Paris ? Europe’s human rights court on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit filed by Saddam Hussein against 21 European countries whose troops joined the U.S.-led military campaign in Iraq, saying the case fell outside its jurisdiction.

Saddam said his arrest, detention and subsequent handover to the Iraqi authorities and the ongoing trial in Baghdad breached the European Convention on Human Rights.

The former Iraqi president said coalition forces had violated his right to life, liberty and security, and several other articles of Europe’s human rights convention.

The European Court of Human Rights, which deals with human rights violations on the territory of the 46 member states of the Council of Europe, said Saddam’s suit did not fall within the jurisdiction of any of the 21 nations cited.