Dr. Hazem al‑Ani

From the news reports:

Both Sunni and Shia trusted him and were his patients. If they had no money, he would treat them free of charge. Educated at the Iraqi College of Medicine, Dr Hazem al-Ani was appointed assistant professor at the college on graduation but objected to the Baathist control of the university and was jailed in the Abu Ghraib prison for three years before being ordered to the Iran-Iraq war front as a military doctor in 1982. "He never talked about his suffering," Hashem says. ...

Dr al-Ani left a wife, a son called Soheil and three daughters - Maryam, Sara and Dua'a ...

My brother treated both Sunni and Shia and he was a good man. ...

Dr al-Ani was a fluent English speaker who would, so the neighbours told us, open his clinic at his home at any hour of the day or night.

IND 27 Mar 2004