Pardon Law Releases 20,000 Detainees

Subject: Pardon Law Releases 20,000 Detainees Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:26 pm

The general pardon law introduced by the Iraqi government as part of national reconciliation efforts will include nearly 20,000 detainees in Iraqi custody, an official spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council said on Saturday. "The Iraqi government's general amnesty law will include 20,000 detainees in the prisons and detention centers of the Iraqi ministries of interior, justice and social affairs," Judge Abdul Sattar Birqordar said in statements to Aswat al-Iraq, Voices of Iraq, (VOI). The law does not include those convicted by the Supreme Criminal Court or those charged with terrorism, kidnap, murder, rape, incest, or the smuggling of antiquities, Birqordar indicated. The parliament returned the law to the government to make slight changes to it before a final vote is taken, the spokesman added. On Thursday, an Iraqi member of parliament and deputy head of its human rights committee described the draft general pardon law as "unfair," saying it includes a narrow category of detainees. "The law is full of exceptions and serves a narrow category of detainees," MP Harith al-Obeidi from the Sunni Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF) told VOI. -Voice of Iraq

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Subject: Re: Pardon Law Releases 20,000 Detainees Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:16 pm

What's the bet this is only due to them running out of money?

Subject: Re: Pardon Law Releases 20,000 Detainees Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:44 pm

Don't think it's money, but strategic maneuvering, hearts and minds plus an election coming up, so...

Pardon Law Releases 20,000 Detainees

Pardon Law Releases 20,000 Detainees

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