During Friday Prayers in the city of al-Khalil, where Prophet Abraham is buried, and on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Dr. Sheikh Taysir al-Tamimi, Chief Justice of Palestine, Chairman of the High Council and speaker at the sacred Abraham shrine, called on the Iraqi government to implement international laws and conventions regarding the protection of the human rights of Iranian refugees in Ashraf City as well as Palestinian refugees in the Baladyat region near Baghdad. He also called on Baghdad to comply with divine laws regarding the imperative of providing respectable lives for residents of Ashraf and Palestinian refugees and to also protect them against outlawed groups which threaten Iraq’s stability and security.
The statement released by the Public and Media Relations Bureau of Palestine’s Office of the Chief Justice says that Sheikh Taysir al-Tamimi considers the Iraqi government fully responsible for any harm that may be done to the lives, assets and properties of these refugees, and stated that Iraq would not see stability and security unless it protects all citizens and sectors of the Iraqi society, and especially refugees who are Iraq’s guests and have been deprived to live in their own countries for reasons beyond their control. In this regard, he condemned some of the threatening statements made against the refugees.
Public and Media Relations Bureau
Office of the Chief Justice / High Council of the Judiciary
Bethlehem – Palestine
December 26, 2008
