IRAQ: U.S. MILITARY RELEASE MORE THAN 200 PRISONERS FROM BAGHDAD'S ABU GHRAIB PRISON

Record ID: 648360

  • Title: IRAQ: U.S. MILITARY RELEASE MORE THAN 200 PRISONERS FROM BAGHDAD'S ABU GHRAIB PRISON
  • Date: 17th October 2004
  • Summary: (U3) AMIRIYA MILITARY BASE, WEST OF BAGHDAD, IRAQ (OCTOBER 17, 2004)(REUTERS) 1. LV BUS CARRYING RELEASED PRISONERS ARRIVING AT BASE 0.10 2. SLV U.S. SOLDIERS AND REPRESENTATIVE OF IRAQ'S MINISTRY OF JUSTICE WAITING INSIDE BASE 0.16 3. SLV TWO BUSES ARRIVING AT BASE 0.30 4. SV OF BUS 0.35 5. SV REPRESENTATIVE OF MINISTRY OF JUSTICE SHAKING HANDS WITH FREED PRISONER/ U.S. SOLDIERS NEARBY 0.42 6. CU RELEASED PRISONERS SITTING IN BUS 0.46 7. SV FREED PRISONERS STEPPING OUT OF BUS 0.54 8. SLV FREED PRISONERS WALKING AWAY 1.00 9. MCU (Arabic) ALI JAMEEL, FREED PRISONER, SAYING: "I do not know why they arrested me. They stormed my house and arrested me. I spent 10 months in prison, I lost my job. But thank God I am released now." 1.14 10. TV PRISONERS STEPPING OUT OF BUS 1.21 11. SLV LIEUTENANT COLONEL RYAN, COMMANDER OF ABU GHRAIB SECTOR AT NEWS CONFERENCE 1.30 12. MCU (English) LIEUTENANT COLONEL RYAN, COMMANDER OF ABU GHRAIB SECTOR, SAYING: "This morning's release is a historic one as today for our purposes because today we are turning the detainee release over to the Ministry of Justice." 1.42 13. SLV PULL IN MCU (Arabic) REPRESENTATIVE OF IRAQI MINISTRY OF JUSTICE NOURI IBRAHIM, SAYING: "We greet you on this holy month and seize the opportunity to talk about the efforts of the interim Iraqi government." 2.14 14. SV IRAQI LOCAL SHEIKH AND U.S. ARMY OFFICER 2.21 15. SV LOCAL TRIBE LEADER 2.28 16. MCU (Arabic) IBRAHIM, SAYING: "The four-member committee studied the cases of the detainees and passed its findings to the multi-national forces, which adopted the decision of the committee and started to release the detainees." 2.45 17. SLV IBRAHIM AND U.S. SOLDIERS 2.55 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVADBHE11CMVH52IZTO5M8KU4EE1
  • Story Text: U.S. military release more than 200 prisoners from
    Baghdad's infamous Abu Ghraib prison handing over control
    of releases to Iraqi Justice Ministry.




    The U.S. military released 260 prisoners on
    Sunday (October 17) from the Abu Ghraib prison, the
    facility near Baghdad where U.S. soldiers were photographed
    sexually humiliating male prisoners.

    The detainees were transported to the release point at
    Amiriya Military base west of Baghdad. The batch included
    111 detainees from Baghdad.

    "I do not know why they arrested me. They stormed my
    house and arrested me. I spent 10 months in prison, I lost
    my job. But thank God I am released now," said Ali Jameel.

    The release marked the turn over from the U.S. forces
    to the Iraqi Ministry of Justice following the setting-up
    of a joint Iraqi and military committee last month assigned
    with reviewing cases of the detainees. The committee
    comprises representatives from the Iraqi Interior, Justice
    and Human rights ministries.

    "This morning's release is a historic one as today for
    our purposes because today we are turning the detainee
    release over to the Ministry of Justice," said Lieutenant
    Colonel Ryan, Commander of Abu Ghraib Sector.

    A representative of the Iraqi Ministry of Justice said
    the release is a result of efforts exerted by the Iraqi
    interim government to help rehabilitate detainees in the
    U.S.-run detention centres.

    "The four-member committee studied the cases of the
    detainees and passed its findings to the multi-national
    forces, which adopted the decision of the committee and
    started to release the detainees," said Nouri Ibrahim.

    Over 5,000 prisoners have been released from Abu Ghraib
    since the scandal involving mistreatment of prisoners at
    the hands of the U.S. soldiers broke out earlier this year.



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