Shiite Militias Torture Algerian Detainees in Iraqi Prisons

Coordination of Supporting Algerian Detainees in Iraq, called upon the President for urgent intervention to save them from Shiite militias that control much of Iraq’s prisons, and which deliberately torture the Sunni detainees, by exercising the worst kind of violence against them to revenge the Saudi authorities that executed Shiite man Baker Namer since days ago.

It confirmed that the Algerian detainees faced unfair provisions without taking into account the fair trial’s requirements, as they were arrested at various times since more than ten years by the American forces and the Iraqi intelligence during the US occupation of Iraq, on charges that are related to resisting the US occupation, or bypassing the Iraqi border in illegally.

Coordination of supporting the Algerian detainees in Iraq added that the detainees were held throughout that period without enjoying any legal rights, and squandered their rights to a fair trial, as they were sentenced before in exceptional courts to prison term of between five years and life imprisonment, and some of them have unknown legal positions because the Iraqi authorities refused to disclose any information about them, for example, the family of the detainee Hacheme Ben Taher, from Tiaret province (Western Algeria), did not hear about his news since 2013, and the Algerian prisoner, Abdelhaq, disappeared from Soulaimaniyah prison in Kurdistan in Iraq, since seven months and there are no news about him until now.