Elaph revealed that the new judge in Saddam’s court is not a judge

In a tele­phone call from Bagh­dad, a judi­cial source said today that the atmos­phere of frus­tra­tion pre­vails in the Iraqi Supreme Crim­i­nal Court among judges and pros­e­cu­tors because of gov­ern­ment inter­fer­ence and appoint­ing a new judge.

The source said that Aribi was not a mem­ber of the Inter­na­tional Crim­i­nal Court, never served as a judge at any time pre­vi­ously, and have no expe­ri­ence in courts, espe­cially in such an impor­tant court

The source pointed out that the deci­sion to remove Amri and the appoint­ment of the suc­ces­sor has been done with the con­sent of Prime Min­is­ter Nuri al-Maliki after meet­ing with the Pres­i­dent of the Crim­i­nal Court. He explained that even a deci­sion has not yet been offi­cially issued to appoint him in the office.

Wael Abdel Latif, a mem­ber of Iraqi par­lia­ment said: The gov­ern­ment had always advo­cated the inde­pen­dence of the judi­ciary, but with this deci­sion the gov­ern­ment has put its exec­u­tive author­ity over the judiciary.

9 Comments

  1. Keld Bach September 24th, 2006

    You keep amaz­ing me, LB ;-) It seems the the Iraqi pup­pet gov­ern­ment has adopted very well to Amer­i­can “democracy”.

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New judge in Saddam’s court is not a judge

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