Amman (Jordan), July 14: Iraq’s jailed ex-deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz has been handed over by the US military to the Iraqi authorities, his lawyer said today, warning that his client’s life is “in danger now.”
“The American side handed over Aziz and other detainees to the Iraqi side on Tuesday night,” Amman-based lawyer Badie Aref told AFP.
“Aziz called me and said he was being held in the Kazemieh prison in Baghdad.”
Aref urged intervention by international organisations.
“He should have been released. What the Americans did violates the Red Cross code because they handed him over to his enemies. His life is in danger now.”
Aref said Aziz told him that US President Barack Obama “is no different to (former US president George) Bush, and that he will take part in killing us, indirectly.
–Agencies