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22 Feb, 2007 2:01 pm
[JURIST] A spokesperson for the US Army Criminal Investigation Command [official website] said Wednesday that it had found "insufficient evidence" to support allegations by former Iraqi
Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan [Trial Watch profile;
JURIST news archive] that he was tortured by US personnel following his arrest in 2003 after he reportedly refused to reveal certain information. Ramadan is
16 Mar, 2007 3:35 pm
... and close associate of Saddam Hussein during the Baath Party reign there, Taha Yassin
Ramadan, lost a plea to the Supreme Court on Friday for a delay in his transfer to the new Iraqi ... , turned over to U.S. forces in Iraq and
held by them since, Ramadan has been sentenced to death by hanging for his alleged role in atrocities during the ... the stay motion to the
full Court, which denied it without comment (application 06A894, Ramadan v. Bush). A U.S. District Judge in Washington, Paul L. Friedman, ...
25 Jan, 2007 7:58 am
[JURIST] Sentencing proceedings in the case against Saddam Hussein-era Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan [Trial Watch profile] were postponed until February 12 Thursday after lawyers for the survivors of
Ramadan's crimes failed to show up in court. The lawyers had not been given notice to appear. Ramadan
is expected to receive a death sentence [JURIST report]. Ramadan was convicted [
22 Jan, 2007 3:31 pm
[JURIST] A lawyer for Saddam-era Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan [Trial Watch profile] has filed an appeal [DOC text] with the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) [official website] arguing that the Tribunal's Appeals Chamber
was not authorized to effectively direct its trial court to deliver a death penalty for Ramadan after originally according him a life sentence.
Ramadan was convicted [JURIST
14 Mar, 2007 3:10 am
[JURIST] Defense lawyers for former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan [Trial Watch profile; JURIST news archive] have filed an appeal [DOC text; addendum, DOC] with the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) [official website],
asking the court to overturn Ramadan's death sentence [JURIST report]. Ramadan was convicted [JURIST
report; BBC verdict summary] by the IHT alongside Saddam Hussein in November
24 Apr, 2006 2:40 pm
[JURIST] Iraqi prosecutors Monday played in court a taped phone conversation allegedly between Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] and co-defendant Taha Yassin Ramadan [Trial Watch profile], a former vice president, where
the two discussed the situation in Dujail. The voice attributed to Ramadan reported the destruction of farmland and palm groves in the village
where the former leaders are
27 Feb, 2007 9:13 pm
[JURIST] The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled [PDF order] Tuesday that it has no jurisdiction to block the Iraqi death sentence for former Iraqi
Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan [Trial Watch profile;
JURIST news archive]. Ramadan was convicted [JURIST report; BBC verdict summary] by the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) [official website] in
November and
17 Jan, 2007 6:49 am
[JURIST] Former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan
[Trial Watch profile] will be sentenced to death at a hearing before the Iraqi High Tribunal [official website] now scheduled for January 25, according to a court spokesperson speaking
to the press on Tuesday. Ramadan was convicted [JURIST report; BBC verdict summary] in November in connection with crimes against humanity
committed in the
12 Feb, 2007 12:55 am
[JURIST] The Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) [official website; HRW backgrounder] sentenced former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan [Trial Watch profile; JURIST news archive] to death by hanging Monday in connection with crimes
against humanity committed in the town of Dujail in 1982. Three other defendants in the case were sentenced to 15 years in prison; one was acquitted. Ramadan's case will
19 Mar, 2007 8:05 am
[JURIST] Former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan
[Trial Watch profile; JURIST news archive] will be hanged Tuesday, according to Iraqi legal sources quoted by wire services Monday afternoon. The Iraqi government has scheduled the
execution despite defense lawyers' contention that the government must wait at least 30 days after sentencing to execute a defendant. Ramadan,
found guilty [
15 Mar, 2007 8:44 am
[JURIST] The appeals chamber of the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) [official website] on Thursday upheld the death penalty for former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan [Trial Watch profile; JURIST news archive], rejecting
his appeal [DOC text; JURIST report] of the sentence handed down in the Saddam Hussein Dujail crimes against humanity trial. Ramadan was
convicted [JURIST report; BBC verdict
20 Mar, 2007 2:00 am
Death penalty: Always unjust. All execution is brutal and unjust. This morning, Saddam Hussein's former vice president -- Taha Yassin Ramadan -- was hanged even though his trial court ordered a life sentence. However, the appellate judges who
reviewed the case ordered a resentencing, saying the original sentence was too lenient. That's right, the United States has been sacrificing the lives and health of ...
19 Mar, 2007 10:00 pm
Death penalty: Always unjust. All execution is brutal and unjust. This morning, Saddam Hussein's former vice president -- Taha Yassin Ramadan -- was hanged even though his trial court ordered a life sentence. However, the appellate judges who
reviewed the case ordered a resentencing, saying the original sentence was too lenient. That's right, the United States has been sacrificing the lives and health of ...
25 Jun, 2007 10:15 pm
... method, with three high-level Hussein officials having received death sentences recently. Last January, Hussein's half brother was decapitated when hanged. Last March, Saddam
Hussein's former vice president -- Taha Yassin Ramadan --
was hanged even though his trial court ordered a life sentence. The appellate judges who reviewed the case ordered a resentencing, saying the original sentence was too lenient, and he
was swiftly hanged thereafter. Iraq ...
13 Dec, 2004 8:43 am
[JURIST] A US Army spokesman said Monday that eight former top aides to Saddam Huseein were taking meals again after having conducted a hunger strike over the weekend. AFP quotes a
lawyer for former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan
as saying that "My client, who I met for the first time on Saturday, told me that the (detainees) had begun a hunger strike the day before in order to have the
28 Feb, 2005 11:53 am
[JURIST] The Iraqi Special Tribunal [governing statute] has finished preliminary investigations into some of the crimes allegedly committed by Saddam Hussein's top aides and announced
Monday that the first group of five will be sent to trial. The five include Hussein's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Hassan al-Tikriti [Trialwatch.org profile], former vice president
Taha Yassin Ramadan [CBS
28 Nov, 2005 7:04 am
[JURIST] The trial of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] resumed Monday, but was quickly adjourned until December 5 to allow two of Hussein's co-defendants, including former Vice
President Taha Yassin Ramadan, to find replacements for
members of the defense team killed [JURIST report] since the last trial session on October 19 [JURIST report]. Defense lawyers had threatened to boycott the
27 Jul, 2006 9:12 am
[JURIST] Chief Judge Raouf Abdel Rahman [BBC profile] on Thursday ordered proceedings in the Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive] adjourned until October 16, when a verdict
against the ousted Iraqi president is expected to be announced. Hussein was not in court Thursday, but his former Vice President Taha
Yassin Ramadan [Wikipedia profile] and Awad Hamed al-Bandar [Wikipedia profile],
13 Nov, 2005 3:01 am
[JURIST] A spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari [Wikipedia profile] has claimed that agents supporting Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] murdered two defense lawyers
involved in the trial [JURIST news archive] of the former Iraqi president and eight co-defendants in a bid to derail the proceeding. Adel Muhammad Abbas, a lawyer for Taha Yassin Ramadan [Wikipedia profile], was
17 May, 2006 3:06 am
[JURIST] Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman [BBC profile] ruled Wednesday that Saddam Hussein will be permitted to testify [AP report] on behalf of a co-defendant when his trial [JURIST news
archive] before the Iraqi High Criminal Court resumes on Monday. Abdel-Rahman said that defense lawyers can ask Hussein questions about the involvement of Taha Yassin Ramadan [Trial Watch profile] in the deaths of nine
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