2023-04-27 17:47:05
A group of foreign women imprisoned in Iraq on suspicion of terrorism went on hunger strike. This was reported to “Azattyk” by Kyrgyz women who are serving their sentences in “Rusafa” prison in Baghdad.
Kavkaz.Realii, based on its sources in prison, wrote that among the hunger strikers there are citizens of Dagestan, Chechnya, Russia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkey and other countries, in addition to Kyrgyz.
They are demanding to drop the charges against them and return them to their homeland. Diaspora of Dagestanis in Istanbul also confirmed that women went on hunger strike.
At the beginning of April, 40 women in “Rusafa” prison turned to “Azattyk” and asked for help to return to their homeland and to express their voices to the Kyrgyz authorities.
They reported that they followed their husbands and children to Syria and Iraq in 2013-2015, and were convicted in Baghdad as “members of a terrorist group.”
Reuters reported that on March 19, 2021, 494 foreign women were in prison in Ar-Rusafa district of Baghdad. It is noted that they are citizens of 18 countries, including Central Asians.
In 2016-2018, the Iraqi authorities, after expelling the fighters of the radical Islamist group “Islamic State” from the country, imprisoned and severely punished jihadists and their women. Kyrgyz citizens are among those imprisoned for a long period of time.
According to Kyrgyz laws, they are considered to have “committed a serious crime”.
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