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# Saddam TV-tortured
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/19372/
- Published: 2005-04-07T22:04:05.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:33:07.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:15

In an innovative form of punishment, Saddam Hussein's jailkeepers [specifically asked](http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06175035.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net) to have a colour TV placed in his cell so he could watch a video recording of the election of the [new Iraqi president](http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/06/iraq.main/?ref=opendemocracy.net).