Rumsfeld sued over wrong detention

Cyrus Kar, 45, filed his suit in a Los Angeles federal court on Friday, alleging that his imprisonment violated his civil rights, international law, the Geneva Convention and fundamental principles of the due process of law.

The suit is the first civil action challenging the constitutionality of the detention and hearing policies of the US government in Iraq.

Kar, a US citizen and navy veteran, went to Iraq 14 months ago to make a documentary film about Cyrus the Great -- the Persian king who issued the world's first human rights charter.