American forces release 300 Iraqi prisoners

The Iraqi human rights ministry announced that the American forces released more than 300 Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghreib prison which is situated on the outskirts of Baghdad on Sunday, so as the number of Iraqis released from this jail reached 800.

The ministry expected the release of more detainees in the coming weeks. These detentions exclude what the ministry described as those constituting danger on security.

More than 8,000 Iraqis are still held in the American jails in Iraq, one thousand of them will be put on trial by the central criminal court in Iraq on accusations addressed to them. Cases of other prisoners will be studied within each three or four months.

Worthy mentioning that since the joining of the Iraqi human rights ministry to the council run by the American forces established in August 2004 to review the situations of detainees, some 4,000 Iraqi prisoners were released from the American jails in Iraq.

The American forces hold most of the detainees in Buka camp which is run by these forces to the south of Iraq. However after the mistreatment scandal of the Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghreib jail at the hands of the American soldiers in 2004, efforts were made to evacuate the jails and transfer the detainees.

Accusations were addressed to 8 American soldiers over their role in violations in Abu Ghreib jail, many of them were tried at a military court and one of them was sentenced to ten years imprisonment.