Iraqi public refused to pass the Freedom of Expression and Demonstration Law

Iraqi public refused to pass the Freedom of Expression and Demonstration Law

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi civil society groups are planning a campaign of protests against the move by the House of Representatives to pass the Freedom of Expression and Demonstration Law, where many Iraqis believe it will bring the country back to the era of dictatorship and its laws, stressing that freedom of expression is their only gain. After the fall of the former regime, and demanded the masses of different approaches to address the process of adoption. Iraqi citizens have expressed their protest and rejection of the law of freedom of expression and demonstrations in the first and amended versions, which the House of Representatives wants to vote and approve, pointing out that the demonstrator (parliament) does not enact a law for the demonstrator, and stressed the need to raise slogans condemning the law such as (not to muzzle the mouths) (We will not shut up). They pointed out that this law is a clear violation of freedoms and the exercise of domination and hegemony and tyranny in violation of the essence of the Constitution as it creates deterrent penalties for the exercise of these freedoms through descriptions have a wide interpretation of the interpretation and can be interpreted according to the political mood. As an example, the protesters referred to an amendment to Article (3) which states: "A penalty of not less than one year and a fine of not less than one million dinars shall be imposed on anyone who publicly insults, incriminates, symbols or someone who is revered, glorified or respected by religious sects." That this article especially with many consider themselves sacred in Iraq now, explaining that the proposed amendment to the law of freedom of expression, a dictatorial text, and that this law to assassinate the freedom of expression and demonstration in Iraq. Some also pointed out that the group of corruption and its people are trying to protect their corruption and their thieves by passing this law and voting on it, stressing that this project is restricted to freedoms and contributes to the creation of new dictatorships under the pretext of (symbolism) and holiness! Just as it is a project that prevents journalists and media people from getting information, politicians help robbers more looting, as well as restricting our right to demonstrate. Article 1 (2): The right of citizens to obtain the information they seek from the official authorities in accordance with the law, especially the information related to their work and the content of any decision or policy concerning the public. Article 3 (2): The High Commission for Human Rights is empowered by law No. 53 of 2008 to decide citizens' complaints about the decisions of the administration to withhold information about them and after reviewing the complaints, may ask the concerned administration to provide the citizen with the required information if the students are in accordance with the law. Article (4): This law shall guarantee the freedom of scientific research through the conduct of scientific experiments and the use of means and conditions necessary for research as well as the free publication of the production of scientific activities. A group of "civilians" said: "The frenzied attack on freedoms is subject to the draft laws proposed by the previous government. Paradoxically, the draft law will be the freedom of expression, assembly and peaceful demonstration, and the essence of the proposed project is the expropriation of this constitutionally guaranteed right according to article 38 of the constitution. This article refers to the absolute right to freedom of expression by all means (freedom of the press, printing, advertising, media and publishing), freedom of assembly and peaceful demonstration and regulated by law (that is, the regulation includes only the last paragraph of the meeting and peaceful demonstration) And the hegemony and tyranny that is contrary to the essence of the constitutional article as the draft law provides deterrent penalties for the exercise of these freedoms through descriptions have a wide interpretation of the area is not acceptable and can be according to the political mood, as in the proposed amendment to Article 7 first The freedom of public meetings and peaceful demonstration, and gives the executive authorities the right to reject them for subjective reasons, such as article 13 II, which establishes the concepts of elastic expansion of the list of symbols and sanctities that are not criticized and stresses the penalties that result from criticizing the imprisonment and fine .. All Without real standards and controls. "This arbitrary context of the government's violation of the constitutional rights and freedoms of the citizen is accompanied by a failure of the state to carry out its responsibilities in maintaining the security, safety and relaxation of citizens in front of extrajudicial groups that kill and abduct without restraint," the group said in a statement. While the state is engaged in the attack on the remaining gains of citizens in the freedoms after the fall of the Baath and the tyrant in 2003. The suppression of freedoms and rights on both sides (groups outside the law and the state by their unconstitutional laws). Therefore, we call on all Iraqis to stand against this law and ask the President of the Republic to exercise his role as a guardian of the Constitution and to prevent infringement of its paragraphs in such a crude way. The spokesman of the Iraqi Literary Union Omar Saray said that the writers of Iraq reject the draft law on freedom of expression and peaceful demonstration and said: the protester does not enact a law for the demonstrator. He added: «It is necessary to draw attention to the seriousness of what the political forces are trying to control by trying to legislate a law bearing the name of freedom of expression and peaceful demonstration, while the content of the antibody, in many paragraphs starts repressing the right to express and express opinion, and narrowed the national forces in their peaceful protest Through pretending. As if the law was issued to be issued in the name of influential, which is drafted paragraphs in his favor, not (in the name of the people), as the laws have been issued, as if the current official within his stay in power at some level would be a constraint in time. The civil media activist Saadoun Mohsen Damad confirmed that they want us to hear, we do not see we do not speak, and said: «As this article, any meeting between a group of friends to discuss a political Shana can prepare a public meeting and be held accountable by law. And that all civil society activities, conferences and seminars will be obstructed in accordance with this law, where we will need to notify the "official administrative unit" to agree or refuse. He added: "Then where is there a meeting with political dimensions or demonstration can not be accused of threatening national security or public order and public morality?" For its part, confirmed the victory of Mubarak civil activist, to regulate the freedom of expression is a step towards restraint and muzzle the mouths, "I do not believe that these parliamentarians are patriots or know the meaning of patriotism, even if they do not want to legislate a law that is not acceptable to a simple human being or who is convinced, for example, of the proposed amendment to Article 7 (1) Head of the administrative unit and (5) days in advance to include an application "It is funny that the government can consider any demonstration to be a threat to national security, not public morals," he said. "We can not trust the parliamentarians because we do not trust the parliament, nor its committees, which try to pass the Freedom of Expression Act and demonstrate surreptitiously, and because we do not trust their statements, their duplications and their similar approaches to the tyrannical and tyrannical approach, we reject their law altogether and shout loudly: No to muzzle the mouths." The civil activist Tammam Adnan Hussein pointed out that the adoption of the law to limit the freedom of expression is impossible 100% !, and said: «I have read a lot of reactions raging about the possibility of passing the law restricting the freedom of expression, which will be voted by Parliament, which I believe the possibility of voting and the possibility of application Almost impossible. He explained that the law to be approved provides for punishment by imprisonment and fine for anyone who: attacked in one of the public ways the belief of one of the religious denominations or the ransom of rites, and anyone who deliberately disrupts the establishment of religious rites or ceremony or religious meeting or deliberately prevent or disable the establishment of, The publication and publication of a holy book on a religious sect in which a text deliberately purposed to alter its meaning or to derogate from its provisions or teachings, or publicly insulted a person or symbol or person subject to reverence, glorification or respect of a religious community and others. He added: "Because we are a democratic country, it is fundamentally impossible to apply any law that denounces dissimilarity and silences the voices of critics and critics, whatever it may be. Their kind and thought, and if a law has been passed on these qualities, there will be only one party, one religion and one sect ... and it is so simple and clear. " Finished

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