Report: Messages from Iraqis held in Kuwait

The Iraqi weekly Nabd al-Shabab said on Monday that the Iraqi Red Crescent Society during May received some "364 messages from Iraqis held in Kuwaiti jails."

The Iraqi weekly added that these messages were received "at a time when Kuwaiti refuses to admit the existence of Iraqi prisoners or detainees in its territories."

The weekly quoted the society's chairman, Saddeq Alloush, as saying that an agreement was reached with the International Committee of the Red Cross "to follow up matters relating to the missing and detainees especially to the Iraqi detainees held in Kuwait."

In February the chairman of the human rights committee at the Iraqi Parliament, Khaled al-Saidi, announced that, "Iraq has submitted to the International Red Cross files of 1,150 Iraqis who were missed during the war and that the committee has answers only for three files."