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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. 192
• 1 July – 31 August 2006: According to UNAMI HRO, at least three judges and seven lawyers were killed, another female judge was kidnapped, two others survived assassination attempts while another received death threats and moved to another part of the country. 989 • 30 August 2006: Gunmen murdered Nadiya Mohammed Hasan, the Director General of the Public Notary in the Ministry of Justice, her driver and two bodyguards in Baghdad. 990 • 29 July 2006: Salah Abdel-Kader, a lawyer and professor in Baghdad and known for working on cases involving “honour killings” and child custody, was shot dead in his office. It was reported that a note was found near his body saying: “This is the price to pay for those who do not follow Islamic laws and defend what is dreadful and dirty.” Reportedly, he had been threatened several times previously. 991 • 21 June 2006: One of the lawyers defending former President Saddam Hussein, Khamis Al-Obaidi, was abducted by individuals dressed as police officers from his home in Baghdad’s Adhamiya District. He was later found murdered in an area near Sadr City. 992 • 21 May 2006: Judge Akrem Jumaa Al-Maamori, from Al-Khark court in Baghdad, was killed. 993 • 12 May 2006: Ahmed Midhat Al-Mahmoud, a lawyer and son of the President of the High Judicial Council, was killed with two of his bodyguards in Baghdad. 994 • 11 May 2006: A judicial investigator of the CCCI, Firas Mohammed, was killed in Baghdad. 995 • 9 May 2006: Mohaimen Al-Mahmood, a judge in Al-Adhamiya First Instance Court, was killed in front of his home by unidentified gunmen and Iskandar Al-Jiboury, a judge in the CCCI, was allegedly poisoned along with two of his bodyguards. 996 • 25 April 2006: The President of the Tribunal of First Instance in Baghdad was killed. 997 • 5 April 2006: An investigative judge was killed in Baghdad. 998 • 3 April 2006: Lawyer Matr Kaabi was gunned down by armed men in the centre of Basrah. 999 • 30 March 2006: Gunmen killed lawyer Maymuna Hamdani in Basrah, riddling her body with nine bullets according to the police. She was a prominent lawyer in the city and the legal advisor for the municipal electricity department. 1000 989 UNAMI HRO, August 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 7, see above footnote 26. 990 Ibid. 991 IRIN, Iraq: Lawyers killed for defending cases “against Islam”, 16 August 2006, http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=60380. 992 BBC News, Saddam defence lawyer shot dead, 21 June 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_ east/5101162.stm. 993 UNAMI HRO, June 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 5, see above footnote 27. 994 AP, Son of top Iraqi judge shot dead, 15 May 2006, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/ archive/archive?ArchiveId=22745. 995 UNAMI HRO, June 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 5, see above footnote 27. 996 Ibid. 997 Ibidem, April 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 10, see above footnote 74. 998 Ibid. 999 AP, “Hostile fire” downs US helicopter in Iraq, 3 April 2006, http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/ 200604/s1606728.htm. 193
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A. Current Situat
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and gatherings, Shi’ite religious
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Government Officials and Other Pers
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Iraqi Asylum-Seekers From Central a
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expand on the legal and policy guid
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The general chaos following the inv
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countries. While a good part of the
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evenues. 41 An understanding of var
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Article 140 of the Constitution cal
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the Middle East in terms of women
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epealed the CPA’s decision to sus
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The Iraqi judiciary continues to be
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Al-Sunna. In addition, members of t
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military commander in Iraq, General
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IV. PARTICULAR GROUPS AT RISK A. Re
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to Osama Bin Laden, the Shi’ites
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Shi’ite militias on the other han
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underscored how explosive the confl
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Ninewa Plains in particular have be
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efuge in the three Northern Governo
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an international court. 261 Several
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The alleged main perpetrators of at
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prohibition to kill, lie, commit ad
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Mandaeans as belonging to the “Pe
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have found refuge with the Sabaean-
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distributed to homes in Baghdad gav
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KRG. Mr. Falak Al-Deen Kakai, senio
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“those Iraqis who had lost their
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government offices, 441 and changin
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security, of transferring hundreds
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2. Roma (Kawliyah) 461 a) Introduct
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Ghraib and was known for its strong
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CPA began to allow some vetted ex-B
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een killed in Iraq and another 491
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Acts committed against employees or
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E. Government Officials and Other P
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3. Persons Opposing the Ruling Part
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3,250 professors had fled Iraq sinc
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There are a number of possible moti
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inside the media compound, refrain
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3. Artists Iraqi artists, actors an
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groups for not giving priority to t
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population at large and bring the c
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after their release. 660 UNAMI HRO
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evidence that over forty people had
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V. ELIGIBILITY FOR INTERNATIONAL PR
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those countries, even only on a tem
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violence on a daily basis. Ordinary
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cause. 733 More than one Convention
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C. Exclusion From International Ref
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