An agreement to pass the “general amnesty” amendment within 6 months of forming the government

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[size=52]An agreement to pass the “general amnesty” amendment within 6 months of forming the government[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad/ Firas Adnan[/size]
[size=45]The Sunni forces are counting on approving the amendment of the general amnesty law issued in 2016 within the first six months of forming the government, stressing that this matter will be included in the ministerial curriculum.[/size]
[size=45]It seems that the coordinating framework is in agreement with others to pass the law, provided that terrorists and theft of public money are not included.[/size]
[size=45]A member of the Legal Committee, Abdel Karim Abtan, said, "We launched a signature campaign to implement the second amendment to the General Amnesty Law No. 27 of 2016".[/size]
[size=45]And Abtan, a representative of the Sovereignty Alliance, added that "the decision to include the accused in a pardon or not will be left to the judiciary, and Parliament has no jurisdiction in that."[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that “there is a will to do justice to the innocent by re-investigating those who have a medical report that proves that his statements were extracted from him under duress or that he was convicted based on the statements of an accused witness as a witness and other topics that would restore the oppressed’s right.”[/size]
[size=45]Abtan stressed that “the work of this amendment after its approval will be with new mechanisms that differ from what it was in the past, by assigning the task to the courts of appeal and the trial courts, with the participation of the public prosecution, and ensuring the right to defend the accused.”[/size]
[size=45]He explained, "Everyone is waiting for the formation of the government in order to include this amendment within the ministerial curriculum that the House of Representatives will vote on, while granting confidence to the ministers during the next few days."[/size]
[size=45]Abtan went on to say that "the political blocs have a kind of agreement and understanding on the necessity of enacting this law as soon as possible."[/size]
[size=45]For his part, former MP Haider Al-Mulla stated, "Sunni forces support the formation of the government of Muhammad Shia Al-Sudani, and they have set a set of demands within their paper in the State Administration Alliance."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Mulla added, "This paper should be implemented within six months from the date of the formation of the government, the most prominent of which is the enactment of a law amending the general amnesty, transferring the file of accountability of justice to a judicial file, returning the displaced, including the displaced from Jurf al-Sakhar, achieving real balance and reconstruction."[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that "the issue of a general amnesty is one of the important issues that should be addressed through a law that guarantees the rights of the innocent and removes injustice from them."[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, Ali Al-Fatlawi, a member of the coordination framework, said that "there are many Iraqis waiting for the parliament to issue legislation that would do justice to the innocent in prisons."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Fatlawi added, "The coordination framework has no problem with a new amendment to the general amnesty law, provided that it does not include terrorists who participated in the killing of the Iraqi people."[/size]
[size=45]He called for "sorting out terrorist crimes from the general amnesty, as well as for those involved in theft crimes against public funds. They, too, should not be included in the amnesty."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Fatlawi concluded, “The political blocs agreed to make this expected amendment, provided that it would not be a reason to expel terrorists and steal public money.”[/size]
[size=45]It is noteworthy that Iraq had previously passed a general amnesty law in 2008, and another law in 2016 that was amended only in 2017.[/size]
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