The Iraqi Parliament's committee for martyrs and political prisoners announced that the government allotted 200bn IQD ($172m) as compensation for political prisoners who spent time in the former regime's prisons.
Head of the committee Mohammed al-Hindawi said: "The committee put forward a project to the Cabinet of Ministers to compensate all political prisoners with 50,000 IQD ($43.00) for each day spent in prison during the former regime era.

"Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki agreed on the suggestion and ordered allocating 200bn IQD for this purpose.

"The committee finished studying a proposal for giving political prisoners a right of inclusion of studies, missions, fellowships, as well as granting the political prisoners’ families functions and privileges who did not receive land in the past as part of restorative justice."







AKnews