Following the arrest of an Iraqi Hashad al-Shabi militia commander in Anbar province, the head of the al-Fatah coalition called any attempt to break al-Hashd al-Shabi’s authority tantamount to weakening the country’s authority.
The leader of the Al-Fatah coalition in Iraq, Hadi al-Amiri, issued a statement Thursday evening regarding the arrest of Qasim Mosleh, commander of the Iraqi Hashad al-Shabi organization in Anbar province.
According to the Al-Sumaria website, the head of the Al-Fatah Coalition said in the statement: “It wants to undermine the country’s authority.”
Hadi al-Amiri continued: “Anyone who arrests by circumvention and away from legal, principled and personal ijtihad procedures, wants to bypass the judiciary and does not see the separation between the powers that the constitution emphasizes. “Justice and security apparatus cannot be summed up in one person.”
Al-Amiri added: “The wrongful arrests were made without a warrant and there are methods of torture that are absolutely unacceptable, and this is the first step to return to dictatorship. “We hope that Iraq and serving the Iraqi people will be the starting point and the basis of our unity.”
Since Wednesday, the case of the arrest of Qassim Mosleh, a prominent Hashad al-Shaabi commander in Iraq, has been met with strong protests from the public, resistance groups, and political activists.
Qasim Mosleh, one of the top commanders of the Iraqi People’s Mobilization, as opposed to a plan to transfer ISIS elements from Syria into Iraq, but was abducted under pressure from the US embassy; A provocative action that provoked strong protests from the people, resistance groups and some political activists.
The clear record of the reformist commander in the jihad against ISIS and the liberation of the occupied territories shows that he turned the Syrian-Iraqi border into a bone in the Americans’ throat and prevented their encroachment on Iraq’s territorial integrity.
