UNHCR's ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES FOR ASSESSING THE ...
UNHCR's ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES FOR ASSESSING THE ...
UNHCR's ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES FOR ASSESSING THE ...
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
• 1 July – 31 August 2006: According to UNAMI HRO, at least three judges and seven<br />
lawyers were killed, another female judge was kidnapped, two others survived<br />
assassination attempts while another received death threats and moved to another part<br />
of the country. 989<br />
• 30 August 2006: Gunmen murdered Nadiya Mohammed Hasan, the Director General of<br />
the Public Notary in the Ministry of Justice, her driver and two bodyguards in<br />
Baghdad. 990<br />
• 29 July 2006: Salah Abdel-Kader, a lawyer and professor in Baghdad and known for<br />
working on cases involving “honour killings” and child custody, was shot dead in his<br />
office. It was reported that a note was found near his body saying: “This is the price to<br />
pay for those who do not follow Islamic laws and defend what is dreadful and dirty.”<br />
Reportedly, he had been threatened several times previously. 991<br />
• 21 June 2006: One of the lawyers defending former President Saddam Hussein, Khamis<br />
Al-Obaidi, was abducted by individuals dressed as police officers from his home in<br />
Baghdad’s Adhamiya District. He was later found murdered in an area near Sadr<br />
City. 992<br />
• 21 May 2006: Judge Akrem Jumaa Al-Maamori, from Al-Khark court in Baghdad, was<br />
killed. 993<br />
• 12 May 2006: Ahmed Midhat Al-Mahmoud, a lawyer and son of the President of the<br />
High Judicial Council, was killed with two of his bodyguards in Baghdad. 994<br />
• 11 May 2006: A judicial investigator of the CCCI, Firas Mohammed, was killed in<br />
Baghdad. 995<br />
• 9 May 2006: Mohaimen Al-Mahmood, a judge in Al-Adhamiya First Instance Court,<br />
was killed in front of his home by unidentified gunmen and Iskandar Al-Jiboury,<br />
a judge in the CCCI, was allegedly poisoned along with two of his bodyguards. 996<br />
• 25 April 2006: The President of the Tribunal of First Instance in Baghdad was killed. 997<br />
• 5 April 2006: An investigative judge was killed in Baghdad. 998<br />
• 3 April 2006: Lawyer Matr Kaabi was gunned down by armed men in the centre of<br />
Basrah. 999<br />
• 30 March 2006: Gunmen killed lawyer Maymuna Hamdani in Basrah, riddling her body<br />
with nine bullets according to the police. She was a prominent lawyer in the city and the<br />
legal advisor for the municipal electricity department. 1000<br />
989<br />
UNAMI HRO, August 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 7, see above footnote 26.<br />
990<br />
Ibid.<br />
991<br />
IRIN, Iraq: Lawyers killed for defending cases “against Islam”, 16 August 2006,<br />
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=60380.<br />
992<br />
BBC News, Saddam defence lawyer shot dead, 21 June 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_<br />
east/5101162.stm.<br />
993<br />
UNAMI HRO, June 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 5, see above footnote 27.<br />
994<br />
AP, Son of top Iraqi judge shot dead, 15 May 2006, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/<br />
archive/archive?ArchiveId=22745.<br />
995<br />
UNAMI HRO, June 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 5, see above footnote 27.<br />
996 Ibid.<br />
997 Ibidem, April 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 10, see above footnote 74.<br />
998 Ibid.<br />
999 AP, “Hostile fire” downs US helicopter in Iraq, 3 April 2006, http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/<br />
200604/s1606728.htm.<br />
193