DOHA, April 2, 2012 (AFP) – April 2, 2012- Iraq’s fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on Monday rejected Baghdad’s demand for Qatar to hand him over, saying he enjoys constitutional immunity and has not been convicted.
’There has not been a judicial decision against me from any court, and the demand does not respect Article 93 of the constitution, which provides me with immunity,’ he told AFP in the Qatari capital.
Earlier, Baghdad had demanded Doha hand over Hashemi, who is accused of running a death squad, and who arrived in the Gulf state on Sunday from Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan, where he fled in December.