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Iraqi government announces its desire to abolish the death penalty (PFP)

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Twilight News / announced and the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights, on Thursday, a desire to cancel the death penalty for those convicted of this provision, as pointed out seeking the implementation of international resolutions that ensure the protection of people in the country.



altHe said Human Rights Minister Mohammed Xiaa Sudanese in a statement during a meeting with a member of Britain's House of Lords Baroness Helena Kennedy, who is currently visiting Iraq that "the Iraqi Penal Qnon 48 crime punishable by death penalty does not apply today in Iraq, but the right of those convicted of terrorist crimes."

He added that "there are serious desire by the government to suspend the death penalty," adding that "casualties, which exceeded 70,000 thousand killed and 15,000 missing as a result of the terrorist attacks which put pressure on the government as well as popular demands lowered comeuppance these terrorists, murderers, note that the judiciary Iraq is keen to apply the death penalty and in accordance with legal safeguards and procedures minutes. "

He pointed out that teams Ministry and continuously visit prisons abruptly and interviewing prisoners in private and proven violation of any right of any prisoner, is lodging a complaint to the public prosecution and the imposition of sanctions disciplinary and sometimes up to a prison sentence and has already been the application of the death penalty against some of the officers and guards Prison abusers. "

He concluded Sudanese saying that "Iraq and through joining the many international conventions, such as the Convention against Torture, the protection of persons from enforced disappearance, and persons with disabilities, working on the organization of laws guaranteeing the application of those conventions, including protecting the rights of people in Iraq as well as Iraq struggles through or amended legislation to liquidate the legacy of the dictatorial regime dictatorial and make such legislation conform with international standards of human rights. "

Announced Iraqi Justice Minister Hassan al-Shammari, the first on Tuesday, on the implementation of the death sentence against 19 convicted of crimes of "terrorism."

The Amnesty International had earlier announced, that the use of the death penalty in Iraq reached its highest level since the overthrow of former President Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Solving Iraq ranked third in the world in executions, according to reports of human rights organizations involved in the fight against the death penalty.


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