Prisoner’s body executed in Iraq arrives to Algeria
Body of Algerian man executed in Iraq arrived Thursday at the International Airport of Algiers on a Turkish plane ticked by the Algerian embassy in Bagdad under the title “To whom it may concern.”
The International Red Cross accompanied Abdellah Belhadi’s body from a hospital in Badgag until Algeria.
Belhadi was jailed and executed by Iraqi authorities for entering the country in an illegal way and being involved in terror acts.
His ant and her husband who were crying received the body. Tens of people surrounded it. Some of them kept saying this “the man who joined Iraq to fight the US occupation. Iraqi authorities killed him.”
Belhadi entered Iraq in 2005.
According to his brother, an ambulance was brought to take the body to Abdellah’s native town El Oued (south-east of Algiers). The body is expected to be buried on Friday.
The 28-year-old man was executed on October 7th. His family has called on Algerian President Bouteflika to intervene to speed up administrative procedures for his burial.