Saddam Drops Legal Team
Saddam Hussein met his lawyer and the chief judge investigating charges against him on Tuesday and confirmed that the rest of his legal team had been sacked.
“The judge asked president Saddam Hussein about his family’s statement that his legal team had been fired and he confirmed it,” Khalil Dulaimi, the only lawyer authorized to represent the toppled Iraqi leader, told Reuters.
Saddam’s family scrapped the international team of attorneys claiming to represent him and will pick a new set of heavyweight lawyers to defend him against war crimes charges, his family’s lawyer, Abdel Haq Alani, said this month.
He said Saddam’s family had revoked any right of attorney previously issued to any lawyers to represent Saddam, and had chosen Dulaimi who attends Saddam’s court hearings as the “only authorized lawyer at this moment”.
Source: CNN.
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