When the Iraqi judiciary is subject to the power of politics

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[size=52]When the Iraqi judiciary is subject to the power of politics[/size]

[size=45]Abdul Latif Al Saadoun[/size]
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[size=45]As long as you are following what is happening in Iraq these days, you have nothing but to laugh or cry, and the matter is the same, as long as the judiciary there is subject to the authority of politics, and as long as the law is absent from every aspect, and as long as the judiciary have consented for themselves to be tools in the hands of “Whales”, horizons and militiamen, and it is not more painful than for this important facility to fall under the feet of politicians, in order to achieve their own ends.[/size]
[size=45]And if something is something to mention, we must mention here with good the British Prime Minister after World War II, Winston Churchill, whose saying became, for example, as he contemplates the devastation that befell his country: “Do not worry about Britain as long as the judiciary is fine,” and also General Charles De Gaulle, who asked about the state of the judiciary when he entered Paris after its liberation from the Nazi occupation, and when he was told that the French judiciary had not lost its integrity yet, turned to his minister, novelist and thinker Andre Malraux, to tell him, “We can therefore now start the battle to build France again.”[/size]
The men of the judiciary agreed for themselves to be tools in the hands of "whales", hordes, and militiamen
[size=45]We recall the history of Mesopotamia since the Sumerian era, and we read that its men devised laws that establish justice and achieve equality, starting with the reforms of Orkagina and the laws of Nimrod and then the law of Ashnona, which is the oldest laws in human history, up to the laws of Hammurabi that formed the beginning towards the direction of the countries of the world to establish a system A fair legal and independent judiciary.[/size]
[size=45]We also recall the era of the kings who ruled Iraq since the twenties of the last century, where we see the interest of the political elite at that time in the judiciary and seeking to promote the principle of its independence from any influences, and non-interference in its rulings.At the time, an important tradition was established, when a plaque was placed behind the judge’s seat, on which was written the wisdom that Ibn Khaldun said, “Justice is the foundation of the king,” to indicate that building societies and states begins with the judiciary that establishes justice, enforces justice, and punishes criminals. The republics that succeeded the era of kings have witnessed, in one way or another, blatant violations in the field of justice in more than one case and trial. Respecting the law and seeking to raise awareness of its role in the rise and progress of peoples was the dominant feature of the institution of the judiciary and of the judges themselves, but the great calamity What befell Iraq and its people in the twenty years that followed the American invasion, and Iran’s “agents” seizing power and decision-making, was the inclination of the Iraqi courts towards issuing rulings that not only violate laws and customs, but also establish chaos and impede the country’s advancement and development due to the submission of the judicial body to the will and desires of politicians .This is not evidenced by the rulings issued against a number of senior public money thieves, including ministers, representatives and people with special degrees, who openly boasted in front of television cameras that they bribed and took advantage of their positions and shared the “cake” with their counterparts, (were they underestimating and mocking their citizens who did not have a squalor? ?), but the judiciary in the end forgave them their sins, dropped them from the responsibility of their sins, and found unreasonable justifications to pardon them, and they returned as innocent as their mothers gave birth to them![/size]

[size=45]The court dropped charges against fugitive politicians due to what was said at the time about their involvement in terrorism, and some of them exploiting public money.[/size]

[size=45]And in the new decisions of the judiciary that Iraqis are still joking about, a former minister and three of his assistants were sentenced to one year in prison with a suspended sentence, and a fine of only seven hundred dollars on the background of an incident of corruption and theft of public money, in which the waste amounted to eight hundred million dollars, and the court justified its decision that the convicts” They had never been convicted of a crime before,” and because she was convinced (no one knows how this conviction was generated) that “they will not return to committing a similar crime,” this happened in the wake of another court’s decision to sentence a starving child under the age of twelve who was accused of stealing a box Paper napkins in prison, as did Jean Valjean, the hero of Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables", who was sentenced to prison for stealing a loaf of bread.[/size]
[size=45]And in the new “series” of the independent Iraqi judiciary (!!) that the Integrity Court dropped charges against fugitive politicians against the background of what was said at the time about their involvement in terrorism, and some of them exploiting public money without the court providing a justification for its decision, and it is said that this was mediated by well-known politicians And within the causes of the conflict between the parties to the “political process” that is on the verge of death.[/size]
[size=45]Thus in Iraq, if the minister stole, they left him and released him, and if a hungry child stole a box of tissues in order to exchange it for a loaf of bread, they set the limit on him[/size]
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