Trial postponed to next Thursday Hashemi

Posted 03/05/2012 04:53 PM


Babinaoz (Reuters) - The Supreme Judicial Council for the trial of Iraq's Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, which was scheduled to begin Thursday the tenth of this month.

A source in the Council today that he has been "postponed trial Hashemi next Thursday the tenth of this month" without giving justification for this decision.

He was scheduled to begin trial Hashemi found weeks ago in Turkey and a number of his bodyguards in Baghdad before the Criminal Court in absentia Thursday on three counts of murder in the Director General of Department of Homeland Security, and an officer in the Ministry of the Interior, and a lawyer.

The issue Hashemi, one of the outstanding issues between the blocs of state law, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the Iraqi List led by Iyad Allawi, which believes that the issue was politicized, and therefore needed a political solution.

The Supreme Judicial Council announced earlier today that the defense team Al Hashimi made ​​a formal request to eliminate the transfer of his trial from the Criminal Court to the Federal Court, pointing out that the Appellate Court is now considering the request and decide whether or not to transfer the trial from later


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