Saudi Arabia postpones execution of Iraqis, sentenced to death, for 2 months

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Saudi Arabia has decided to postpone the execution of Iraqis, detained in its country, for two months, according to a statement by the Vice-Chairwoman of the Facts-Finding Committee for Iraqi Detainees in Saudi Arabia, Kamila al-Moussawi, on Monday.”We have received a report on Sunday, text of which had not been officially confirmed yet by the International Anti-Terrorism Organization, that Saudi Arabia had stopped executions of Iraqis, sentenced there, for 2 months, and the Iraqi Embassy in Riyadh had been officially informed aboutthat,” Moussawi, the Legislature of the Islamic Fadila (Virtue) Party stressed, in a statement, copy of which was received by IraqiNews.com news agency.Moussawi, meanwhile, called on the Iraqi government to “act seriously to find a settlement for the innocent Iraqis, detained in Saudi prisons,who were not executed yet, whilst 44 of them had been executed till now.””We also call on the government to implement the calls of the Facts-Finding Committee for Iraqi Detainees in Saudi Arabia, formed few months ago, on the occasion of the signing of the Agreement for the Exchange of Detainees with Saudi Arabia and to activate its diplomatic content,”she said.A number of Iraq’s Parliament members have confirmed that Saudi authorities had arrested a number of Iraqis, working on the joint borders between both countries, during the period that followed 2003, charging that they had been targets for torture, whilst some of them have been executed. 748