in conjunction with the visit of the, Algerian Foreign Minister , Ramtan Lamamra on Saturday to Baghdad .

Two Algerian prisoners arrived at Algiers International Airport on Saturday evening, who were detained in Iraq , Muhammad Ali Bojnana and Khaled Mohammed Abdul Kader , who spent 10 years in Iraqi prisons after being arrested in 2003 by U.S. troops , where an Iraqi court sentenced them to ten years , on charges of entering Iraq illegally according to what is stipulated in the Iraqi Passport Law .

An official source at the Foreign Ministry linked to " al-Arabiya . Net file " , said that "The Iraqi authorities have released the prisoners and taken on a journey from Baghdad airport to Algeria , they arrived on Sunday evening ," after a week that they have spent at the interests of the Iraqi Department of Immigration and Passport to complete all actions and measures relating to their deportation .

Meanwhile , a spokesman for Algerian prisoners in Iraq told " al-Arabya . Net" from inside a prison in Baghdad, that the two Algerian prisoners, Khaled Mohammed Abdul Kader and Bojnana Muhammad Ali , called on Saturday their remaining eight Algerian colleagues in Iraqi prisons .

They are Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed Wabed , Bades Kamal Musa , Abdul Haq Saadi Muhammadiyah , Abdul Hadi Ahmed al-Maadheed , Ali Saeed Ibrahim , Bou Saleh Nasr Mohamed Talabiya, Abdul Haq Saeed Jasoom Taher and Saeed Mohammed Abdul Qader Hashim , six of them are sentenced according to the Passport Law , after accusing them of entering Iraq illegally , while two prisoners were convicted on charges of belonging to armed terrorist groups .

The number of Algerian prisoners who have been deported to their country by the Iraqi authorities is four prisoners, after the deportation of two prisoners last March , Mohammed Barika and Ihab Dramchi , having spent 10 years in prison .