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11 Jun 2006, 4:35 am
Maliki promised that 2,500 prisoners held in US detention facilities and Iraqi custody would be released if the detainees "are not Saddam Hussein loyalists or terrorists or anyone who has Iraqi blood on their hands. [read post]
7 Jun 2006, 3:56 am
[JURIST] American jurists control the court trying Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] by directing the judge and controlling meetings between the defense team and Hussein, one of Hussein's lawyers said Tuesday. [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]
30 May 2006, 9:15 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] complained Tuesday that chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman [BBC profile] of the Iraqi High Criminal Court is not giving the defense in Hussein's trial [JURIST news archive] the same consideration the prosecution was given while presenting its case. [read post]
29 May 2006, 9:01 am
[JURIST] The defense team for Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] on Monday called several witnesses to testify on behalf of Awad al-Bandar [Wikipedia profile], head of the court responsible for sentencing 148 Shiites to death [execution order] after a 1982 assassination attempt against the former Iraqi leader in the town of Dujail [JURIST report]. [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]
25 May 2006, 9:22 am
[JURIST] A judge from the Iraqi town that is the focus of the ongoing Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive] was abducted by gunmen Wednesday. [read post]
24 May 2006, 12:00 pm
[JURIST] The Iraqi government announced Wednesday that it had apprehended Saddam Hussein nephew Bashar Sabawi Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti with the assistance of Lebanese police. [read post]
24 May 2006, 8:13 am
[JURIST] Tariq Aziz [BBC profile], the former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister under Saddam Hussein's regime, testified on behalf of Hussein Wednesday at the Iraqi High Criminal Court [official website], where Hussein and seven co-defendants are on trial [JURIST news archive] for the crackdown against Shiites in Dujail following an assassination attempt in 1982, including the execution of 148 [read post]
22 May 2006, 12:48 pm
[JURIST] Bushra Khalil, a defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive], said Monday that she believes Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman [BBC profile], the Kurdish judge presiding over Hussein's trial [JURIST news archive], is harsher on her than other lawyers because she is a Shiite. [read post]
22 May 2006, 1:17 am
[JURIST] Raouf Abdel-Rahman [BBC profile], the judge presiding over the Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive], on Monday threw defense lawyer Bushra Khalil [JURIST report] out of the courtroom for apparently arguing with the chief judge. [read post]
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. [read post]
16 May 2006, 3:56 am
[JURIST] Defense witnesses began testifying Tuesday in the trial of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive], following Monday's reading of formal charges [JURIST report] against the deposed Iraqi leader and seven co-defendants for murder, torture, and the illegal arrests of 399 people in Dujail as part of a crackdown in the town after an assassination attempt on Hussein's life. [read post]
15 May 2006, 1:26 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] was formally charged Monday with murder, torture and illegally arresting 399 people in Dujail as part of a crackdown in the town after an assassination attempt on Hussein's life. [read post]
10 May 2006, 2:36 am
[JURIST] Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark [JURIST news archive], now serving as a defense lawyer for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive], called the trial of the former Iraqi leader "a direct threat to international law, the United Nations, universal human rights and world peace" on Tuesday before demanding that the Iraqi Special Tribunal [official website] transfer [read post]
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. [read post]
19 Apr 2006, 1:12 am
[JURIST] Raouf Abdel-Rahman [BBC profile], the chief judge in the Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive], read out a report by prosecution experts as the trial resumed Wednesday that authenticated the former leader's signature on several more documents submitted into evidence [trial exhibits]. [read post]
17 Apr 2006, 2:00 am
[JURIST] In a report read in court as the Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive] resumed in Baghdad Monday, handwriting experts testified that some of the signatures on documents connected with the execution of 148 Shiite villagers belonged to Hussein. [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]
13 Apr 2006, 4:11 am
[JURIST] Australian Prime Minister John Howard [official profile] testified [transcript, PDF] Thursday before a government commission and said that he had not seen several cables [press conference, text] sent to his office which were meant to warn the Australian government that the country's leading wheat exporter was paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's former regime [JURIST report] between 1997 [read post]
