Sunday, 20. October 2002
Topic: - on October 20, 2002 at 8:28:41 PM CEST
Iraq 'empties its jails'
Iraqi television has been showing pictures of joyful prisoners leaving jail, shortly after the authorities announced an unprecedented general amnesty. A nationally televised statement from the Revolution Command Council, read by Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, said the "full and complete and final amnesty" applied to "any Iraqi imprisoned or arrested for political or any other reason".
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