Iraq passes three controversial bills
Cosmin Pîrv
BAGHDAD Iraq ’s parliament has passed three divisive laws, including amendments to the country's personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalize child marriage. One of the bills seeks the return of properties to their original Turkmen and Kurdish owners. The land was taken from them and given to Arab settlers by the Baathist Revolutionary Command Council decades ago. The general amnesty bill seeks to amend the 2016 law’s definition of affiliation with terrorist organizations, a
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