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Shards of war petition3/13/2023 ![]() ![]() The Petition of 2000 was a document drafted near the end of the Clone Wars by a group of senators and other political officials (the " Delegation of 2000") addressed to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. Fitton's case and the UK's opposition to the death penalty in all circumstances as a matter of principle," a letter sent by Foreign Office minister Amanda Milling to Hobhouse last week." This is a list of traitors!" ― Palpatine discrediting the Petition of 2000's signers "We understand the urgency of the case, and have already raised our concerns with the Iraqi authorities regarding the possible imposition of the death penalty in Mr. In response, FCDO said it is already providing consular support to the family and has been in contact with Iraqi authorities. "I cannot understand why the Foreign Office is not intervening when Jim's life lays in the balance." "We are pressing the Foreign Office to intervene but sadly they are continuing to refuse,” Hobhouse said. Wera Hobhouse, Liberal Democrat MP for Bath, raised Jim’s case with ministers in the House of Commons. Jim’s family is hoping to get immediate assistance before the hearing for the sentencing court starts on May 8. ![]() Leila said their lawyer had drafted the proposal, which “cites the clear lack of criminality, that Jim is a victim of poor guidance and circumstance, and also cites the huge investment that the UK has made in the Iraqi governmental and judicial framework through FCDO funding in the past few years.” She added that she and her family were forced to create a petition after failing to get help from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).Īccording to Leila, they are still hopeful that the FCDO will help them with its “legal and constitutional powers” to secure a meeting with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and other judiciary officials, so they can present a proposal seeking to “have the case closed before trial.” Leila, who has not seen her father for over two years now due to COVID-19 restrictions, revealed in a recent petition update that her father had no legal representation when the investigation phase of the case was being heard. “Now the tour leader, another British citizen, has passed away from a stroke in custody in Baghdad, and our father awaits his fate.” “Tour members were told that this would not be an issue, as the broken shards had no economic or historical value,” she wrote. She added that the tour leaders also took shards from the site as souvenirs. “These fragments were in the open, unguarded and with no signage warning against removal." “Whilst on the tour, our father visited historical sites around Iraq, where his tour group found fragments of stones and shards of broken pottery in piles on the ground,” Leila narrated in the petition. Under Iraqi law, "whoever exported or intended to export, deliberately, an antiquity, from Iraq, shall be punishable with execution." The items, however, were eventually judged to be artifacts. He reportedly took some stones and shards of broken pottery as souvenirs while visiting the archaeological site Eridu as part of a geology and archeology tour. The scientist, who shares a home in Malaysia with his wife, Sarijah, worked for oil and gas companies. ![]() On April 28, Jim’s daughter Leila launched a petition via asking the British government to take action against the death sentence. Jim Fitton, 66, has been accused of trying to smuggle historic artifacts out of the Middle Eastern country and has been detained there for five weeks. government to help save a retired British geologist currently facing the death penalty in Iraq. Over 100,000 petitioners are urging the U.K. ![]()
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