The Iraqi parliament's human rights committee has called on the Algerian government to immediately sign a legal agreement with the Iraqi government to allow the extradition of 130 Algerian prisoners held in Iraq for belonging to the Iraqi resistance.
According to the committee, a similar agreement was recently signed between Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
The committee also reported that under the recent U.S.-Iraq security agreement, U.S. troops have begun to transfer some 50 prisoners every day to the Iraqi authorities, of 10,.000 whom they are holding.
Source: Al-Quds Al-Arabi, London, March 2, 2009
