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• 4 December 2005: Judge Midhat Al-Mahmoud, President of the High Judicial Council, survived a suicide bomb attack against his home. 1001 • 8 November 2005: Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying two lawyers defending Saddam Hussein’s half-brother Barzan Ibrahim Al-Tikriti and former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, in the Dujail trial. Adel Al-Zubeidi was killed and Thamer Hamoud Al-Khuzaie was wounded in the incident. 1002 • 20 October 2005: A day after the start of the Dujail trial, in which former President Saddam Hussein and seven others stand accused of the killing of 148 Shi’ites, Defence Attorney Saadun Janabi was murdered in Baghdad. 1003 • 17 August 2005: Jasim Waheeb, an investigative judge at the Appellate Court of Al- Karkh, and his driver were shot to death in Baghdad’s Al-Doura neighbourhood. 1004 • 17 June 2005: A judge and his driver were killed in Mosul City by unknown gunmen. 1005 • 3 March 2005: Judge Barawiz Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Merani and lawyer, Aryan Mahmoud Al-Merani, both working with the Iraqi High Tribunal tasked to try Saddam Hussein and former members of his government, were killed by gunmen outside their home in Adhamiya. The killings came one day after the court issued referrals for five former regime members for crimes against humanity. It is possible that the killings were related to the Kurdish ethnicity of the victims. 1006 • 2 March 2005: A criminal court judge involved in human rights cases was shot dead in front of his house. His lawyer brother was also killed. 1007 • 26 January 2005: Senior judge Qais Hashim Shameri and his driver were killed by gunmen. Jaish Ansar Al-Sunna claimed responsibility in a Web posting, calling the judge “one of the heads of infidelity and apostasy of the new Iraqi government”. 1008 1000 AP, Bakers, lawyer among five killed in Iraq attacks, 30 March 2006, http://www.khaleejtimes. com/displayArticle.asp?col=&section=focusoniraq&xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/March/focusoniraq_March1 35.xml. 1001 Ibidem, Son of top Iraqi judge shot dead, see above footnote 994. 1002 BBC News, Saddam trial lawyer is shot dead, 8 November 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ middle_east/4417948.stm. 1003 Kamal Taha, Saddam lawyers determined to defend him despite threats, Middle East Online, 2 November 2006, http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php?refid=DH-S-02-11-2006&article=11507. 1004 Arabic News, Judge killed, Muslim Scholars commision attacked, 19 August 2005, http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/050819/2005081906.html. 1005 Ibidem, Iraqi judge killed in Iraq, 17 June 2005, http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/ 050617/2005061702.html. 1006 Robert Worth, Judge killed before Saddam trial, Agencies, 3 March 2005, http://www.theage.com.au/news/Iraq/Judge-killed-before-Saddam-trial/2005/03/02/1109700536629.html; AP, Judge, lawyer on Iraq war crimes tribunal killed, 2 March 2005, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7064658/. 1007 Ibid. 1008 AP, Video shows American hostage; judge killed in clashes, 26 January 2005, http://www.usatoday.com/ news/world/iraq/2005-01-25-voter-safety_x.htm. 194
Annex VIII: Attacks on Athletes and Sports Officials The following incidents were reported in the media since January 2006: • 26 January 2007: The body of well-known Shi’ite boxer Hassan Hadi was found in Haifa Street, a Sunni-dominated neighbourhood of Baghdad, after he had been kidnapped some days earlier. 1009 • December 2006: Iraq’s Olympic cycling coach was killed after gunmen kidnapped him from his home. 1010 • December 2006: The body of Hadib Majhoul, head of the popular Talaba club and a member of the Iraqi Soccer Federation, was found dead after he was seized by gunmen while driving to work. 1011 • 1 November 2006: Armed men seized Khalid Nejim, the basketball federation chief who also was a coach for the national basketball team, and Issam Khalef, who coached blind athletes, from a youth club on Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad. 1012 • November 2006: A blind Iraqi athlete and a Paralympics coach were kidnapped, but were released unharmed after sports officials said their abductors determined neither was linked to the Sunni insurgency. 1013 • 9 October 2006: Hazim Hussein, an Iraqi international soccer referee, was kidnapped by unidentified assailants as he left the Iraqi Federation of Football in Baghdad’s northeastern Shaab Stadium. According to the head of the Iraqi Referee Association, the kidnappers had demanded a US $200,000 ransom. 1014 • 6 October 2006: Gunmen killed Naseer Shamil, a former Iraqi national volleyball player, in his shop in Baghdad. 1015 • 3 September 2006: Ghanim Ghudayer, a popular Iraqi soccer player of Baghdad’s Air Force Club and member of Iraq’s Olympic team was kidnapped by unknown assailants in the Al-Amil neighbourhood. His whereabouts remain unknown. 1016 • July 2006: Iraq’s national soccer coach, Akram Ahmed Salman, resigned after receiving death threats against him and his family warning him against continued training of the 1009 AP, Iraqi boxer abducted, killed, 26 January 2007, http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/175293. 1010 Ibidem, Cycling coach latest victim of violence in Iraq, 21 December 2006, http://sports.espn.go.com/ oly/cycling/news/story?id=2704659&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines. 1011 AP, Gunmen Kidnap Soccer Official in Baghdad, 1 December 2006, http://www.wtop.com/?nid=157& sid=992412. 1012 Ibidem, Gunmen kidnap Iraqi coach for blind, 2 November 2006, http://www.thestate.com/mld/ thestate/news/world/15902505.htm. 1013 Kirsten Sparre, Disabled athletes also targets for kidnappers in Iraq, Play The Game, 8 November 2006, http://www.playthegame.org/News/Up%20To%20Date/Disabled_athletes_also_targets_for_kidnappers_in_Ira q.aspx. 1014 AP, Iraqi international soccer referee kidnapped in Baghdad, 11 October 2006, http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php?refid=WH-S-16-10-2006&article=11002. 1015 Ibidem, Scattered violence leaves 25 dead in Iraq, 7 October 2006, http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061007/iraq_violence_061007/20061007?hub=Newsletter. 1016 Ibidem, Iraqi Olympic Soccer Player Kidnapped, 4 September 2006, http://www.foxnews.com/ story/0,2933,212041,00.html. 195
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A. Current Situat
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and gatherings, Shi’ite religious
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Iraqi Asylum-Seekers From Central a
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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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to Osama Bin Laden, the Shi’ites
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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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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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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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een killed in Iraq and another 491
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Acts committed against employees or
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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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inside the media compound, refrain
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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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violence on a daily basis. Ordinary
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a) Before the Fall of the Former Re
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