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16 Dec 2003, 4:30 pm
Topping the PM legal news brief this afternoon...Bush Says Saddam Should Face 'Ultimate Justice'Reuters reports: "President Bush said on Tuesday Saddam Hussein should face the ultimate penalty for his iron-fisted rule in Iraq and that Iraqis should conduct the trial. [read post]
13 Apr 2006, 5:02 am
[JURIST] Women in Iraq had better quality of life and received more respect for their rights under Saddam Hussein's regime than the current system, according to a survey conducted by the Baghdad-based Woman Freedom Organization [advocacy website]. [read post]
23 Sep 2004, 3:09 am
Salem Chalabi, former head of the Iraqi Special Tribunal set up to try Saddam Hussein, accused the Iraqi interim government Thursday of trying to manipulate the tribunal for political ends. [read post]
21 Oct 2004, 10:53 am
Lawyer Ziad Khasawneh, spokesman for the Jordanian Committee for Defending Saddam, claimed Thursday that the government of Iraq was planning to rush the trial of former dictator Saddam Hussein forward so that the US elections would draw attention away from the lack of fairness in the proceedings. [read post]
26 Dec 2005, 8:13 am
[JURIST] Following more allegations [JURIST report] Friday that Saddam Hussein has been tortured by his American captors, lawyers for the ousted ruler have asked his Baghdad court for an independent investigation. [read post]
16 Aug 2004, 5:00 am
Iyad Allawi Monday told the Iraqi Special Tribunal to speed up court proceedings against Saddam Hussein and his former aides. [read post]
14 Dec 2005, 12:35 am
[JURIST] US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice [official profile] on Tuesday accused the international community of failing to live up to its obligations to help bring Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] to justice, saying the "effective boycott of Saddam's trial is only harming the Iraqi people". [read post]
23 Dec 2005, 1:01 pm
[JURIST] Khalil Dulaimi, chief Iraqi lawyer for Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive], claimed Friday in an interview with the Associated Press that his client had been "severely tortured" by Americans during his detention, bolstering Saddam's own claims [JURIST report] dramatically made in court Wednesday. [read post]
26 Jun 2005, 4:15 pm
[JURIST] The Iraqi Special Tribunal [official website] released silent footage Sunday from a judicial interrogation last week of six of Saddam Hussein's former lieutenants concerning the killing and deportation of Shiite Kurds and the repression of a Shiite revolt in 1991 after the first Gulf War. [read post]
10 Sep 2005, 7:57 am
[JURIST] Kuwaiti Justice Minister Ahmad Baqer said Saturday that Kuwait has prepared its own indictment against former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] for crimes against the emirate during the 1990-1991 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and that that indictment "calls for Saddam's death. [read post]
7 Nov 2006, 6:06 pm
Via BBC, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said he expects Saddam Hussein to be executed by the end of the year. [read post]
7 Jan 2007, 9:31 am
[JURIST] UK Prime Minister Tony Blair [JURIST news archive], a staunch supporter of President Bush's Iraq policy, broke a week-long silence on the circumstances of the hanging of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] Sunday, saying through a spokesperson that the filmed execution which showed Hussein taunted on the gallows was "completely wrong. [read post]
13 Oct 2005, 4:14 am
[JURIST] A spokesman for the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) [official website] said Thursday that the trial of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] is still set to begin on October 19, despite concerns that the trial may be postponed. [read post]
15 Jan 2007, 11:33 pm
[JURIST] Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi said Tuesday that he was taken by surprise by the hangings [JURIST report] Monday of former Saddam Hussein-era Revolutionary Court judge Awad Hamed al-Bandar [Wikipedia profile] and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti [GlobalSecurity profile; BBC profile], sentenced to death [JURIST report] with Hussein in November in connection [read post]
5 Dec 2006, 11:28 pm
[JURIST] A US District Court judge has refused to entertain a motion to stay the execution of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] that was filed by Italian advocate Giovanni di Stefano [law firm website; Wikipedia profile], an advisor to Hussein's defense team. [read post]
22 Oct 2005, 5:12 am
[JURIST] Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Hussein Ali Kamal said Saturday that the Iraqi government will step up security measures for the 12 remaining defense lawyers representing Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] and his seven co-defendants. [read post]
13 Sep 2006, 1:15 am
[JURIST] Munqidh Al Faraun, the chief prosecutor in the Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive] requested Wednesday that presiding judge Abdullah al-Amiri remove himself from the case for reasons of bias, specifically, for allowing defense lawyers to make politically-charged statements in court. [read post]
29 Apr 2008, 1:45 pm
Aziz, deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein's regime, and his co-defendants are charged in connection with the 1992 execution of 42 merchants accused by Hussein's government of causing a sharp [read post]
14 Aug 2006, 2:46 am
[JURIST] Judge Abdullah al-Amiri, a Shiite judge, will preside over the second Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive] by the Iraqi High Tribunal, this one involving the so-called "Anfal" operation [HRW backgrounder] that killed 100,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s. [read post]
12 Jul 2007, 5:03 am
[JURIST] Ghazi al-Awadi, an Iraqi-born naturalized US citizen, pleaded guilty to spying for the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] Wednesday, admitting in Detroit federal court that he provided the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] with information about anti-Hussein organizations and individuals. [read post]
