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Justice to release 563 prisoners during the month
On: Tue 03/01/2012 8:30
□ Baghdad / term follow up
the Justice Department announced yesterday the release of 563 prisoners during the month of December last, from all prisons, confirmed in 1374 to refer prisoners to the deportation and the courts during the same month. He said the ministry media spokesman Haidar al-Sa'di said in an interview told Alsumaria News that "the number released from the prisons of the Ministry of Justice during the month of December last reached 563 prisoners."
Saadi said that "The ministry forwarded the 1374 prisoners during the same month." The Ministry of Justice announced that, on the twentieth of December last release of 192 detainees from three prisons, owing to lack of evidence against them, and confirmed that the courts within the prison sequence as soon as the required files for those detained , for the release of innocent people, and to keep the wanted men.
The Supreme Judicial Council announced in Iraq, (13 December 2011), for release on the 3556 position in November of last year, as he emphasized resolving the issues of 9850 detainees during the same month, as announced Council in the November 30 release of the last 4891 suspended during the month of October of last year. And Amnesty International revealed in a report issued on 12 September last year, for the existence of at least 30 thousand detainees in Iraqi prisons has not made the right judgments, unexpected exposure to torture and ill-treatment, in addition to the deaths of a number of them during their detention as a result of torture or cruel bad by the investigators, or prison guards who refuse to reveal the names of the detainees have.
As Amnesty International declared in a report issued in January of 2011, that Iraq ran secret prisons, subjected the prisoners to torture routinely to extract confessions used to convict, indicating that the security forces use torture and other beaten and ill-treatment to extract confessions from detainees who are being held in isolation from the outside world, especially in detention facilities, while refuted the Ministry of Justice report, confirmed that the presence of the security services in prisons designed to provide protection. On the other hand, official statistics showed that the number of those killed in the violence plummeted in last December to the lowest level compared with the rest of the months in 2011, which killed a total of 2645 people as a result of the violence.
Official figures show that the number of deaths in December was 155 people, including 90 civilians, compared with the month of November, which killed a total of 187, including 112 civilians. showed statistics from the defense and interior ministries that 36 soldiers, police and 29 military were killed in December, compared to 42 policemen and 33 soldiers in November. In the census for the number of wounded appeared that 99 civilians and 92 policemen and 88 soldiers were injured in accidents last month. The worst attacks on December 22 when a series of bombings in Baghdad, killing 72 people. On the security level army announced yesterday the arrest of eight wanted for "terrorism" and found a quantity of explosives, rockets and improvised explosive devices by securing the visit forties south of Baghdad.
The commander of the band seventeenth responsible for areas south of Baghdad, Maj. Gen. Nasser Al-Ghannam said in an interview told Alsumaria News " the strength of his band carried out yesterday morning, pre-emptive raid in a number of areas south of the capital to secure the processions visit the death of Imam Hussein, "noting that they" arrested eight wanted men in accordance with Article IV of the Anti-Terrorism Act. " He said Ghannam that "has been found during the operation, eight advanced missile two meters long with seized 15 improvised explosive devices, nine bombs varied, as well as 50 kilograms of explosive material." Said Ghannam that "detainees were transferred to a security center for interrogation, while the confiscated rocket and explosives. "
as said a police source in Diyala province yesterday, that the five wanted men, mostly on charges of "terrorism" were arrested in different parts of the province.
The source said in an interview told Alsumaria News that "the police force carried out, yesterday afternoon, raid and search operations in the areas of Baquba and Muqdadiya district and arrested five wanted Palestinians, most of them in accordance with Article IV of the Anti-Terrorism Act. "The source, who requested anonymity, that" the operation was based on accurate intelligence, "adding that" were taken prisoners to a police station for interrogation. "
and Diyala, yesterday, arrested three people suspected of involvement killing one civilian and wounding a second roadside bomb south of Baquba, while a civilian was killed an armed attack north of Baquba and arrested the port, the son of his brother, also arrested a senior leader of al Qaeda during a security operation carried out by western Baquba.
. Article IV of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2005 that the business of which is a terrorist is a threat of violence and to provoke sectarian strife, civil war or sectarian fighting by arming citizens or get them to arm themselves for some of inciting or financing.
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