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Baghdad, Iraq Press, September 14, 2003 ? A new judicial system is slowly taking root with judges exercising their role without interference, Minister of Justice Hashem Abdulrahman al-Shibli said.
"The ministry will make the judiciary independent of the executive branch of the government and will not let any party meddle in its affairs," Shibli, who was given the justice portfolio when the first post-Saddam cabinet was announced on September 1, said.
"We seek justice for the whole Iraqi people regardless of religious, sectarian or ethnic differences," he added.
The ministry now has new judges in almost all major towns. Judges with connection to the ousted regime of Saddam Hussein are not allowed to rule.