Jewish inmates have been killed and wounded in an Iraqi prison disturbance which resulted in 36 casualties, according to a report received here from the Directorate General of Public Propaganda in Baghdad.
The report alleged that at the prison of Kut, ” Communist convicts” rioted on behalf of “15 Jewish convicts and obstructed their being taken out from them.” It alleged that the inmates “attacked the police force and guards, who were unarmed, with stones and lethal weapons…a number of policemen rushed to their barracks for their arms and closed in on the convicts…The engagement resulted in the killing and wounding of a number of convicts.”
The alleged Communist leaders were identified as Moshe Nvim (Koman), Hezkiel Nahim (Kochman), Muhammed Radi Shubbak, Akram Huseyn and Muhammad Abd Al-Latif. An investigation has been undertaken at the prison, it was reported.
Israel sources have from time to time reported the brutal treatment of Jews in Iraqi prisons. Many Jews have been jailed in Iraq on spurious charges of “Zionist-Communist activities” and similar allegations.
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