Judge Ruzgar Amin resigns from Kurdistan Parliament

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: Member of the Kurdistan Bloc in north Iraq Kurdistan Region’s Parliament, Judge Ruzgar Mohammed Amin, has presented his resignation from the Parliament, without defining its reasons, the Chairperson of Kurdistan Parliament, Suzan Shehab, said on Tuesday. “Judge Ruzgar Mohammed Amin, a member of the Kurdistan Bloc in our Parliament, had presented his official resignation yesterday (Monday). I  have not yet brought it to the Parliament’s Speaker,” Sehab told IraqiNews.com. Judge Ruzgar had been the first judge in the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Court that tried Iraq‘s former President, Saddam Hussein, and some of his leading members. He withdrew from the trial after seven sessions, to be replaced by Judge Raouf Rashid Abdul-Rahman, who sentenced Saddam Hussein to execution on on Nov. 5, 2005. Saddam Hussein was executed on Jan. 30th of the same year, after his conviction of having been behind the killing of 142 persons from east Iraq‘s al-Dujail town in the 1980s. Judge Ruzgar Mohammed Amin, born in 1958, was appointed as judge in the 1970s and he he resides in northern Iraq‘s Kurdistan Sulaimaniya Province, where he was born. SKH/SR 1