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Kurdistan political prisoners issue solved
3.7.2009
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July
3, 2009
ERBIL-Hewlêr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — The
issue of Kurdistan political prisoners salaries was
solved, a source reported.
Political prisoners will get their salaries from the
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) early this
month, deputy head of the political prisoners
committee reported.
Suleiman Azhgayi told AKnews on Thursday that the
Kurdistan Regional Government has decided to
allocate salaries for the political prisoners of
Kurdistan region starting on 1 July.
“The salary is only am honorary sum which does not
affect the official salary they take from other
places” he said.
The political prisoners committee have the files of
403 political prisoners ready whose salaries will be
linked with the ministry of Martyrs,www.ekurd.net
and
those whose files have not been handled as of yet
will be settled by a special committee, Azhgayi
said.
On Wednesday, KRG deputy prime minister, Imad Ahmed,
and KRG finance minister,www.ekurd.net
Bayiz
Talabani, met with the political prisoners committee
and decided to allocate salaries for the political
prisoners and take all measure to create a
directorate for the political prisoners within the
ministry of Martyrs and Anfals.
The issue of the Kurdistan region political
prisoners (those who had been jailed during the
former regime of Saddam Hussein on a political
basis) had been left in limbo for the past two
years.
KRG would argue that their salaries had to be paid
by the Iraqi government while Baghdad was adamant
that their salaries were included to the 17% budget
of the Kurdistan region.
Political prisoners in the disputed areas receive
their salaries from Baghdad.
• No political prisoners, secret prisons in
Kurdistan
The Kurdistan Regional Government’s UN coordinator,
Dindar Zebari, in April 2009 denied the existence of
secret prisons or political prisoners in the
autonomous region, adding that a senior committee
has been set up to examine an Amnesty International
report on human rights in the region.
“No one has been arrested without a court order. The
doors of our prisons are always open to
international organizations…,” Zebari said in a
press conference that was attended by Aswat al-Iraq
news agency.
On April 14, the London-based Amnesty International
published a report, in which it criticized the human
rights situation in the region. The report included
cases of human rights violations, random detentions,
torture, and violence against women in Iraq’s
Kurdistan region.
“Amnesty International did not reflect the positive
aspects in the region, including an improvement in
the situation of women…,” Zebari added.
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