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| Iraq |
| 113 detainees released in Mosul |
| 2008-05-01 |
| Ninewa, Apr 30, (VOI) – 113 detainees were released on Wednesday morning from Ninewa police prisons, according to the general amnesty law, said the official spokesperson of Ninewa Operations command. "Ninewa operations command released on Wednesday 113 detainees from the province's police prisons, according to the General Amnesty Law," Brigadier Khlaid Abdul-Sattar told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI). On Tuesday, the official spokesperson for the Supreme Judicial Council said that 1613 detainees were released in the past 24 hours according to the General Amnesty Law, raising the total number of detainees released since the implementation of the law in February 2008 to more than 50,000. "The total number of detainees freed according to the law reached 50535 distributed throughout various places of Iraq," Judge Abdul-Sattar al-Berqdar told VOI. "The number until Monday was 48922 detainees," al-Berqdar said. In February 2008, the Iraqi Parliament enacted the General Amnesty Law 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 less than 18 years old. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 Good. Sort out the relatively innocent from the truly bad, then hang the bad. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-05-01 18:28 |