Families of Ninewa detainees demand their release

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Dozens of families of detainees in northern Iraq’s Ninewa Province has started a sit-in demonstration in central Mosul’s al-Tahrir (Liberation) Square on Tuesday, demanding the release of their relatives from prisons, according to a security source.   “About 100 men and women have started a sit-in demonstration in al-Tahrir Square, close to a Mosul prison, demanding the release of their relatives, whilst the city is witnessing a sit-in demonstration since April 9th on the Ninth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq,” the security source told IraqiNews.com news agency.   The demonstrators, the source said: “are demanding the release of their relatives, including those detained in Baghdad prisons,” adding that they carried placards, demanding the release of their relatives from prisons and the withdrawal of the U.S. forces from Iraq.   Mosul, the center of Ninewa Province, is 405 km to the north of Baghdad.   SKH (IT) 430