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Ex-Iraqi deputy prime minister threatens hunger strike in jail
 Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz, who collapsed in a US military prison earlier this month, is in failing health and he has threatened to go on hunger strike, his son told AFP on Thursday. I spoke to my father on the phone yesterday. His voice was weak and inaudible. I could hardly understand him but he is clearly in bad shape, Ziad Aziz said, in a telephone interview. He said that he understood from his father that he and 14 co-detainees plan on starting a hunger strike next week if the court continues to deny him the right to have a lawyer present during interrogations. My fathers lawyer Badih Aref Ezzat is not allowed in Iraq for mysterious reasons and as a result my father is without a lawyer, said Aziz who has lived in Jordan with his family since April 2003.Posted by: Fred 2007-07-27 |
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