Saddam's lawyers "under US confinement" in Baghdad
dpa German Press Agency
Published: Tuesday November 7, 2006
Amman- The head of the defence team of the deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein Tuesday accused the US troops of preventing him and his colleagues from returning to Amman and depriving them of an access to the media and the world's legal organizations. "The defence team members remained on the alert and under a kind of confinement inside the Green Zone since Monday, while several experts, observers and journalists who attended the last session have been evacuated," Khalil Duleimi said in a letter e-mailed to the media in Amman.
"It should be noted that the American authorities have promised to secure our return to Amman not later than Monday, 6th of November," he added.
Duleimi charged that delaying the return of the team member to Amman where they are based "has only one sole aim - that is to gain time in order to obstruct the lawyers' efforts to get access to the media and international organizations in their effort to prevent the implementation of the unjust judgements."
The defence team, which also included former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, were present in the courtroom when the presiding judge Raouf Abdul Rahman read out the death verdicts against Saddam and two of his former top aides on Sunday.
Duleimi also accused the court of "deliberate procrastination" in providing the defence team with the full transcript of the ruling in a bid to delay the appeal of the verdicts before the Court of Cassation.
The tribunal gives the defendants 30 days to submit their appeal request.
"The defence team holds the court responsible for depriving it from having adequate time to study and review the incrimination decision, which should include the legal justifications of the verdict," Duleimi said.
© 2006 dpa German Press Agency
Published: Tuesday November 7, 2006
Amman- The head of the defence team of the deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein Tuesday accused the US troops of preventing him and his colleagues from returning to Amman and depriving them of an access to the media and the world's legal organizations. "The defence team members remained on the alert and under a kind of confinement inside the Green Zone since Monday, while several experts, observers and journalists who attended the last session have been evacuated," Khalil Duleimi said in a letter e-mailed to the media in Amman.
"It should be noted that the American authorities have promised to secure our return to Amman not later than Monday, 6th of November," he added.
Duleimi charged that delaying the return of the team member to Amman where they are based "has only one sole aim - that is to gain time in order to obstruct the lawyers' efforts to get access to the media and international organizations in their effort to prevent the implementation of the unjust judgements."
The defence team, which also included former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, were present in the courtroom when the presiding judge Raouf Abdul Rahman read out the death verdicts against Saddam and two of his former top aides on Sunday.
Duleimi also accused the court of "deliberate procrastination" in providing the defence team with the full transcript of the ruling in a bid to delay the appeal of the verdicts before the Court of Cassation.
The tribunal gives the defendants 30 days to submit their appeal request.
"The defence team holds the court responsible for depriving it from having adequate time to study and review the incrimination decision, which should include the legal justifications of the verdict," Duleimi said.
© 2006 dpa German Press Agency
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