US frees scores from Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison

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Source: AFP

BAGHDAD - The US military has released more than 100 prisoners from Abu Ghraib jail, which has been renamed Baghdad Central Prison, Iraqi officials said on Thursday.

The human rights ministry told AFP the 107 Iraqis were freed from the prison in west Baghdad on Wednesday under the US-Iraqi security pact that calls for American soldiers to withdraw from Iraq by the end of 2011.

A series of releases started on February 3 as a key part of the deal signed in November that provides for a gradual return of Iraqi sovereignty and a handover of security responsibilities.

Under the agreement, prisoners must either be set free or handed over to the Iraqi authorities.

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1. well, there is a little progress.