Naji: Pressures not prevent Sadr Trend from withdrawing confidence from Maliki

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Ahrar bloc assured that “The events of Rusafa prison will not prevent the Sadr Trend from going on in its proposal for withdrawing confidence from the government of the Premier, Nouri al-Maliki.”

The Spokesman of Ahrar bloc, Mushriq Naji, stated to IraqiNews.com “The case of Rusafa prison is a governmental attempt to pressurize the Sadr Trend to abandonee its stance concerning withdrawing confidence from Maliki.”

“There was a committee that includes the Minister of Justice and the Minister of National Security formed to transfer the prisoners to another place,” he added.

“Clashes took place when a security forces to transfer the prisoners, most of them belong to Sadr Trend, by force,” he continued.

“These pressures will not change our stance concerning withdrawing confidence from the government,” he concluded.

Earlier, a huge fire broke out in Rusafa prison in al-Baladiyat area of northeastern Baghdad on Tuesday.

Official source from the prison stated to IraqiNews.com “A special security force raided the prison and attempted to move the prisoners to unidentified place but the Administration of the prison rejected.”

“The force tried to move the prisoners by force which resulted in hand clashes between the force and the prisoners,” the source added.

“The conditions are still tensed in the prison where the prisoners lighted the fire in the prison to protest the attempt for moving them to unidentified place,” the source concluded.