BAGHDAD (NINA) - The Parliamentary Human Rights Committee revealed that there are more than three central government prisons, which are officially out of service.

"The Parliamentary Committee hosted the Minister of Justice and Ministry officials on the prisons file and the role of the Central Reform," Qusay al-Shabaki, deputy head of the committee, told the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA), referring to the main challenges facing the Ministry. He pointed out the most prominent challenges in the work of the Ministry related to the file of prisons, which are witnessing a large crowded inmates and depositors.


He added that "there are more than three central government prisons are actually out of service, including the Badush prison, which was destroyed by ISIS terrorist gangs, and Abu Ghraib prison," noting that "there is a need to establish, expand and renovate existing prisons or the construction of new prisons in the presence of large numbers of convicts and depositors in the prison, calling on the government to increase the Ministry's allocations and find suitable alternative locations for the central prisons.


The Parliamentary Human Rights Committee recently addressed the government and the Ministry of Justice to provide it with a database and official statistics on the number and names of victims of the Badush prison in Mosul./ End




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