French ISIS Fighters Face Alleged Torture in Iraqi Prison, Families Warn

Through correspondence, the prisoners have informed their families of the "torture", "humiliation" and "incessant threats" from certain guards. These militiamen, who are responsible for their security, have also informed them of the imminence of their execution in this prison, or after a transfer to the Nasiriyah prison, in southern Iraq.

Fearing for the lives of their sequestered sons, the "united families" collective denounced, on Thursday, January 23, in a press release, the detention conditions of the 11 French citizens sentenced to death in Iraq in May and June 2019. This collective brings together relatives of jihadists or French children detained in camps and prisons in Syria and Iraq.

The families have also asked the French government "to intervene to put an end to any form of inhuman and degrading treatment inflicted on the prisoners, so that the death sentences handed down are commuted".