Red Cross refuses to meet Saddam's lawyer

The Red Cross has cancelled a meeting with a French lawyer who wanted the agency to check whether former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was on hunger strike.

Red Cross refuses to meet Saddam's lawyer
Wed, 15 Dec, 2004 - 10:50

The Red Cross has cancelled a meeting with a French lawyer who wanted the agency to check whether former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was on hunger strike.

Florian Westphal, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said lawyer Emmanuel Ludot would not be coming to the ICRC headquarters in Geneva today as announced.

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