Urgent – ..Maliki approves including all women detainees in private amnesty

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi Premier, Nouri al-Maliki, approved, on Tuesday including all the women prisoners, without condition, in the request of the private amnesty.

A statement by the Premier office received by IraqiNews.com cited “Maliki received at his office in Baghdad the Tribal initiative commission which was formed from the Iraqi tribes in a number of Iraqi provinces.”

The statement quoted Maliki as saying “The Government made several practical measures to meet the legitimate demands of the demonstrators,’ confirming “The commissions concerned to follow up these demands will go on its work.”

“For their part, the tribal leaders stressed that the formation of the tribal initiative commission was under request of the citizens and the clergymen in an attempt to curb the sectarianism that Iraq’s enemies want to ignite,” the statement concluded.