“Alum and salt”… the way drug dealers get out of prisons – NIRIJ

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“Alum and salt”… the way drug dealers get out of prisons – NIRIJ

Ibtihal Salem, a 22-year-old woman incarcerated in the Central Women’s Prison in Baghdad, openly acknowledges her 12 arrests for drug trafficking. She claims that after each detention, she managed to persuade the security forces to release her, with only her drugs being seized, while she paid bribes to secure her freedom. The unmarried woman, who has not received any formal education, began her involvement in the drug trade in 2018, when she was…