Ramsey Clark, ex-US justice official and Saddam Hussein's lawyer, dies at 93


Well known US advocate for human rights Ramsay Clark filed the first school desegregation and helped to draft the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1968. He died at home in New York City, New York, USA, on April 9. – EPA pic, April 11, 2021.


RAMSAY Clark, who promoted civil rights as America’s top law enforcement official in the 1960s but later helped defend Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic in court, has died at 93.

The often controversial liberal figure and former attorney-general died April 9 at his home in New York City, a niece, Sharon Welch, told US media. No cause of death was given.


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