Legal expert urges the Justice Department to wait to publish a general amnesty
Legal expert urges the Justice Department to wait to publish a general amnesty after the determination Abadi introduce an amendment by
8/31/2016 10:03
[Oan- Baghdad]
urged a legal expert, Ministry of Justice, to wait to publish a general amnesty passed by the House of Representatives last Thursday ‘s Law, after the announcement of Prime Minister Haider al – Abadi yesterday the government ‘s determination to provide an amendment to the Parliament to exclude terrorism and kidnapping crimes law.
He said Tariq Harb said in a statement received by all of Iraq [where] a copy of it, “was announced by the Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers will prepare a draft bill to amend the amnesty passed by Parliament on 25 August this is includes an exception terrorist crimes and the exclusion of kidnappings of Law amnesty law in question. ”
he added that” Since the validity of the President of the Republic to ratify this specific law and specific duration in accordance with the provisions of Article 73 / III of the Constitution so as not permissible to delay the law in the presidency more than 15 days from the date of its receipt and the expiry of that period not the ratification of the amnesty law decide the Constitution considered the law is considered ratified , even if it is ratified by the President. ”
he said the war” Article 129 of the Constitution decided to work laws be from the date of publication in the official Gazette Gazette of Iraq where the constitutional article did not specify a certain length the Ministry of Justice for the deployment of these laws , including the amnesty law in the official Gazette in order to be work done and implemented. ”
he stressed that he” can the Ministry of Justice as the authority responsible for issuing the official gazette in accordance with the law publication in the official Gazette No. 78 of 1977, the subject requires from the ministry take the time to deploy Amnesty Law in the official Gazette and pending the enactment of the amendment , which he referred to the Prime Minister and the arrival of the amendment bill to the Ministry of Justice where the deployment of the amnesty law and the dissemination of the amendment Act and the dissemination of the Supreme Judicial for the implementation of the Amnesty Law Council of instructions in a single copy of the Gazette of Iraq Act. ”
However , the legal expert said , ” but that requires the government to speed to send the amendment to the parliament and require parliament to speed in the legislation of the amendment Act , where possible enactment of this Act of parliament no later than ten days and we are asking the government to exclusion from the amnesty include the crime of damaging and destroying effects so it is considered permissible because amnesty law excluded trading antiquities only damaging effects more harmful as ending the life of antiquities. ” he
also stressed the war” an exception Daesh of amnesty for any other crime as well as excluded from amnesty for terrorist crimes , “he said . ” Well done Prime Minister claim to exclude these crimes Amnesty Law , noting that the inclusion of terrorist crimes, kidnappings amnesty contained the law , which parliament took its release came from members of parliament, especially the legal Committee as a draft amnesty bill sent by the government to the parliament did not include the inclusion of terrorist crimes, kidnappings for clemency and retrial. ”
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