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Hashemi told a news conference booked to return to Erbil Tuesday but postponed at the request of [a colleague]
Friday, 04 May / May 2012 22:47
[Baghdad - where]
Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi to be prosecuted at a news conference in Istanbul this afternoon that reservation to return to Erbil on Tuesday, but canceled a booking at the last minute at the request of a colleague did not mention his name.
The news agency said all of Iraq [where] from Istanbul that al-Hashemi, who lives in Turkey since early last month, he told reporters that his colleague asked him to "postpone the return for a few days, waiting for the atmosphere of dialogue more appropriate in Iraq," he said.
Hashemi said he decided then to stay in Turkey for a few more days, and he would hold talks with representatives of universities and non-governmental organizations during the coming days.
Hashemi spoke to reporters about the trial in absentia to him and which was scheduled on Thursday and postponed to next Thursday, May 10 criticized his trial before the Criminal Court and said he should be tried by an independent tribunal is biased.
Hashemi was expressed earlier in his desire to be tried before an independent and impartial in Kirkuk, Erbil, or instead of the Central Criminal Court in Baghdad.
Hashemi told reporters he did not attend the court hearing yesterday and will not attend the meeting next Thursday, adding that his life is at risk in Baghdad.
Hashemi expressed his readiness to attend the trial as long as the circumstances of time and place appropriate and said that the media describes as an exiled politician is not the case.
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