The son of a prominent official in the regime of the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein launched an appeal to Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi to rescue his father - who is currently in detention - and send him to the hospital because he had fainted days ago.
Bassem Gel Latif Nassif Jassem, a member of the Revolutionary Command Council and Minister of Culture during Saddam's era, said - through his Facebook account - addressing Al-Kazemi that he had not appealed to anyone for the past 18 years but God, but his father's current health condition cannot be arrogant in front of him.
Jassim added, "We hope to send my father to a hospital specialized in neurological and cardiac diseases, because he had several strokes, and he is now at this hour unconscious in his prison, unable to speak and move for four days, and he has suffered during the past two years from recurring clots, knowing that he is 82 years old."
Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, I swear, we have not appealed to anyone for the past eighteen years except God, but my father’s health condition…
Posted by Bassem Latif Nassif Jassim on Tuesday, 24 August 2021
Six hours after the appeal, the son of the leader in the former Iraqi regime returned and published a post on his Facebook account, in which he thanked Al-Kazemi for his response to the appeal, and directed to check on his father's health.
Latif Nassif Jassem held the position of Director of Radio and Television in Iraq in 1974, and also held several ministerial positions such as agriculture, culture and media, in addition to being a member of the Revolutionary Command Council.
And the United States included his name on the list of the most wanted elements of the Iraqi regime in sequence 18, and he was arrested in 2003 after the American invasion of Iraq, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009.