FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 30 August 2019

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Yazidi Leaders Legalize Election and Coronation of Chief Prince
Yazidi People Celebrate Sovereign Democratic Election of
Ruling Prince (Emir) Naif bin Dawud bin Sulaiman

Summary:
Over 500 Yazidi tribal leaders, representing the Yazidi People
worldwide, completed a democratic election monitored by an international Court,
with an official Coronation under Yazidi law and international law, reasserting their
indigenous sovereignty, reestablishing the Ezidkhan Principality (Emirate), and electing
Chief Prince Naif bin Dawud bin Sulaiman as Ruling Prince (Emir) of the restored Yazidi
nation state.

Press Release:
Yazidi tribal
leaders, with an overwhelming representative
electorate, reclaimed their ethnic identity and independence from the Kurds,
reasserting their indigenous sovereignty by legalizing a democratic election of Chief
Prince Naif bin Dawud bin Sulaiman, completing a traditional Coronation Ceremony,
and ratifying an official Coronation Letters Patent legal instrument.

The movement and democratic election began with a Diplomatic Address speech to
Yazidi leaders by Prince Judge Matthew in March 2019, as Chief Inspector General of
the supporting inter-governmental organization (IGO) Ignita Veritas United (IVU), and
as King’s Counsel for the supporting Royal Alliance of Independent States (RAIS).

The official Coronation Ceremony, a traditional religious ceremony under ancient
Yazidi law, was conducted by Yazidi Tribal Leaders, gathered at the top of Mount
Sinjar, in the Chibl-Qassim Temple on 04 August 2019. A video of the Coronation was
broadcast by both Yazidi television channels “Ezidi 24” and “Ezidkhan TV” in Iraq.

The Coronation event was held one day after the five-year Commemoration
anniversary of the 2014 genocide of Yazidis by the “Daesh” Islamic State, making this
event a demonstration of the courage and resilience of the Yazidi People.

Election monitoring was conducted by the inter-governmental Sovereign Court of
International Justice (SCIJ). Signatures on a legal Coronation Letters Patent were
collected during a period of four months since April, officially ratified on 19 August
2019, and certified by the Chief Justice of the SCIJ High Court on 29 August 2019.

The Judiciary Certification document specified that the Yazidi signatories were “507
representative Yazidi leaders, including: 40 Princes of the ruling Royal House of
Dawud Bak of the Qatani Sheikhs, 30 Religious leaders, 140 Tribal leaders, 59 Political
& Government leaders, and 238 Army and Police officers”, all “proportionally
representative of the general population of the Yazidi People worldwide.”

The announcement of this democratic election and Coronation comes in response to a
full month of Yazidi outrage and mass protests against the illegal attempt of the
Barzani faction of the Kurdistan government to unilaterally appoint and declare a
claimed “Emir” (Chief Prince) of the independent Yazidis.

The Judiciary Certification letter declared: “The Court takes Judicial notice of the…
ancient Yazidi ‘Rule of Succession’ and ‘Rule of Coronation’ for the Ezidkhan throne,
which conclusively proves that Ruling Prince (Emir) Naif is the only qualified and
rightful successor under Yazidi law in customary international law.”

“Therefore, the Court officially recognizes Sovereign Chief Prince Naif bin Dawud bin
Sulaiman as the only lawfully and democratically elected Head of State, as Ruling
Prince (Emir) of the legalized and reestablished Ezidkhan Principality (Emirate) as the
indigenous nation state of the Yazidi People worldwide, as a sovereign subject of
international law in diplomatic relations.”

The Court also documented illegal election interference by the Barzani leadership of
Kurdistan:

“Two Advisors on behalf of the Kurdistan ‘Prime Minister’ publicly commanded all
Yazidis to recognize the disqualified [candidate] unilaterally appointed by the Barzani
faction… [as] unlawful political pressure on Yazidi Tribal Leaders, while Barzani
Kurdistan armed forces control ‘security’ and access to Yazidi ancestral lands, thus
constituting a clearly implied threat of serious bodily harm by military force.”

“Therefore… this democratic election was successfully completed courageously in
defiance of illegal pressure and threats by the Barzani leading faction of the Kurdistan
government.”

The Sovereign Court of International Justice (SCIJ) is an official Court of Law and
international Court of Justice of the independent Judiciary profession, with universal
jurisdiction, as a High Court at Common Law for human rights and international law
cases. SCIJ is recognized as an “inter-governmental organization” (IGO) by United
Nations Registration No. 666976. It exercises inherent statutory powers and supra-
governmental authorities of the Judiciary under the UN framework of conventional
law, which is binding upon all countries regardless of recognition (UN Independence of
Judiciary, Preamble: 1, 10, Articles 3, 4, 7; UN Law of Treaties, Article 38).

Related Resources:

Video of Diplomatic Address Speech (English & Arabic Subtitles)

Video of Official Coronation Ceremony (Arabic & English Subtitles)

Coronation of Sovereign Chief Prince (English legal document)

Coronation of Sovereign Chief Prince (Arabic legal document)

Yazidis Unifying in New Leadership Towards Sovereignty

Yazidi Mass Protests Reject Kurdish Appointed “Emir” Tahsin

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