The exis­tence of secret pris­ons is already reported on Al-Hayat and on this web­site: “Secret prison in South Bagh­dad run by the CIA” in Sep­tem­ber last year. Aljazeera released a video of an inter­view with some detainees

Shortly after Maliki’s press con­fer­ence in which he announced the assas­si­na­tion of the two Al-Qaeda lead­ers, Latimes pub­lished a story about a secret prison estab­lished by spe­cial forces work under the prime Minister’s command.

The tim­ing of the story is not coin­ci­dence, we don’t know who leaked the story, but it is polit­i­cally moti­vated action meant to take Maliki back to earth after his (U.S. boosted) few hours of vic­tory. An offi­cial in the Human Rights Min­istry told AKI that there are polit­i­cal moti­va­tions behind the leak of the “secret prison” (accord­ing to Al-Sumeria, there are at least 4 secret prisons).

Despite the infor­ma­tion that the secret prison(s) is used to detain Sun­nis, the Sadrists were the first and the only reacted. Sadrist Baha’a Al-Araji told Kuwaiti news­pa­per Al-Dar:

This scan­dal is the sil­ver bul­let which will end Maliki’s gov­ern­ment and polit­i­cal future.

The Sadrists also deployed their pris­on­ers in the offi­cial pris­ons to demon­strate in “sol­i­dar­ity” with other detainees in the secret prisons.

Aljazeera revealed that high-ranked offi­cers con­nected to Maliki are run­ning these pris­ons, and Maliki’s Dawa Party head­quar­ters is based in an office near the prison.