Appeal
for proper treatment
of Mr. Tarek Azziz in Iraq
By
Hans
von Sponeck, TFF Associate
& Dennis
Halliday
The BBC has reported that Mr. Tarek
Azziz has suffered a stroke and that his lawyer fears "he
may not live more than a month" following a "cerebral
embolism". The lawyer, Badie Arif Ezzat, has said that
Mr. Azziz is being held in a two square meter cell that
was "only fit to keep dogs in".
Given his apparent health situation
and the fact that he has not been charged after giving
himself up in April 2003, this is a request for his
release from Hans von Sponeck and Denis J. Halliday,
former United Nations Humanitarian Coordinators in Iraq
(1997-2000).
In keeping with the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and the Geneva Conventions
and Protocols, Mr. Azziz, former Foreign Minister and
Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq is entitled to humane
treatment and should not be further held without charges
after three years of incarceration.
At the age of 70 years, in a state
of severely diminished health and now what is reported to
be a stroke:
We express our distress at the
inhumane treatment accorded Mr. Azziz and ask that he be
released immediately by US/Iraqi authorities from custody
in the absence of any charges and that he be allowed to
join his family in a location where adequate medical
facilities can be provided.
We also ask that all other Iraqi
prisoners being held without charge be released by US/
Iraqi authorities without delay.
We likewise ask that all those
civilians, journalists, aid workers and other innocents
being held in Iraq by those involved in resistance to
invasion and occupation also be released
immediately.
In addition, we hope, indeed
expect, that former and current high ranking officials in
Washington and London, as well as Paris, Moscow and
Beijing, and elsewhere, who in the recent past have had
personal contact and communications with Mr. Tarek Azziz,
including the present UN Secretary-General, will join in
this request for humane treatment.
Signed: Denis J. Halliday &
Hans von Sponeck
New York/Muellheim, 27 January
2006
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