The legal committee reveals a new amendment to the general amnesty

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[size=52]The legal committee reveals a new amendment to the general amnesty[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Hussein Hatem[/size]
[size=45]The Parliamentary Legal Committee intends to reformulate the general amnesty law and move it under the dome of Parliament in a new way, while indicating that it seeks justice for the oppressed who received arbitrary sentences in Iraqi prisons.[/size]
[size=45]After 2003, Iraq witnessed two general amnesty laws, the first was enacted in 2008 and the second in 2016, as well as an amendment issued one year after the second general amnesty.[/size]
[size=45]The head of the Parliamentary Legal Committee, Muhammad Anouz, said in an interview with (Al-Mada), that "there is a proposal to amend the general amnesty law, and to reconsider its form."[/size]
[size=45]Anouz added, “The legal committee’s job is to study the law and submit it to the parliament’s presidency,” noting that “inclusion of the law, discussing it and putting it on the parliament’s agenda is the prerogative of the parliament speaker and his two deputies.”[/size]
[size=45]The head of the Legal Committee indicated that "the committee has 120 laws carried over from previous sessions, and it needs time to arrange the papers for those projects."[/size]
[size=45]Anouz explained, "The general amnesty law needs meetings and contacts with the judicial authorities and the Supreme Judicial Council to discuss previous facts and dimensions to reach a viable formula."[/size]
[size=45]In the middle of last year, the Human Rights Commission announced that it had registered about 76,000 people, including 49,000 convicts, 3,000 women, and 2,000 juveniles, in detention centers and prisons of the Reform Department.[/size]
[size=45]According to Law No. 14 of 2018, most prisons belong to the Ministry of Justice (Juveniles and Reform), but there are detention and detention centers affiliated with the Ministry of the Interior, Anti-Terrorism, the Ministry of Defense, and the Intelligence, as well as special detention centers for the major corrupt.[/size]
[size=45]In turn, a member of the Parliamentary Legal Committee, Youssef Al-Sabawi, said in an interview with (Al-Mada), that "the House of Representatives is proceeding with approving the general amnesty law, and there will be amendments to the wording of the law after the first reading."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sabawi added, "The law does not represent a final amnesty, but rather a re-investigation and trial."[/size]
[size=45]A member of the Parliamentary Legal Committee pointed out that "the main goal of the law will focus on sorting out the innocent and the criminals."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sabawi indicated that "there is a determination and determination to pass the law to lift the injustice of many Iraqis in prisons," noting that "it will be included on the agenda of the upcoming sessions in order to read and vote on it."[/size]
[size=45]The member of the House of Representatives explained that “the law will approve a fair formula,” noting that many “prisoners are oppressed as a result of slander, secret informants, and malicious lawsuits.”[/size]
[size=45]During the first quarter of this year, Minister of Justice Salar Abdul Sattar confirmed that the amnesty laws included a retrial of the suspects in their cases, while noting that the law does not include those convicted of terrorism cases.[/size]
[size=45]Abdul Sattar said, in a speech that was followed by (Al-Mada), that "there are guarantees for the convicted through the completion of evidence, the acquisition of the judgment, the crossing of the stage of judgment and granting him the right to obtain a lawyer."[/size]
[size=45]He added that "the death penalty in Iraqi law includes crimes that are considered severe, especially terrorist," noting that "the death penalty is for those who committed the most heinous crimes."[/size]
[size=45]He explained that “the amnesty laws include a retrial of the suspects in their cases,” noting that “there are amendments to the general amnesty law for the years 2008 and 2016,” noting that “the amnesty law does not include terrorism cases or corruption cases.”[/size]
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