Hundreds of women on hunger strike at Iraqi prison
By Murad Shishani & Nick SturdeeAt least 400 women are in the second week of a hunger strike in a high-security prison in Iraq's capital Baghdad, the BBC has learned.
After its fall in 2017, tens of thousands of former members were rounded up. It is alleged many of the men were summarily executed, but thousands of women and children were taken into detention. Some were repatriated to their home nations, but many remain in Syrian and Iraqi jails. The hunger strike is a protest against both their convictions and the conditions they are being held in.
The facility is located east of Baghdad, and holds women serving sentences for various crimes - not all terror-related. The inmates said they were held 40 to a cell, and were often subjected to beatings and inhumane treatment. The Iraqi government declined to answer the BBC's questions about the hunger strike or conditions in the prison. Previously, it has said it wants to help those who are innocent of any crime to return to their home countries.
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