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Annex VII: Attacks on Judicial Personnel
The following incidents were reported since January 2005:
• 10 December 2006: lawyer Nawfel Al-Chalabi was kidnapped in front of the New
Baghdad Courthouse. 979
• 23 November 2006: the Director of Legal Affairs in the Council of Ministers, Ali
Muthafar Abdel Wahhab, was shot dead by gunmen in front of his house in Hay Al-
Dawoudi in Al-Mansour area in Baghdad. 980
• 19 November 2006: Judge Muthafer Al-Obaidy, who also worked with the Council of
Ministers, was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from his house in Al-Khadra area in
Baghdad. 981
• 15 November 2006: Judge Naim Al-Akeli, head of the Al-Kharkh Criminal Court in
Baghdad was killed by a roadside bomb. 982
• 2 November 2006: Gunmen killed Tariq Abid Ali, a judge in Baqouba’s Criminal
Court, along with his son Ziyad. 983
• On 16 October 2006: Emad Al-Faroon, the brother of the Chief Prosecutor in the
current Anfal trial, was killed by gunmen in front of his wife, in the neighbourhood of
Al-Jamaa in Baghdad. The couple had earlier left their home as it had become unsafe
for them and had only returned to collect personal possessions. 984
• 9 October 2006: Mithat Salih, a public notary in the town of Madaen, was shot dead on
his way to work. 985
• 4 October 2006: Abdel Muttaleb Al-Haidari, a prominent lawyer, was shot dead by
unknown assailants inside his house in Al-Amiriyah area in Baghdad. 986
• 29 September 2006: Kadhim Abdel Hussein, the brother-in-law of Mohammed Oreibi
Al-Khalifa, the chief judge in the Anfal trial, was shot dead along with his son, while
two other relatives were severely wounded. The victims were shot when Kadhim, who
had left his home several months earlier due to security risks, went to pick up some
possessions. 987
• 3 September 2006: The body of Abdel Monem Yassin Hussein, an assistant to lawyer
Badih Aref Izzat, one of the defence lawyers in the trial of Saddam Hussein, was
reportedly found in the Medico-Legal Institute of Baghdad. He had been kidnapped on
29 August 2006. 988
979
UNAMI HRO, December 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 15, see above footnote 10.
980
Ibid.
981
Ibid.
982
Ibid.
983
Reuters Alertnet, Factbox – Security developments in Iraq, Nov 2, 2 November 2006,
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL0270233920061103.
984
UNAMI HRO, October 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 9, see above footnote 66.
985
Ibid.
986
Ibid.
987
Ibid.; BBC News, Saddam judge relative shot dead, 29 September 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
middle_east/5391674.stm.
988
UNAMI HRO, October 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 9, see above footnote 66.
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