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Ann Clwyd broke down as she spoke about the final moments of Owen Roberts, who contracted pneumonia after being admitted.[Snip] She said her husband was squashed against the side of his bed, his lips dry, and cold from a fan that had been turned on for a patient in an adjacent bay. A light had been flicked on in the four-bed ward and someone shouted out “anybody for breakfast?” just moments before he died., Ms Clwyd said. She painted a picture of nurses who treated her husband with “coldness, resentment, indifference and even contempt"

Labour MP Ann Clwyd tells of her experience of visiting Iraq in The Times"There was a machine designed for shredding plastic. Men were dropped into it and we were again made to watch. Sometimes they went in head first and died quickly. Sometimes they went in feet first and died screaming. It was horrible. I saw 30 people die like this. Their remains would be placed in plastic bags and we were told they would be used as fish food...on one occasion, I saw Qusay personally supervise these murders." This is one of the many witness statements that were taken...

She's the firebrand left-wing MP who stunned the Commons into silence when she backed Tony Blair over Iraq. Many said she saved the Prime Minister's skin. After a momentous year, Ann Clwyd talks to Kamal Ahmed Ann Clwyd was in the shower when the news started coming in from Iraq. Saddam Hussein had been captured, dead, alive, no one was quite sure. It was early on Sunday morning, 15 December. She got an excited telephone call from a friend in Iraqi Kurdistan saying, 'Have you heard, have you heard? Saddam has been found'. For Tony Blair's human rights envoy to...

Envoy MP backs Blair Clwyd was one of the few left wing MPs in favour of war Cynon Valley MP Ann Clwyd has said she shares Prime Minister Tony Blair's confidence that weapons of mass destruction will be found in Iraq. Ms Clwyd - chosen by Mr Blair as a special envoy on human rights - was speaking during a visit to a mass grave near Baghdad which held 10,000 bodies. On Sunday she spoke to BBC Radio Wales as she stood on the edge of the grave in the town of Hilla, and reaffirmed her belief that weapons would...

IN APRIL 2000, Indict, a human rights organisation founded to campaign for a UN International Criminal Tribunal for Iraq, organised a conference in Paris. It was memorable for reasons other than the quality of debate. If the revelations in British newspapers yesterday are accurate, and we believe they are, it seems that French officials colluded with Iraqi intelligence agents to frustrate our efforts in Paris. Let me briefly describe some of the events that took place on the day of our conference: Indict’s office in London received a telephone call threatening that everybody would be killed. Simultaneously, the British police...

France helped Iraq stymie opposition Documents also show link between Baghdad, bin Laden Scott Stinson National Post, with files from The Daily Telegraph Monday, April 28, 2003 CREDIT: The Associated Press Osama bin Laden in an image from an al-Jazeera broadcast. Documents discovered in Iraq's destroyed foreign ministry headquarters show France helped Baghdad try to stifle a Paris human rights conference, the second major find in recent days as journalists sift through the rubble of Saddam Hussein's regime. Several papers suggest the French government aided Iraqi officials who arrived in Paris in February, 1998, to prevent a meeting of Indict,...

France colluded with the Iraqi secret service to undermine a Paris conference held by the prominent human rights group Indict, according to documents found in the foreign ministry in Baghdad. Various documents state that the Iraqis believed the French were doing their utmost to prevent the meeting from going ahead. Ann Clwyd, the Labour MP who chairs Indict, said last night that she would be demanding an apology from the French government for its behaviour, which she described as "atrocious". The files, retrieved from the looted and burned foreign ministry by The Telegraph last week, detail the warmth and strength...