Human Rights reveal controversial exceptions to the amnesty law

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 Since 02/19/2016 22:11 pm (Baghdad time)
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It revealed to the parliamentary committee for human rights, for exceptions draft general amnesty law, pointing to send the Committee's observations on the law to the Parliamentary Legal Committee. 
And Nhout Committee member Kurdistan Alliance MP dry longings in a statement, received / balances News / to "a difference of views between the members of the House of Representatives on an exception covered by the law of amnesty No. 19 for the year 2008, or a special pardon, where some lawmakers find to give them another chance , while others oppose it. " 
The dry, "The Human Rights Commission did not participate in the amnesty law has objected to this, and sent written comments to the Legal Committee for discussion and consideration and inclusion." 
She added that "the Human Rights Commission had proposed in the first article of the law which states that relieved a general amnesty for Iraqi Mahkmom the death penalty or a penalty, or in one of deprivation of liberty measures or a fine, to raise the fine because they are dealt with in Article III which it raises from the first article with pay Mapzmth to the state treasury requirement of inclusion in the law. " 
She dry "as the Commission proposed, not to the inclusion of all kinds of money-laundering offenses in the law, not just the crimes of money laundering with a view to financing terrorism, as stated in the letter of the law." 
She continued, that the Commission proposed "raising the fifth paragraph, which is within the exceptions" where he states that he "does not include all of the insults the House of Representatives, does not restrict who wants to criticize the House of Representatives," noting that he "is not justice that does not include amnesty only because he is insulting parliament" . 
The dry, it was "in paragraph 11 of the Act, which speaks of, crimes of bribery, embezzlement, and theft of state funds and crimes of financial and administrative corruption, the Commission proposed a condition, which is to be fined double the six times the amount that was embezzled or stolen, or that includes actor amnesty to recover the amount that was embezzled to the state treasury condition. " 
With regard to paragraph 14 of the General Amnesty Law, dry for "The Human Rights Commission representative it has revealed suggested the inclusion of counterfeiters primary certificate for the purpose of appointment exclusively and earn a living for low-income, and therefore, the Commission is so rigged, but does not equate with counterfeiters other certificates for senior positions in Country". 
She also pointed out that "the exceptions contained in the law, any crime that will not be coverage for clemency terrorism offenses, and offenses against the external security of the state and the rules of procedure, and the crimes of possession of and trade in silenced weapons, and weapons with special classification, and offenses against the statutory bodies, such as the killing of the President and Prime Minister , or forcing the president to a particular work, as well as human trafficking crimes. " 
She also stressed that "the former regime, criminals are not bringing them a general amnesty." 
She dry that "exceptions that do not include an amnesty is also the kidnappings, and crimes of smuggling of prisoners and those arrested, or harboring the convicted for the crimes, in addition to drug crimes, and crimes of sodomy, adultery and incest, crimes of embezzlement and theft of state funds, and crimes of financial and administrative corruption, and crimes of smuggling antiquities and money laundering crimes, and crimes of counterfeiting. " 
Dry and concluded by saying, "We wish the law was passed in the current period because it includes so many exceptions as to achieve some sort of balance between the families of the victims and prisoners, and must be seen from the viewpoint of a humanitarian, not political, in order to reduce the number of detainees and prisoners, does not mean that the perpetrators of terrorist crimes serious crimes, but the crimes that can be relieved by and reintegrated to society again. " 
He was vice president of the Legal Committee in the Iraqi Council of Representatives Muhsin al-Sadoun said on Thursday the 18th of February this month that the number of detainees in Iraqi prisons is about 30 thousand, including 12 thousand are condemned as "terrorism." 
Also said the number of people who Ciecmlhm general amnesty currently before Parliament Act thousands doomed to no more than five because of the fourteen exceptions contained in the law, calling to find a proper legal formulas to include other numbers of prisoners .. noting that the bill in its current form does not satisfy the ambition of the current phase . 
The bill provides the latest with amendments before the House of Representatives for a vote, that the reason behind the legislation designed to "provide an opportunity for those who cover of Iraqis to commit certain crimes to return to his senses and integration in social life and the spirit of tolerance and repair of Zell on the right path to pardon him and to contribute to all Iraqis in building their country. " 
The law excludes from the amnesty "Whoever carried out the bombing against Iraqi citizens or Iraqi security forces and against politicians, judges, doctors, university professors and public officials." 
Also excludes coverage: 
• smuggling of antiquities crimes 
• drug trafficking offenses 
• incest 
• rape and sodomy crimes 
• currency counterfeiting crimes 
• offenses against internal and external security state 
• bribery and embezzlement crimes 
• forgery of certificates that led to Mzorha get a job as general manager of crimes and older or got the membership of the House of Representatives or a member of the board of the province or is a minister and who was Badrjtah 
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