Khalid Jarrar has been released

Last month I blogged about Iraqi blogger Khalid Jarrar, who had been arrested by the Mukhabarat. According to his blog, he has now been released. The full details of his imprisonment can be found here, and they're not pretty reading. He was detained for reading his brother Raed's blog (which seems to be classified as a "terrorism site" by the Mukhabarat, beaten, and spent eight days imprisoned in a 12 square meter cell shared with 35 other people. While he wasn't tortured, he knows plenty of people who were (you can read the appalling details in the post). And he's now dedicated himself to working for the basic rights of detainees:

The question is: what about the rest of Iraqis? The ones who don’t have the money or the power to leave places like that? The innocent people who were taken away from their families and loved ones and accused of false crimes? What happens to them? Who will stand for them? What about human rights? What about civil rights? What about humanity? Here are just some of the people that were in the jail and their cases, as a sample to the cases. I hope that these people and all the other Iraqi prisoners will go back home safe. And I’ll work with my family to ask the US administration and the Iraqi authorities to improve the situation of the detention for the Iraqis. People should have the right to inform their families about their location, and they should have the right to appear in front of a judge very soon after being detained without being questioned and tortured, and they should have real lawyers in the court, they should at least know their charges!

We should all wish him luck - because he'll need it.