Release of female prisoners demanded
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers threatened in a videotape yesterday to slit the throats of three civilians â-wo Americans and a Briton â -ess authorities released female prisoners from two US-run prisons in Iraq.
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Two high-profile women prisoners in American custody will not be released immediately, the US embassy said in Baghdad, despite an earlier announcement by Iraqi authorities.
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BAGHDAD, 19 September 2004 - Kidnappers of two Americans and a Briton yesterday threatened to behead them unless Iraqi women held at two American-controlled detention facilities were freed within 48 hours.
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Female interrogators repeatedly used sexually suggestive tactics to try to humiliate and pry information from devout Muslim men held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a military investigation not yet public and newly declassified accounts from detainees.
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BAGHDAD -- A British hostage threatened with death by a militant Islamic group appealed to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain yesterday to save his life by ordering the release of all women held in Iraqi prisons.
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Taliban-linked militants in Afghanistan holding three kidnapped U.N. workers demanded on Sunday the release of 26 prisoners, some possibly in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, in return for sparing the hostages' ...
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BAGHDAD - The director of CARE International who is being held captive in Iraq has appeared in another videotape pleading for the release of female prisoners in Iraq and the withdrawal of British troops.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Kidnappers threatening to kill three foreign UN workers in Afghanistan complained yesterday that the government had yet to free 26 Taliban prisoners as part of a deal they said it made to secure the trio's release.
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DOHA : A Polish woman held hostage by a militant group in Iraq was shown in a video on Al-Jazeera TV on Saturday night pleading for the withdrawal of Polish troops from the country and the release of women prisoners to save her life.
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Baghdad - Iraqi authorities together with United States forces have decided to free one of only two high-profile women prisoners currently in American custody, a ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday.
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Militants linked to wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi have threatened to kill three Western hostages unless the United States releases female prisoners from two Iraqi jails within 48 hours.
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Authorities insisted they won&#39;t give in to militants&#39; demands to free female Iraqi prisoners despite the broadcast of a videotape that showed
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Girls and women prisoners are verbally abused while transported in vans along with males, a new report says.
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The aid charity Care International has appealed to the captors of its Iraq director Margaret Hassan to release her.
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Iraqi-British hostage Margaret Hassan has urged Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq and free Iraqi women prisoners, Al Jazeera reported Wednesday.
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Authorities insisted they won't give in to militants' demands to free female Iraqi prisoners despite the plea of a tearful British hostage begging Britain to save his life in a video released by his captors.
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31 October 2004 -- The United Nations has again appealed for the kidnappers of three UN workers in Afghanistan to release them unharmed.