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PRESS RELEASE 
OF IRAQ COMMITTEES
- JANUARY 6, 2004 -

 

 

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INTERNATIONAL APPEAL

The “International Action to Defend the President Saddam Hussein” (IADSH) and the “Iraq Committees”, in total solidarity, suport the call launched in France by the “AMITIES FRANCO-IRAKIENNES” (French-Iraqi Friendship) for the respect of the rights of the legitimate President of Iraq.

SADDAM HUSSEIN: PRISONER OF WAR
APPEAL FOR THE RESPECT
OF THE 1949 CONVENTIONS OF GENEVA

The unworthy treatment reserved to President Saddam Hussein violates all the principles of international law : drugged and manhandled by his abductors, he has been exhibited before medias and has been interrogated illegally by the occupation troops and their collaborators. He is sequestrated in a place held secret without  representatives of the Red Cross being able to meet him. 

With the exception of the Vatican that deplored the revolting lot reserved to the Iraqi head of state and condemned that he is treated “like an animal”, the international community closes indulgently its eyes on the questionable intrigues of the United States hose leaders behave like the decadent Caesars who delivered prisoners of war to public condemnation. 

Trampling on the enemy has never made anybody grow in stature. In the ase in point, the treatment reserved to Saddam Hussein has only accentuated  the feeling of humiliation and anger felt by the Iraqi people and a big part of the Arab and Moslem people.

In these conditions, it is advisable to apply strictly the arrangements of the international law to President Saddam Hussein and the other Iraqi prisoners, civilian and military. Article 13 of he Convention of Geneva on prisoners of war stipulates notably that they “must be treated in all time with humanity” and that they must “be protected in all time notably against all act of violence or intimidation, against abuses and the public curiosity”. It is prohibited  publishing photographs that could give of the prisoner a degrading picture. Finally, according to  article 14 “prisoners of war have right in all circumstances to the respect of their person and their honour”. Otherwise, the international Committee of the Red Cross must have access to all persons protected by the Convention of Geneva.

Signers recall solemnly that President Saddam Hussein is a prisoner of war and that to this title he has the right to fully benefit of the 1949 Conventions of Geneva.

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Answer to:
IADSH – Luc MICHEL – 39 Maagdenstraat – B/1000 Brussels (Belgium)
defendsaddamhussein@yahoo.com
Fax : + 32 22187359

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