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2 Feb 2008, 8:54 am
[JURIST] Iraqi President Jalal Talabani [BBC profile] said Saturday that he supports a proposed law that would allow most members of Saddam Hussein's defunct Baath Party [BBC backgrounder] to return to their old positions in government. [read post]
19 Mar 2003, 3:31 pm
[JURIST] White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer commented on the President's legal case for war against Iraq at a press briefing Wednesday afternoon: He believes, number one, based on the reviews conducted by the attorneys, that there already exists a legal basis both in international law, as well as in domestic law, for the use of force to disarm Saddam Hussein. [read post]
14 Feb 2005, 12:47 am
Annan made the statement in an interview on a BBC morning program during which he was questioned about concessions made to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the Oil-for-Food program [official website]. [read post]
13 Jan 2006, 3:05 am
Aziz was once the spokesman for the Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] government [read post]
14 Nov 2004, 11:39 pm
The US Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will hold a 12 PM ET hearing on Saddam Hussein's abuse of the UN Oil-for-Food program. [read post]
30 May 2005, 11:11 am
The Sunni Muslims [Wikipedia backgrounder] lost power after Saddam Hussein's downfall, allowing Iraq [read post]
19 Aug 2005, 6:38 am
[JURIST] Grundfos [corporate website], a Danish company that produces industrial pumps, admitted Friday that two employees paid kickbacks to authorities in Saddam Hussein's government under the UN oil-for-food program [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
23 Aug 2007, 3:21 pm
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein's cousin and former Iraqi defense minister Ali Hassan al-Majid [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], also known as Chemical Ali, personally killed at least 15 men suspected of participating in a Shi'a uprising [HRW backgrounder] in southern Iraq following the 1991 Persian Gulf War, according to testimony offered Thursday in the crimes against humanity trial [JURIST report] [read post]
24 Dec 2005, 5:32 pm
[JURIST] An Iraqi court ruled Saturday that some 100 as-yet-publicly-unspecified candidates - most believed to be Sunnis - who ran in the December 15 Iraqi parliamentary elections will be struck and not allowed to serve in the next national assembly due to previous associations with Saddam Hussein's now-defunct Baath Party [BBC backgrounder]. [read post]
2 Dec 2008, 12:13 am
[JURIST] The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal [governing statute, PDF] on Tuesday sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majid [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali," to death for his involvement in the repression of Shiites in southern Iraq during the regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. [read post]
7 Feb 2010, 11:38 am
[JURIST] The Iraqi appeals panel that had ruled last week that 500 mostly Sunni politicians accused of ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party [BBC backgrounder] could stand in the coming elections reversed its decision Sunday. [read post]
20 Aug 2005, 9:16 am
The US-led occupation placed a moratorium on capital punishment after removing former dictator Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] in 2003; after [read post]
3 May 2007, 8:17 am
[JURIST] The US Commission on International Religious Freedom [official website] Wednesday released [press release] its annual report on worldwide religious freedom [PDF], finding for the first time since the ouster of Saddam Hussein that freedom of religious worship in Iraq is under severe threat. [read post]
18 Mar 2004, 9:16 am
In testimony Thursday before a House subcommittee, the General Accounting Office estimated that in the years prior to its overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime raised more than $10.1 billion illegally through unauthorized oil sales, surcharges and kickbacks. [read post]
19 Jun 2005, 8:47 am
[JURIST] Ali Hassan al-Majid, otherwise known in Western media as "Chemical Ali" [BBC profile], was questioned Thursday by an Iraqi tribunal preparing for the trials of the leaders of Saddam Hussein's regime. [read post]
23 Dec 2006, 11:51 am
[JURIST] Several Iraqi citizens sued a leading European bank and Australia's wheat exporting agency in New York federal court Friday for corporate misconduct facilitating the corruption of the Iraq Oil-for-Food program [JURIST news archive] which bilked Iraqis out of humanitarian aid while simultaneously enriching the Saddam Hussein regime. [read post]
27 Mar 2007, 12:56 pm
[JURIST] Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki [BBC profile] and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani [official website, in Arabic; BBC profile] announced plans Tuesday to present new legislation to the Iraqi National Assembly [official website] in upcoming weeks that would allow most members of Saddam Hussein's now-defunct Baath Party [BBC backgrounder] to be reinstated to public life. [read post]
5 Mar 2007, 5:17 am
[JURIST] Former Saddam-era deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], brought before the Iraqi High Tribunal [official website] Monday to testify against six defendants accused of genocide in the Anfal trial [JURIST news archive; BBC trial timeline], instead denied that Hussein's government had ever carried out any such attacks. [read post]
18 Mar 2005, 6:10 am
[JURIST] Businessman Frans van Anraat has been formally charged by Dutch prosecutors with complicity in genocide for selling chemicals to Iraq that were used to produce poison gas by Saddam Hussein's government against Kurds. [read post]
9 Aug 2004, 2:12 am
Following up on a story first reported yesterday on JURIST's Paper Chase, Salem Chalabi, head of the Iraqi Special Tribunal slated to try former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity has been charged in the June murder of Haithem Fadhil, director-general of the finance ministry. [read post]
