Judge Naser Seraj, The Vice President of the Judiciary for International Affairs and the Secretary General of the High Council for Human Rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the judicial delegation accompanying him on their visit to Baghdad met separately with Judge Faiq Zidan, the President of the Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq, Najm Abdullah Ahmed, the Attorney General, and Khaled Shawani, the Minister of Justice of Iraq, and Judge Laith Jabr Hamza, the President of the Judicial Supervision Organization and member of the Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq, and discussed important legal and judicial issues.
The Vice President of the Judiciary for International Affairs and the Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq, while emphasizing the development and strengthening of legal and judicial cooperation, discussed the follow-up to the memorandum of understanding signed between the two countries, serious confrontation with terrorism, the follow-up to the assassination case of martyr Soleimani and his companions, and the cases of the terrorist groups of the MKO, ISIS, Komala, Pak, Khabas, PJAK, and Democrats.
Referring to the huge public participation in the Arbaeen procession of Imam Hussein (PBUH), Seraj called for easing the legal problems of pilgrims when traveling to Iraq and emphasized maximum judicial support to resolve the pilgrims' problems.
In his meeting with the Iraqi Attorney General, Seraj discussed a number of joint cases and judicial cooperation between the two countries, and emphasized the acceleration of the transfer of convicted persons and the extradition of criminals, especially members of terrorist groups, and the prosecution of defendants in the case of the Nifaq group and the 1991 Sha'baniyah Intifada.
The Iraqi Attorney General also referred to the good judicial cooperation between the two countries and said: Iran and Iraq are friends and brothers, and the cooperation between the two countries has a long history and this cooperation will continue.
The Vice President of the Judiciary for International Affairs, continuing his visit to Iraq, met with the Minister of Justice of this country, while appreciating the transfer of Iranian convicts to our country, referring to the cooperation between the two countries in the field of transfer of convicts and criminals, emphasized the need to make the best and most effective use of the capacity of the existing agreement between the two countries in the field of transfer of convicts, and, considering the situation of some Iranian prisoners, called for providing appropriate facilities to the prisoners and accelerating and expanding their transfer to Iran.
During the meeting, the Iraqi Minister of Justice also affirmed the constructive and long-standing cooperation between the two countries and promised assistance and cooperation in the field of transferring convicts and other bilateral legal and judicial cooperation.
