Justice: 756 inmates were released General Amnesty Law

Anmar Journal February 26, 2017

BAGHDAD - The Journal News

Revealed that the Ministry of Justice, Sunday, preparing covered by the general amnesty law absolute released during the years 2016-2017, which amounted to a final total of 756 inmates.

According to the Ministry in a statement, "The number of those released from the ministry's prisons through November of last year, a month in 2016 and covered by the general amnesty law amounted to 174 inmates, while the absolute number of them in the month of December of the same year amounted to 194 inmates, where the final total stood at last year, 368 inmates. "

He added that "those released in the month of January of the year 2017 amounted to 347 inmates, while the absolute number was released during the month of February of this year, 41 inmates."

The statement pointed out that "the final total for the number freed since the publication of the amnesty law in the Official Gazette on 26 September amounted to 756 inmates."

The House of Representatives passed the approval of the draft general amnesty law the controversial 25 of last August and after a dispute for years upon, especially the paragraph relating to the accused terrorist, where the law pointed to the formation of a judicial committee would be responsible for considering the extent of the possibility of re-trial of the accused to Article 4 / terrorism whether or not the request is not the accused himself.

And endorsed President Fuad Masum, in the first of last September on the law, but the Council of Ministers gave the sixth of the same month in which an amendment to the House of Representatives with the exception of terrorism and kidnappings in the general amnesty of crimes, and announced that the Parliamentary Legal Committee of Parliament received Tadel.anthy 3

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