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Kurdistan parliament discusses amnesty: MP
28.10.2006
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Sulaimaniyah,
Kurdistan Region (Iraq), October 28, -- Iraq’s
Kurdistan parliament started discussing a draft
amnesty law for prisoners in the Kurdistan region, a
Kurdistan parliament member said on Saturday.
“The Kurdistan parliament is discussing a draft
amnesty law for the inmates of prisons in the
Kurdistan region,” the Kurdistan parliament member,
Mr. Areez Abdulla, said.
The Kurdistan parliament should refer the draft if
passed into law to the President of Iraq’s Kurdistan
region for ratification, he said.
Mr. Abdulla did not say whether or not the amnesty
will apply to all prisoners in the region.
The presidency office of Iraq’s Kurdistan region
issued an amnesty decree only for 120 prisoners in
Erbil province last week on the occasion of "Eid al-Fitr",
at the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Meanwhile, the Kurdistan parliament will host on
Monday the Kurdistan region’s ministers of interior,
justice, and social welfare to discuss the
parliament’s committees’ reports on prisoners in the
Kurdistan region.
Parliamentarian Abdulla said Monday’s meeting “ will
discuss the reports submitted by the parliament’s
legal, human rights and health committees after they
visited the three prisons in the region over the
last two months.”
The three prisons in Kurdistan region have 1342
inmates, including 113 minors and 29 women.
Some prisoners stayed in prison for lengthy periods
without a trial and this is, as Mr. Abdulla said, “
a violation of law and of human rights.”
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