Quonset Point, Rhode Island Battery A of The 103d Field Artillery (Photo by Sgt John Cervone)
Rhode Island Artillerymen Return Home
Photos: 272nd MP Company Returns from Iraq
Quonset Point, Rhode Island Battery A of The 103d Field Artillery (Photo by Sgt John Cervone)
Rhode Island Artillerymen Return Home
Photos: 272nd MP Company Returns from Iraq
12:35pm 29th March 2005:
The lawyers who are to defend deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein at his forthcoming trial claimed today they have been denied access to him and do not even know where he is. Now this "scandal" is to be raised in Parliament next week by veteran Labour MP Tam Dalyell, Father of the House of Commons.
'Scandal'
M Matthew Fautin, a lawyer from Rheims, speaking on behalf of his colleague Emmanuel Ludot, said: "We have no access to Saddam nor the other Iraqi leaders who are in captivity and awaiting trial. We do not even know where they are, or even which country they are in. Nor do we know when or where the trial might be.
"We have been trying so far without success to put pressure on relevant officials so that we can see our clients and be briefed by them."
Mr Dalyell, MP for Linlithgow, said: "This is hardly a good example of Western justice. It is scandalous that their lawyers cannot talk to them."