Procedures described deprivation of liberty made during the investigation stage as are restrictions on the freedom of the accused temporarily Vtmha, as required depending on the circumstances of the investigation and its implications. As the individual committing the crime have shaken its legal status, and gave the state a chance to take him as many procedures, including procedures of deprivation of liberty, as a means to an end is to ensure direct investigation procedures perfectly, appears from here the importance and seriousness of those actions which is usually an arrest and make an arrest, however the legislature has faced procedural actions to be subjected to a set of restrictions and limitations that were assessed as guarantees for the benefit of the accused. In order to achieve a balance between the public interest represented the interests of society and the private interest represented the interests of the accused.

With regard to the law of the Supreme Criminal Court came this law to meet the need of Iraqi society in creating a legal system to deal with the subject of his importance and specificity of historical, political, social, since the enactment of the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal not to prosecute certain individuals but to try a historical era important in the modern era , it is our duty to find the best way and a mechanism to complete this task a manner that achieves ambitious.