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Trial Adjourned to Thursday next Hashemi
On: Friday 5/4/2012 5:42
Baghdad / term
after the submission of the defense team for Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, a formal request to transfer his trial from the Criminal Court to the Federal Court, where there was to be the first session of his trial on Thursday, announced the postponement of the trial to the tenth of the month of May, the current, after about an hour on the date of its launch in Baghdad.
He was scheduled to testify on Thursday, the first trial of Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who is in Turkey to escape the charges relating to Article IV on the issues of terrorism included killings and kidnappings.
trial in public and allow the media to attend, but without recording devices or photography or communication devices, as is the case for those who wish the presence of this court, according to the statement by the Iraqi media source in the Federal Court.
The investigative panel on the issue Hashemi announced in the sixteenth of the month of February, about the involvement of the protection Hashemi implementation of 150 armed operation, including car bombings, improvised explosive devices and rocket launchers and targeting visitors Iraqis and Iranians and senior officers and members of the House of Representatives.
The Ministry of Interior at the end of the month of January the arrest of 16 people from the protection of al-Hashemi, on charges related to the implementation of assassinations against officers and judges, including a member of the Court of Cassation star Abdul Wahid Talabani in 2010, north of Baghdad . And television Iraqi semi-official confessions of a number of individuals to protect Hashemi admit charges of murder, kidnapping and the bombing of the blessing of the al-Hashemi in several areas in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
spokesman for the Supreme Judicial in Iraq, Abdul Sattar Bayraktar said that the number of crimes will be tried by the defendants issue Hashemi exceed three hundred, indicating that the number of defendants with a seventy-three, and added that the trial be at the court scene in ten in the morning in Baghdad will begin crimes assassination of General Manager in the National Security Service and the assassination of a lawyer and a senior officer in the Ministry of Interior.
He Aberkrad in a press statement yesterday that the judiciary completed most of the issues on Balhashima and his bodyguards, and has referred three crimes, including one case to the Central Criminal Court, which specializes in trial of al-Hashemi, Director of the office.
of her part, the Iraqi List, Hashemi's in her defense innocently Hashemi, through a team of lawyers, as stated by the spokesman for the list Iraqi Haider Mulla, led by Iyad Allawi, yesterday, said: "We are keen that there should be an independent professional judiciary." And that "the issue Hashemi there after a legal and a political dimension, and we were keen to go to address the political dimension and then leave to spend to address the issue legally without the intervention of any political party."
And the position of his list of the trial according to Mulla newspaper the world of Iraq: "If a provision of the competent court will signal that we have a judicial decision was political effects. " He added: "There are certain procedures for the office holders of sovereign and is not followed with the issue Hashemi, as an indicator of a new political dimension in his case." This was followed by "That's what he meant Mr. Hashimi when he asked the President to intervene to protect him."
Hashemi, who was moved with a number of his bodyguards to the province of Sulaymaniyah under the influence of the party of President Jalal Talabani, the Kurdistan region of Iraq, then moved to the province of Arbil, capital of the region under the influence of the President Massoud Barzani, the region after the announcement of the assassination of al-Hashemi's involvement to protect a nearby member of the Iraqi president appeals court star Talabani, Abdul Wahid in 2010. And student-Hashemi and then move his trial to the Kurdistan region of Iraq or the province of Kirkuk, but the Judicial Council refused his request and asked him to appear in Baghdad to defend himself.
warned Hashemi that his trial and set a date with the development of serious and influential on Iraq and its stability, and its aim to escalate the situation and abort find a political solution to the crisis, and predicted Hashemi be issued at the end of his court death sentence against him, where he said al-Hashemi told media from Istanbul, "do not rule out a verdict of death against me, and this mess, and if deprived of my right to defense will resort to the world worried about the reality of Iraq."
and expressed the hope that «Iraq is no longer a victim of hatred hatred one person wants to conduct the country to the brink of the abyss, as he described, and demanded that President Jalal Talabani, using its validity according to the constitution (as the guardian of the application of the Constitution, and to provide adequate protection to me by the Constitution, and that this is my right by As deputy him).
go to Qatar and then Saudi Arabia, launched the remarks against his political opponents, led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and raised his resentment of many political parties in Iraq, especially State of Law coalition headed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who called the State of Qatar extradite him but she refused Therefore, considering that demand, "contrary to diplomatic norms," and that the latter "is still responsible and enjoy diplomatic immunity," the absence of any court judgment against him, but the office of President Jalal Talabani said that Hashemi had left the country without obtaining the approval of the President, and confirmed that the statements launched by the outside do not match with the vision of the Taliban and undermine the important gains achieved by convening Iraq's Arab summit conference, according to the recipe. A coalition of state law, see Hashemi, he stands behind the charges against him and insisted that his trial policy, believes that al-Hashemi if he was innocent of the present to the court and defended himself, saying, Abdul Salam al-Maliki MP for the coalition of state law that does not appear Hashemi before the court will give to eliminate room broader rule it, as that if he was innocent of the present. "and stressed that" this demonstrates the involvement of al-Hashemi crimes against him and therefore did not come to court, "he said.
The issue Hashemi and his bodyguards, provoked disagreements among Iraqi factions, asked some of them settled by a political according to what was stated by a member of Maliki's coalition's Corporation, and observers expect the trial to increase the gap between the space-Hashimi Iraqi political blocs that rival is preparing to hold a national meeting to resolve the political crisis afflicting the country.
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