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19 Dec 2005, 12:38 pm
[JURIST] At least 24 former officials from the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] have been released from jail, an Iraqi lawyer said Monday. [read post]
27 Feb 2005, 11:26 am
[JURIST] Iraqi security forces say they have arrested Saddam Hussein's half-brother [AP report], the first top-level Baathist to be caught in a year. [read post]
3 Jan 2007, 2:43 am
[JURIST] Two of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants also sentenced to death [JURIST report; BBC verdict summary] in the Dujail trial [JURIST news archive] will be executed Thursday, according to an Iraqi government official. [read post]
12 Jul 2006, 12:40 pm
[JURIST] The US military revealed Wednesday that Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] and three of his co-defendants are five days into a hunger strike in protest of trial court procedures and the killings of three of their defense lawyers, which they believe occurred because of inadequate security provided by US forces. [read post]
21 Nov 2005, 12:53 pm
[JURIST] In an interview with Reuters reported Monday, Chief Justice Rizgar Mohammed Amin of the Iraqi High Criminal Court [official website], also known as the Iraqi Special Tribunal, trying Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] and his co-defendants played down security concerns despite the assassination of two defense lawyers [JURIST report], the flight of another out of the country [JURIST [read post]
7 Nov 2006, 7:16 am
[JURIST] Lawyers in Jordan held a one-hour strike Tuesday to protest the death sentences [JURIST report; BBC Q/A] imposed over the weekend against Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants in the Dujail crimes against humanity case [JURIST news archive; BBC trial timeline]. [read post]
23 Feb 2006, 8:21 pm
[JURIST] Lawyers defending former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive], on trial before the Iraqi High Criminal Court, have filed a formal motion [DOC] seeking the disqualification of chief judge Rauf Abdel-Rahman [BBC profile]. [read post]
20 Dec 2004, 9:59 am
[JURIST] Lawyers representing former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, now held by the US in Iraq and expected to be tried for war crimes, have relayed a message from him calling on Iraqis to unite. [read post]
6 Nov 2006, 5:33 am
[JURIST] Several more European leaders voiced concern Monday over the death sentence [JURIST report; BBC Q/A] handed down over the weekend for Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants in the Dujail crimes against humanity case [JURIST news archive; BBC trial timeline]. [read post]
27 Dec 2006, 12:47 pm
[JURIST] Iraqi judges and lawyers Wednesday mulled over a potential constitutional complication in the wake of Tuesday's Iraqi High Tribunal [official website] appeals chamber affirmation of a death sentence [JURIST report] against ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] for crimes against humanity committed in the town of Dujail in 1982. [read post]
19 Oct 2005, 12:45 am
[JURIST] An argumentative Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] pleaded not guilty Wednesday as he and seven co-defendants from the defunct Baath Party [Wikipedia backgrounder] went on trial before the Iraqi Special Tribunal [official website], also known as the Iraqi High Criminal Court. [read post]
23 Jun 2005, 11:42 am
[JURIST] Iraqi deputy prime minister Ahmad Chalabi [Wikipedia profile; JURIST news archive] said on Thursday that the trial of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] will begin within 90 days, before the end of September 2005. [read post]
28 May 2006, 2:48 pm
[JURIST] Iran has delivered a "bill of indictment" against former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, which will submit it to Iraq's High Criminal Court, according to a joint statement [text] issued Saturday by the governments of Iran and Iraq on the visit of Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki to Baghdad. [read post]
8 Nov 2006, 12:26 am
[JURIST] Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki [BBC profile] told the BBC Wednesday that he expects Saddam Hussein to be executed before the end of the year [BBC interview], pending the conclusion of the appeal process. [read post]
21 Aug 2005, 8:34 am
[JURIST] In a letter written by Saddam Hussein to a Jordanian and delivered through the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross the former Iraqi president, facing trial this fall and possible execution, says that he will be "sacrificed for our precious Palestine and our beloved, patient and suffering Iraq. [read post]
9 Feb 2005, 6:14 am
[JURIST] The Iraqi Special Tribunal [tribunal statute] will begin holding trials of some of the top lieutenants of Saddam Hussein's regime "in weeks," according to a Western legal expert involved in the process speaking in Baghdad on Wednesday. [read post]
7 Dec 2005, 5:47 am
[JURIST] Iraqi Special Tribunal [official website] Chief Justice Rizgar Mohammed Amin on Wednesday adjourned proceedings in the Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive] until December 21 in order to avoid holding hearings during the upcoming parliamentary elections. [read post]
20 Apr 2004, 6:01 pm
A spokesman for the Iraqi Governing Council announced Tuesday that eight judges and four prosecutors have been named to the Iraqi Special Tribunal for Crimes Against Humanity set up by statute late last year to try Saddam Hussein and other high Iraqi officials accused of crimes against the Iraqi people. [read post]
6 Dec 2006, 1:20 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] appeared in court Wednesday, despite an earlier vow not to attend [JURIST report] future proceedings in his genocide trial, and looked on as presiding Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa called a final witness for the prosecution. [read post]
12 Feb 2006, 11:20 pm
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] returned to court in Baghdad Monday, though he claimed in several outbursts that his appearance was forced. [read post]
