The diplomats will meet with Sousa Prison officials and also discuss the case of a Saudi prisoner whose dead body disappeared three years ago. The complaints of the 20 Saudi prisoners will also be discussed to ensure that the prisoners receive their legal rights inside the prison.
The head of the delegation, the Kingdom’s deputy ambassador to Jordan, Hamad Al-Hajir, said that the visit will continue for four days and the delegation will head back to Amman Wednesday.
“Over the course of the next two days we will hold several intensive meetings with prisoners and prison officials,” Al-Hajri said. As for the 43 Saudis incarcerated in other Iraqi prisons, Al-Hajri said it would be difficult for the delegation to visit them due to the current turbulent political situation in the cities where the prisons are located. Six of those Saudi prisoners have been sentenced to death.
Al-Hajri noted that the delegation won’t discuss the case of the children of Mazen Ahmad Masawi, a Saudi prisoner who was executed a few months ago in Iraq and his corpse sent to Jeddah shortly after.
He pointed out that the Iraqi authorities have not yet provided Saudi authorities with the results of the DNA test which would prove the paternity of Masawi’s children in Iraq. “We can’t move Masawi’s family from Iraq to the Kingdom until the DNA results come out.”
The delegation members had to wait for 28 days before the Iraqi Embassy in Amman granted them an entry visa and the Iraqi Ministry of Justice approved the visit.
