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7 Nov 2006, 8:02 am
Amnesty International deplores the decision to impose the death sentence on Saddam Hussein and two of his seven co-accused after a trial which was deeply flawed and unfair. [read post]
11 May 2005, 6:01 am
[JURIST] Kuwaiti prosecutors announced Wednesday that they will shortly be handing over to the Iraqi Special Tribunal [governing statute] a list of crimes committed by Saddam Hussein, whose forces invaded and occupied the country in 1990-1, precipitating the Gulf War. [read post]
28 Nov 2005, 12:02 pm
[JURIST] Iraqi President Jalal Talabani [BBC profile] has dismissed as "nonsense" allegations [Observer report] by former Iraqi Prime Minister and current parliamentary candidate Iyad Allawi that human rights abuses by Iraqi Shiites [JURIST report] are as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein's regime. [read post]
16 Dec 2006, 8:27 pm
[JURIST] Raed Juhi [WP profile], the Iraqi judge who presided over the investigative stage of the legal proceedings against ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive], said Saturday he was stepping down from that position after the other judges of the Iraqi High Tribunal [official website] chose another judge of that court to succeed him. [read post]
9 Dec 2006, 3:49 am
[JURIST] Hundreds of people have lobbied Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office for the position of hangman for Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] if he is actually executed, according to the New York Times Saturday. [read post]
31 May 2006, 8:03 am
[JURIST] Defense lawyers in the Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive] on Wednesday accused a prosecution witness of perjury and urged chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman [BBC profile] to stop proceedings at the Iraqi High Criminal Court to investigate the credibility of all the prosecution witnesses. [read post]
26 Dec 2006, 10:18 am
[JURIST] The appeals chamber of the Iraqi High Tribunal [official website] has affirmed Saddam Hussein's death sentence [JURIST report] for crimes against humanity committed in the Iraqi town of Dujail [JURIST news archive; BBC trial timeline] in 1982. [read post]
7 Nov 2005, 9:55 am
[JURIST] The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] said Monday that ICC rules prevent the court from asserting any jurisdiction over claims against Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
29 Dec 2004, 10:23 am
[JURIST] Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, now a maverick war crimes lawyer and an outspoken critic of American foreign policy on Iraq who held office in the 1960s under President Lyndon Johnson, has joined the legal team defending Saddam Hussein. [read post]
14 Nov 2007, 4:39 am
FBI Special Agent George Piro spent 7 hours a day for 8 months with Saddam Hussein after his capture. [read post]
15 Jan 2007, 3:16 am
CNN is reporting that Saddam Hussein's half-brother, Barzan Hassan, the former chief of Hussein's secret police, and Awad Bandar, the chief judge under his Baath Party regime, were executed early Monday. [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 6:28 am
Here's what Chuck Hagel and Joe Biden said in 2002: Although no one doubts our forces will prevail over Saddam Hussein's, key regional leaders confirm what the Foreign Relations Committee emphasized in its Iraq hearings last summer: The most challenging phase will likely be the day after -- or, more accurately, the decade after -- Saddam Hussein. [read post]
4 Aug 2009, 10:15 am
Timothy Williams reports on the Iraqi government's move to impose new censorship laws that strongly resemble those in place under Saddam Hussein. [read post]
27 Mar 2008, 11:48 am
WELL, IT'S A GOOD THING: Jim McDermott: "We Don't Mind Being Used" by Saddam Hussein. [read post]
27 Jun 2005, 4:39 pm
[JURIST] Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdulmahdi told local leaders in the southern Iraqi province of Nassriya on Monday that some countries are pressing for a delay in the trial of Saddam Hussein. [read post]
9 Dec 2005, 8:07 am
[JURIST] Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark [JURIST news archive], currently a defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive], Friday accused witnesses of false testimony, claiming they had read their testimonies from pre-written statements. [read post]
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. [read post]
15 Dec 2004, 9:38 am
[JURIST] Iraq's Defense Minister said Wednesday that Ali Hassan al-Majid, known in the West as "Chemical Ali" for his alleged responsibility for gassing Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s, will be the first of Saddam Hussein's top aides to go on trial, possibly as early as next week and certainly by January. [read post]
26 Jun 2006, 12:33 pm
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Leandro Despouy has called for the Iraqi government to begin an independent investigation [press release] into the murder of Khamis al-Obeidi [JURIST report], a lawyer representing Saddam Hussein in his crimes against humanity trial [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 2:01 am
[JURIST]Ali Hassan al-Majid [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali", denied involvement in the killing of Shi'ite civilians at a demonstration during the reign of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. [read post]
