*********** Deputy: general amnesty would delay the next legislative session because of calls for the inclusion of terrorists

Since 11.30.2015 at 09:31 (GMT Baghdad)

Special - scales News

He said a member of the parliamentary legal committee endorsed frankincense, Monday, that the amnesty law enacted will be postponed to next year to the House of Representatives, while noting that the Sunni component tries hard to include the law of the terrorist suspicions.

The gum's / scales News /, "The House of Representatives is keen to legislation of the amnesty law," noting that "there are differences in views between the political blocs where the Sunni component that tries to emphasize the taking out of it likened him to a terrorist as well as some are trying to expand the work in this matter to include the largest segment in the law. "

He added that "to resolve differences between the blocks can only be done through genuine conviction among the component that is trying to seek the inclusion of some terrorist party process," noting that "the law will include trying to merge with the Iraqi street and be active in the community does not exercise the crime again." .

He noted that "the law will be enacted to postpone the next legislative term of the Council of Representatives."

The member of the parliamentary legal committee full Zaidi revealed, earlier, for submission of proposals to amend the amnesty law containing the "big vague exceptions."


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Here is 1 for the books, back in 2008 they passed the Amnesty law

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Iraq’s Amnesty Law

In February 2008 Iraq’s parliament passed an Amnesty Law, which was part of the reconciliation process. On March 27, the Presidential Council ratified it, making it official. The Sunni Iraqi Accordance Front and the Sadrists were the main supporters of the act because up to 80% of those detained are Sunnis, and the Sadrists have faced a wave of arrests by government forces. At the time, most reports said that Iraq held 26,000 prisoners. In fact, the true number was two to three times that. It turns out the government was holding thousands of Iraqis that were never officially arrested or were just waiting for a court date, while others had been found guilty but never given a sentence.

On July 22 Baghdad announced that 109,087 people had been pardoned under the Amnesty Law. There was no breakdown given, but some specifics were publicized in June and May. On June 29, the Voices of Iraq reported that the courts had released 13,199 people that had been found guilty but not sentenced, and 46,371 had been given bail. An additional 33,273 had been pardoned that were wanted, but had never been captured. In May, Iraq had pardoned a total of 55,053 people. 5,636 were convicted criminals, 24,472 were given bail, 11,476 were being held awaiting trial, and13,469 were wanted persons that had not been arrested. The government said they wanted to provide job training for those released to keep them out of trouble.

The huge number of those released, far past the official number of 26,000, shows the dysfunctional nature of the Iraqi justice system. While the U.S. has worked to improve the top court in the country, the rest of the legal system barely works. The United Nations has said that many times Iraqi forces arbitrarily arrest anyone suspicious in an area after an incident. Suspects are then suppose to be assured of due process, where the government can only hold suspects for 48 hours, and then they need to be brought before an investigative judge. The system is so overwhelmed by the number of cases however, that rarely happens. Police often hold people even after their cases have been dropped. Even those that actually go to court and are found guilty rarely get sentenced as the numbers above point out. A U.S. adviser on a Provincial Reconstruction Team told the New York Times that Iraqi courts lack basic necessities and the government doesn’t care about them. Baghdad now has the money to pay for basic services because of the oil boom, but the legal system is not one of its priorities. It will probably take years for this to be fixed, and until then the Amnesty Law will continue to release tens of thousands that should have never been held in the first place, and some that are probably guilty, but the system simply can’t process.


http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/07/iraqs-amnesty-law.html


Full Text: Iraq's New Amnesty Law

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