Professor Tarek Ali Saleh

Legal Culture
Professor Tarek Ali Saleh

A distinguished legal and human rights activist and chairman of the Iraqi Rights Society in Britain.

Born in Baghdad in 1946, he entered the Police College in 1964. After graduating, he studied at the Law Faculty of Mustansiriya University in Baghdad and received a Bachelor's degree in law from 1971. He held human rights positions in the General Police Directorate including a legal adviser, And graduated from it as a judge. He was sent to a study mission in the United Kingdom in 1986 and obtained a doctorate in criminal law. He founded the Association of Iraqi Jurists in the UK where he was a distinguished activist in the field of legal authorship, lectures, seminars and scientific conferences. He moved to the vicinity of his Lord in September 2017 following a severe illness.

The latter has many books and researches related to the legal aspect, the field of rights and freedoms and the independence of the judiciary:

- his latest book on the death penalty, as he was strongly demanding the abolition of the death penalty.

- The reality of human rights in Iraq and the violations committed by the occupation forces.

- Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court and national interests

- Politics and ethics.

- The fairness of sentences in the death penalty

- State crimes of terrorism.

- State of terrorism through the law of terrorism

- Independence of the Iraqi judiciary between theory and practice

The crisis of the leftist democratic trend

- Law and Justice

- The legal system in Iraq between the past and present

- Political power between past and present

- International peace in the light of American exclusivity

American Democracy in Iraq

- Ruling on the political community in Iraq

- The relationship between morality and crime

- The tendency to retaliate in the execution of Saddam

- Requirements of the state of law

- Law of terrorism of the Iraqi people No. 13 of 2005

- About the death penalty.

He also published articles and articles in the press, as well as through the Society's website. The Society also issued dozens of statements to determine the position of the US occupation forces in Iraq, as well as violations of human rights by government authorities after 2005.