Zakia Hakki, who lived from November 18, 1939, to August 22, 2021, was an Iraqi Feyli Kurdish lawyer born in Baghdad. She and Sabiha al-Shaykh Da'ud became Iraq's first female judges, appointed in the years 1956 to 1959. After her husband was killed by operatives of Saddam Hussein's government, she fled Iraq in 1996, reportedly bribing officials with a valuable carpet to do so, and was granted political asylum in the United States, where she practiced law in Northern Virginia and served as vice president of the Iraqi-American Council. She returned to Iraq in 2003, was elected to the interim parliament, and advised the Coalition Provisional Authority's interim Ministry of Justice on legal reforms, though neither she nor any other woman was able to take part in drafting the new Iraqi constitution; she later won election to the Iraqi Council of Representatives and served on its Constitutional Review Committee. She died in Harrisonburg, Virginia, at the age of 81.
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What did Zakia Hakki do after she returned to Iraq in 2003?
She was elected to the National Assembly and advised on drafting the constitution.
Zakia Hakki returned to Iraq in 2003 after leaving the country in 1996 because of the pressure she faced. She was elected to the National Assembly of Iraq and served as an adviser in the drafting of the constitution. She was already known as the first woman appointed a judge in Iraq, in 1959.
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She and Sabiha al-Shaykh Da'ud became the first female judges in Iraq respectively in 1956-1959.
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Zakia Ismael Hakki (Arabic: زكية إسماعيل حقي; 18 November 1939 - 22 August 2021) was an Iraqi Feyli Kurdish lawyer.
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In 2004, Hakki was an outspoken opponent against the US-backed Iraqi Governing Council's decision to cancel family laws and place jurisdiction under sharia, saying, "This new law will send Iraqi families back to the Middle Ages." When Shiite Islamic parties pushed for sharia to be enshrined in the interim constitution, Hakki used her Department of Defense clearance to bring activists into the Green Zone and staged sit-ins in US proconsul Paul Bremer's office until he agreed to veto sharia.
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was an Iraqi Feyli Kurdish lawyer
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Wikidata Q42331490, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1939
Wikidata Q42331490, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1939-11-18
Wikidata Q42331490, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 2021
Wikidata Q42331490, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 2021-08-23
Wikidata Q42331490, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Baghdad
Wikidata Q42331490, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): Harrisonburg
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