UK troops probed over Iraq abuse allegations

The prosecutor of the world's first permanent war crimes court will review a dossier containing allegations of human rights abuses by British troops in Iraq, the court said yesterday.

Members of the Athens Bar Association have called on International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo to investigate 22 alleged incidents involving British forces in the war, the court said.

The Greek lawyers handed a dossier containing 74 press reports and 13 videotapes of news reports from the war in Iraq to the prosecutor.

A British Foreign Ministry spokesman said London was aware of the reports but had "nothing to add by way of comment, except to say the British Government has acted in accordance with international law throughout the conflict".

About 500 complaints from 66 countries have been received since the global court came into force in July 2002.

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