SJC: General amnesty does not include perpetrators of kidnapping and enslavement of Yazidi women and other components

Baghdad-INA
The head of the National Center for International Judicial Cooperation, Ali Hussein Jaffat, confirmed today, Wednesday, that the general amnesty law does not include perpetrators of the crimes of kidnapping and enslaving Yazidis and other components.
 
A statement by the Supreme Judicial Council, received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), stated that "the head of the National Center for International Judicial Cooperation, Judge Ali Hussein Jaffat, organized a meeting with the Director General of the General Directorate of Survivors' Affairs at the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Sarab Elias Barakat, in the building of the National Center for International Judicial Cooperation."
 
The head of the center stated during the meeting that "the perpetrators of the crimes of kidnapping and enslaving Yazidis were not included in the General Amnesty Law No. (27) of 2016, especially the latest amendment that was approved by the Council of Representatives on 1/21/2025, especially since Article (9/First) of the Yazidi Survivors Law No. (8) of 2021 stipulates (Perpetrators of the crime of kidnapping and enslaving Yazidis are not included in any general or special amnesty)."
 
For her part, the Director General of the General Directorate of Survivors' Affairs at the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Sarab Elias Barakat, expressed her "gratitude for providing assistance, cooperation and overcoming difficulties in order to document the horrific crimes against Yazidi women."
 
It added that "in a subsequent meeting with a number of civil society organizations interested in supporting Yazidi sects and other components, the issue of survivors who were subjected to the crimes of captivity and rape by ISIS terrorist gangs in 2014 was discussed. The archiving of evidence of survivors by the National Center in accordance with international standards was discussed, as well as Documenting Survivors’ Testimonies."
 
The statement pointed out that "the subsequent meeting, which was held in the National Center building, was attended by Yazda Organization, represented by Natia Navrozov and Zoe Paris, Hammurabi Organization, represented by William Warda, and the Coalition for Fair Reparations, represented by Hassan Jamil Khalid."