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Judge Rizgar: Iraqi law does not permit
executions on public holidays
5.1.2007
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Erbil, Kurdistan
Region (Iraq), January 5, -- Judge Rizgar Mohammed
Amin, member of Kurdistan Appeals Court and the
former chief judge in the Dujail case, on Thursday
said the Iraqi law does not permit death sentences
to be carried out on public holidays and religious
occasions.
"I’m not commenting on the execution of former Iraqi
president Saddam Hussein. I’m merely referring to
the law. There is a straight article in the second
chapter of the Iraqi penal code number 23 issued in
1971 which handles the issue of carrying out the
death sentence,” Rizgar said.
The law “states that it is not permissible to carry
out and execution during public holidays and the
religious occasions of the convict’s faith. This is
an article that should not be violated,” he said.
Several Arab, Moslem and western countries have
expressed resentment at the timing of Saddam’s
execution at the dawn of the first day of the Moslem
Eid al-Adha (Bairam).
The chief judge Amin, a Kurd from Sulaimaniyah city
who resigned from handling the Saddam Hussein Dujail
trial in January 2006
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Rizgar Amin, Former Chief judge in the trial of
Saddam Hussein
Photo : AFP |
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The deposed president was executed on Saturday for
crimes against humanity in the village of al-Dujail,
where nearly 148 people were slain in 1982. Saddam’s
body was buried in his hometown of Ouja, near Tikrit
in
northern Iraq.
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