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Shafaq News-
Baghdad

Iraq’s National Center for International Judicial
Cooperation handed over two suspects —a juvenile holding Finnish citizenship
and another holding American citizenship— to the competent authorities in their
respective countries, following confirmation that neither belonged to ISIS
terrorist networks.

The center said
the handover was completed after all legal and judicial procedures were
finalized, within the framework of international judicial coordination and
cooperation, and as part of Iraq’s ongoing efforts to manage the file of
detainees linked to terrorism cases.

The
extraditions are part of a broader process following Iraq’s receipt of between
5,000 and 7,000 ISIS detainees transferred from Syrian detention camps that the
Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces closed after withdrawing, in an operation
coordinated with the United States. Iraq’s Ministry of Justice said it has
completed investigations into 1,000 suspected ISIS members and signed
repatriation agreements with several countries.

Read more: ISIS detainee transfers: “Third-generation” threat puts Iraq’s security to the test