Saddam ‘on hunger strike over unfair trial’

SADDAM Hussein and three former officials in his regime yesterday told the court handling their trial that they were on a hunger strike in protest at the judge overseeing the proceedings.

Saddam said he had not eaten in three days, while his former intelligence chief, Ibrahim Barzan, said he had been on strike for two days.

Their claims of a hunger strike could not be independently confirmed. The defendants are being held in US detention, and American officials could not immediately be reached to comment.