§ Mr. DalyellTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give the name of the 16 year-old Iraqi youth, imprisoned since the age of five years for throwing a stone at a picture of Saddam Hussein, to whom he has referred in public statements. [69786]
§ Mr. Fatchett[holding answer 8 February 1999]: My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary never purported to know the boy by name. He received an account, in good faith, of this episode. On the basis of what he already knew of Saddam Hussein's regime he found it convincing and in character. I refer my hon. Friend to the report of September 1998 of the UN Special Rapporteur on Iraq, Mr. Max Van Der Stoel, a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House.