Iraqi Communist Party newspaper Tariq al-Sha'b reported...

Iraqi Communist Party newspaper Tariq al-Sha'b reported that on 25 June, the [Iraqi] authorities handed over the bodies of three citizens, that they had executed earlier, to their families in Al-Hindiyah Administrative District and its environs. The victims are: 1. citizen Karim Muhammad Al-Nashmi, aged 35, from Al-Dayiniyah district in Al-Hindiyah Administrative District; 2. citizen Aid Jasim Abd Ayub, from Al-Jadwal al-Gharbi Sub-Administrative District which belongs to Al-Hindiyah Administrative District; 3. citizen Ali Abbis Khashan, from Al-D'um on the touristic road of Rif Al-Hindiyah.
They were executed for having resisted the terrorist patrols which belong to the [Iraqi] authority. It said that they were part of a bigger group of citizens, whom the authorities executed all its members for the same charge, and handed over their bodies to their families in the same period. It was not possible to know the number and the names of the others [victims]. It also reported that the regime's authorities have forbidden the families of the victims to hold mourning ceremony.
Sources disclosed that the bloody regime's authority committed further crimes of execution of citizens in June, for political reasons, as punishment for having led a hostile act or having opinions considered "hostile" according to the leaders rules. On 23 June, five citizens were executed in Abu Ghreb prison. Three of them for political reasons. They are: 1. Jabbar Sadiq Ali, from Basra, born in 1962; 2. Fadil Mahdi Jawad, from Al-Shatrah, born in 1971; 3. Khalil Baqir Hashim, Baghdad, Al-Shu'lah District, born in 1973. Our sources reported that the authorities did not hand over the bodies of the victims to their families. They buried them in an unknown place.
A week earlier, in mid-June, the executioners of Abu-Ghreb prison killed five other citizens, who were imprisoned for political reasons. Only two of them were sentenced to death; they are: 1. Naji Hamid Zahid, from Baghdad, Al-Thawrah District, born in 1975; 2. Abd-al-Salam Hadi Jawad, from Basra, born in 1964.
The three others, who were detained but were not sentenced, are: 1. Ghanim Ala Mahdi, from Al-Nasiriyah, born in 1962; 2. Mahmud Hadi Nasif, from Baghdad, Al-Thawrah District, born in 1969; 3. Faris Abbas Wadi, born in 1965.
The authorities did not let the families of the five victims to bury them. They were transferred at night to Al-Sayd Ibrahim cemetery in Al-Jadiriyah District in Baghdad, accompanied by a patrol from the Security General Directory, and were buried there in the darkness of the night. [Dated] 2 August 2002.