(KUNA) -- US forces pardoned over 204 Iraqi detainees last week, according to a statement released by Iraqi Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi on Sunday.The release of the prisoners came in line with a scheduled process to pardon inmates, launched during the fasting month of Ramadan laet year, the statement added, Number of the freed prisoners in the recent operation, since start of the new year, increased to 552, it said, noting that the figure, since Ramadan, reached 3,694. About 24,000 Iraqi are currently detained in two Multi-National Forces' prisons in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and the southern city of Basra.