Iraqi judiciary issues arrest warrants for senior officials
Riyadh – Mubasher: The Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council issued orders on Thursday to arrest large heads accused of corruption.
The Supreme Council of the Judiciary, in a statement, was voted to lift the immunity of deputies accused of corruption cases, according to the Iraqi news agency “conscious”.
The Supreme Judicial Council added that legal proceedings have been taken against the defendants.
In its statement, the council stressed the right of peaceful demonstration and the need to respond to demands, while establishing investigative bodies in the provinces where protests broke out to investigate the events that accompanied them, and in a record time a central anti-corruption court dealing with what he called “major cases”.
The official statistics of the Supreme Judicial Council, today, on the numbers of those released from the events of the demonstrations.
The statistics confirmed, according to data from the courts of appeal, that the number of released demonstrators in all courts of the country amounted to 1.65 thousand who did not commit the crime of assaulting public or private funds.