Iraqi twins to be compensated for imprisonment

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Iraqi twins awarded €426,000 for wrongful imprisonment after massacre acquittal

The State Treasury has announced a compensation of 426,000 euros to Iraqi twins who were first convicted and then acquitted of involvement in a mass killing in Tikrit, Iraq, in 2014.The identical twins arrived in Finland as asylum seekers in 2015. They were arrested in December that year on suspicion of involvement in the killings, following tip-offs from other Iraqi asylum seekers in Finland who had seen an Isis propaganda video showing the mas…