Iraqi man jailed for five years on spurious terror charges

Thursday 17 March 2011 Authorities urged to release Walid Yunis Ahmad who was convicted of charges believed to have been fabricated to justify 10 years of unlawful imprisonment. Amnesty International has called on the authorities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) to release an Iraqi man who was today sentenced to five years in prison on charges it believes were fabricated to justify years of unlawful imprisonment. Walid Yunis Ahmad, who had already been detained without trial for 11 years, was convicted of "sending orders and instructions from prison to his followers in Kirkuk…

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