Shafaq News..Top Iraqi court upholds Nineveh land decision

Shafaq News- Nineveh

Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court on
Monday rejected legal challenges to a Nineveh Provincial Council decision
lifting construction restrictions in Qaza Fakhra and Jliyokhan, two areas in
the Nineveh Plains east of Mosul, political adviser to the council Humam
Al-Salim told Shafaq News.

Al-Salim said the ruling upheld the council’s
measure, which he described as ending years of restrictions that had affected
thousands of families and property owners.

The court had previously postponed
the case until Sept. 7 at the request of lawmakers Waad El-Kadu and Duraid
Jameel, who appeared as plaintiffs and sought additional time to respond to the
defense presented on behalf of the Provincial Council chairman and Nineveh
governor.

The dispute followed a legal
challenge brought by Qusay Abbas, a lawmaker representing the Shabak community,
an ethnic and religious minority concentrated in the Nineveh Plains. The suit
accused the council of seeking to engineer demographic change around Mosul,
including in Qaza Fakhra and Jliyokhan, after it voted in June to authorize the
Mosul municipality to subdivide and distribute residential plots and issue
building permits in expansion zones.

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