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Families seek news of detained Iranians in Iraq by Hiedeh Farmani
Sun Apr 8, 10:54 AM ET



TEHRAN (AFP) - The families of five Iranians held for three months in US detention in Iraq met an International Committee of the Red Cross representative on Sunday to ask for news about their health, state media said.


The meeting came after an Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Baghdad in February said after his release last week that he had been tortured "day and night" and interrogated by CIA officials. Washington denied the claims

President George W. Bush had said on Tuesday he agreed with British Prime Minister Tony Blair "that there should be no quid pro quos when it comes to the hostages."

However just days before the release of the British sailors, Jalal Sharafi, second secretary at the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, was freed by his unidentified captors.

Iran accused the United States and elements linked to the Iraqi defence ministry of being behind his abduction.

Sharafi said after returning to Tehran that he was "subjected to different forms of torture day and night" while in captivity.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070408/wl_mideast_afp/iraniraqusdetainees