BAGHDAD/ Aswat al-Iraq: Chairman of the ministerial committee on the demonstrators' demands Hussein al-Shahristani announced that 234 detainees were released from Baghdad Risafa detention center, thus "the figure will reach more than 2730 detainees".
He added that the names of the released persons are published in the official gazette, to confirm such action.
The Committee is continuing its deliberations to release other detainees who were captured without referring their cases to justice.