Faiq Al Sheikh Ali (Arabic: فائق الشيخ علي, romanized: Fāʾiq aš-Šayḫ ʿAlī; born 2 July 1963) is an Iraqi lawyer and politician who served as a Member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq From 2014 and is the Secretary-General of the People's Party for Reform.
He was an Independent politician in exile, also working as a journalist since 1993 writing hundreds of articles against Saddam Hussein mainly in the Al-Hayat Newspaper and denouncing the Iraqi government's record of human rights violations.
[7] They urged Saddam to immediately end his government's systematic suppression of dissenting voices and to fully respect international standards of freedom of expression.
In mid-January 2002, a convoy of black Mercedes cars and Land Rovers suddenly drew up outside his father's home in Najaf at 7 am.
[8] This happened after Sheikh Ali took part in an angry debate on Al-Jazeera channel on the Conflicting Views programme in December 2001 calling Saddam Hussein a terrorist and a butcher.
Patrick Cockburn, on Saturday 23 March 2002 wrote an article about it in The Independent under Saddam parades families of exiled critics on TV.
The constitution states in Article 39(a) that the freedom to form & join associations and political parties is guaranteed and shall be regulated by law.
[17] A day before the vote, Sheikh Ali wrote on his Facebook page: 'Today we ended the most complex law in the history of Iraq and most contrary and controversy between the political blocs and parties over many years.
[22][23][24] Instead, he wants an independent high electoral commission made up of judges, assigned by the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council.
[28] Sheikh Ali came out very strongly against this article in a press conference, mentioning that it was included in the last minute by some Islamist MP's against the will of most of the Judiciary Committee.
Faiq Al Sheikh Ali is also a member of the Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA),[35] since 2014 and is working to get the Iraqi government to sign the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
[37][38] He is a defender of Iraqi minorities including Christians and Yazidis and calls for immediate action by the government to secure those who were victims of genocide by ISIS.
The alliance aims to establish a civil state based on justice and equal rights & duties for all citizens adopting liberal principles characterized by free & fair elections, separation of powers and the rule of law, ensuring equal protection of human rights, and civil & political freedoms for all.