Released Algerian detainee tells the “hell” of Iraqi prisons and excludes Kurdistan Region

Bojnana has been deported from Iraq to Algeria last week, where he arrived to his family in the state of Mila , a few days ago .

He spoke in an interview with reporters in his family's home about the " hell of prisons," by saying : " We have lived through difficult circumstances as we were exposed to all forms of torture on an ongoing basis ."

"I'm sad for my classmates who are still prisoners in Iraqi prisons there , they bear great suffering and harsh conditions , and I call on the Algerian authorities to make humanitarian and diplomatic efforts to end this tragedy”.

The released prisoner, who was sentenced to prison for 10 years and was transferred during the period of his sentence between three prisons , which are : Nasirah prison , Baghdad and Abu Ghraib prison . "

Bojnana talks about Abu Ghraib prison where he spent the worst duration in it by saying, " We have lived through the bitter pain , severe suffering , as well as humiliation violation of human rights “.

He carried a message of the remaining eight Algerian prisoners in Iraq , by saying " the Algerian authorities must pressure on the Iraqi authorities to transfer Algerian prisoners who are in the prisons of southern Iraq to prisons of northern cities ."

He explained the difference of prisons of Kurdistan and said, “these are much more merciful, they are ordinary prisons where prisoners are not subjected to torture or cruel treatment as the case in the South."

Bojnana had spent 10 years in Iraqi prisons after being convicted of entering Iraq illegally.

Bojnana was 18 years old when he was arrested in Iraq by U.S. forces after the invasion of Iraq, his family did not know any news about him , he moved from city Mila to Wahran, western Algeria to study religious sciences , but he told his family that he decided to move to Syria to receive religious Science, and that was the last contact between him and his family until they were informed that he is in Iraqi prisons .

The released prisoner , Mohammed Ali Bojnana rejected to talk about how he arrived in Iraq , but networks that had been active in Algeria in 2003 , may be behind encouraging young people to join the armed groups in Iraq , in order to resist the U.S. invasion .