A lawyer working on the defence team of a co-defendant in the trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was kidnapped late Thursday in Baghdad, Iraqi security sources said.
Saadoun Janabi was abducted by armed men just a day after the former dictator's trial for a 1982 massacre of Shia in the town of Dujail got underway in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, the sources said.
Janabi is an attorney for Awad Hamad Al-Bandar Al-Sadun, one of Saddam's seven co-defendants in the case.
Al-Sadun is a former chief judge of the revolutionary court and deputy head of Saddam's office.
He sat next to Saddam in the front row when the trial opened Wednesday. If found guilty, Saddam and his co-defendants could be executed. All said they were innocent.
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