Abid Jaru, Baath regime's greatest torturer, captured

Iraqi Security expert Fazil Abu Zehif said that a high-level criminal of the Baath regime, who was in the Kurdistan Region from the 1970s to 1997 and tortured and oppressed Kurds in prisons, had been captured.

Iraqi Security expert Fazil Abu Zehif wrote in his account on a social media platform that Hayrullah Hamadi Abid Jaru, known as the great torturer of the Baath regime, had been captured.

Fazil Abu Zehif added that Hayrullah Hamadi Abid Jaru fled Iraq after the collapse of the Baath regime.

According to the statements made, Hayrullah Hamadi was the head of security centers in Serçemen, Derbendixan, Dukan, Zaxo and Duhok during the Baath regime. Hayrullah Hamasi was in the Kurdistan Region from the 1970s to 1997. On his return to Baghdad, he continued to work as an officer investigating Kurdish files in Baghdad and later became head of the Beled, Rasafa and Kerix security units.