Sadam’s Former Prime Minister to Stage Hunger Strike
Ziyad Tariq Aziz, son of former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, told Al-Arabiyah satellite television from Amman on July 26 that his father and 14 other detainees will begin a hunger strike sometime next week to protest their treatment at a U.S.-run detention facility.
“The main reason for the strike is that he has been deprived for five months from meeting his lawyer, Badi Arif Izzat, who is forcibly living in Amman and cannot return to Baghdad for fear of being arrested,” the younger Aziz said.
Tariq Aziz is being held at a U.S. military base outside Baghdad on suspicion of crimes against humanity. He recently suffered a fall, but U.S. medical personnel said Aziz has fully recovered from his injuries. However, his son disagreed. “I would like to stress to the entire world via the Al-Arabiyah channel that my father’s health is deteriorating, and any reports contradicting this, be they from the so-called Iraqi government or the occupation forces, are not true,” Aziz’s son said.
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