Baghdad, Jun 2, (VOI) – 81,397 detainees and prisoners have been released under the General Amnesty Law endorsed by the Iraqi government released since its implementation in February 2008, the official spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council said on Monday.“81,397 detainees and inmates from different parts of Iraq have been freed by the Amnesty law until Sunday June 1," Abdul-Sattar al-Berqdar, spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).
The spokesman noted “18,951 inmates were set free, 37,912 detainees were release on bail while the number of wanted persons, though included in the law, reached 24,534 detainees.”
“The formed committees examining the files of detainees included in the amnesty law kept extended their operations to include more detainees,” he added.
In February 2008, the Iraqi Parliament enacted the General Amnesty bill that allows the release of Iraqi detainees, according to certain terms and conditions, exclusively from Iraqi detention centers.
The Iraqi Presidential Council ratified the Law on March 27, 2008, and it was implemented on the same month.
Major General Douglas Stone, U.S. official responsible for the detention centers, had said that more than 23,000 Iraqis are detained in U.S. detention centers in Iraq, including 240 Arab citizens and 500 teenagers years less than 17 year.