make some adjustments to it, asserting that the sticking points is limited to the mechanism of selection of members of the Federal Court and a number of Islamic jurisprudence experts as well as the separation of the Presidency, by the Presidency Council of the Judiciary.
The judiciary was released last Wednesday, bail for former central bank governor, and former Minister of Communications nearly two years after the issuance of arrest warrants against them.
Accuses political parties eliminate collusion with the previous government of Nouri al-Maliki and the issuance of arrest warrants against political opponents, claims Abadi reconsider these provisions as part of the “reconciliation file,” which contained the ministerial program.
He says Mohsen al-Sadoun, vice president of the Legal Committee in a statement to the “long”, “The subject of re-trial Shabibi, Minister of Communications Mohammed Allawi evidence of errors committed by the judiciary in the past years.”
He said al-Sadoun, “There are more than 460 confidential informant worked in the previous period and was telling them is true, which means that there is incorrect legal action and direct intervention by the government doing the judiciary.”
The Kurdish lawmaker retrial of some of the defendants as “falls within the reform process for a wide errors of the judiciary, which previously occurred where,” and asserts that “these actions are part of a process of national reconciliation adopted by the State of Iraq during the coming period.”
Describes a member of the Legal Committee in the Parliament the previous judicial decisions against some political figures as “malicious”, and believed that “it gives the judiciary the right to drop the charges and re-trial in my presence and transparent to all the defendants.”
MP for the Kurdistan Democratic bloc did not rule out the existence of political motives behind the prosecution of former central bank chief and the Minister of Communications, he saw the return to Iraq “in order to drop the charges directed against them.” Confirms al-Saadoun said, “There are a lot of the defendants will return to Baghdad to resume trial in my presence, not in absentia.”
It notes the member of the Legal Committee in the Parliament that “these actions coincide with what the Supreme Judicial Council to transfer and change the 90 judges and prosecutors,” adding that these changes “will help to be making in the next phase required and professional and objective level.”
Sadoun, believes that “the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi appointed former deputy chairman of the central bank’s economic advisor is the latest evidence that the previous decision was unfair against some of the defendants.”
Earlier this month, al-Abadi mind returned to the appearance of Mohammed Saleh, who has served as vice Hbibi at the Central Bank, was arrested in the same case and was imprisoned. The Abadi appointed a special advisor for the economy, evidence that supports different from his predecessor’s policy, and pay attention to the experts who have been rejected by the previous government acted.
Turn Hassan Shammari see, the other member of the Legal Committee, said that “Shabibi Allawi return to Baghdad is part of the orientation of the political blocs in return some defendants courts,” expected “These actions include a lot of different defendants judicial issues politicians.”
Confirms al-Shammari, told the “long”, that “the reform of the judiciary is a priority for everyone,” noting in this context that “the Federal Court Act is discussed in every political bloc in order to add amendments him.”
Previously, al-Maliki’s opponents said they voted to amend the law to the Supreme Judicial Council, separated from the Federal Court, and it led to the loss of office Medhat al-Mahmoud, and survival in the Federal Court only, but that al-Maliki challenged and re-Mahmoud responsible for the Judicial Council. It is now expected to be made available to the parliamentary blocs to hold several reforms agreed since 2010.
The former justice minister said that “the most controversial points is limited by the representation of experts in Islamic jurisprudence before the Federal Court in the current draft,” adding that “other points of contention selection of members of the Federal Court, as well as the separation of the judiciary from the President of the President of the Federal Court mechanism.”
But Salim Shawki, MP for the mass citizen, revealed that “the Federal Court Act, which was read the first reading in the House of Representatives, has been returned to the government and the judiciary which is under deliberation and discussion.”
And between Shawki, told the “long”, that “the discussions revolve around the powers of the court and the number of its members and their privileges,” adding that “the debate is limited to the three powers in order to reach a draft full and mature project.”
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