Saddam files new complaint

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Saddam files new complaint
From correspondents in Paris

LAWYERS for ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein said today they had filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights calling on France to make the United States respect the Geneva Conventions.

The complaint is based on article one of the Geneva Convention, which calls on all signatories to "respect and to ensure respect for the present Convention in all circumstances", said Emmanuel Ludot, one of Saddam's lawyers.

According to Saddam's defence team, Washington "has not respected the Geneva Convention at all", specifically articles 85 and 105 which detail the required living conditions for prisoners of war and provisions for their representation.

Ludot said Saddam's lawyers "are physically incapable of meeting their client as the detaining power has acted in such a way as to paralyse the rights of the defence, pure and simple".


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