BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein told his trial on Wednesday he was beaten in U.S. custody and, in an extraordinary outburst towards the end of the hearing, also said those who had tortured Iraqis should be punished for their crimes.
The former Iraqi president spent most of the session sitting quietly in the defendants' dock as prosecution witnesses told the court of the beatings and abuse they and other former detainees say they suffered in Saddam's jails.
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