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12 Apr 2006, 4:28 am
[JURIST] Iraqi High Criminal Court chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman [BBC profile], who is presiding over the trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive], said Wednesday that Hussein and one of his co-defendants, Hussein's half-brother and former Baath official Barzan Ibrahim [Trial Watch profile], have refused to submit handwriting samples to the court so they could be [read post]
11 Apr 2006, 1:04 am
[JURIST] Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer [official website] on Tuesday denied that he received or read [PDF transcript] several cables which were sent by diplomats and trade officials to warn the Australian government that the country's leading wheat exporter was paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's former regime [JURIST report] under the UN's now-defunct oil-for-food program [JURIST [read post]
6 Apr 2006, 2:16 am
[JURIST] The Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive] continued Thursday in Baghdad with testimony from Awad al-Bandar [Wikipedia profile], the head of the Revolutionary Court who sentenced 148 Shiites to death in 1984 [execution order]. [read post]
5 Apr 2006, 1:26 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] on Wednesday defended his signing of a 1984 execution order [text] as prosecutors began their cross examination of the former dictator before the Iraqi High Criminal Court [official website; JURIST news archive] at the resumption of his trial [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
4 Apr 2006, 12:43 am
[JURIST] The Iraqi High Criminal Court [official website; JURIST news archive] announced Tuesday that new genocide and crimes against humanity charges have been filed against Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] and six others in his former regime's crackdown against the Kurds during the 1980s. [read post]
29 Mar 2006, 12:14 pm
[JURIST] A female Saudi lawyer, Reem al-Habib, received preliminary approval on Wednesday to join the team of lawyers defending Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
20 Mar 2006, 2:40 am
[JURIST] Libyan leader Colonel Muhamar Gaddafi [BBC profile] has declared that Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] remains the legal leader of Iraq, citing the US-led invasion of the country as "a war waged against the wishes of the United Nations. [read post]
18 Mar 2006, 7:31 am
An elite special forces unit formerly known as Task Force 121 and now known as Task Force 6-26 converted one of Saddam Hussein's former military bases near the Baghdad International Airport into a secret detention center and used one of Hussein's torture chambers as [read post]
18 Mar 2006, 7:05 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein has rejected a suggestion from his lawyers to transfer his trial [JURIST news archive] out of Iraq, claiming "I was born in Iraq and I want to die there," according to Jordanian lawyer Salah al-Armuti in an interview with the Al-Sharqu Al-Awsat newspaper. [read post]
15 Mar 2006, 1:25 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein formally testified in his own defense for the first time Wednesday at his trial [JURIST news archive] in Iraq, calling the Iraqi High Criminal Court a "comedy" before the hearing was closed to the public. [read post]
14 Mar 2006, 10:13 pm
Aziz is currently being held by US forces in Baghdad pending possible trial by the Iraqi High Criminal Court now trying Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants. [read post]
14 Mar 2006, 7:59 am
[JURIST] The European Court of Human Rights [official website] on Tuesday denied the admissibility [decision text] of a lawsuit brought by Saddam Hussein against 21 European countries on the grounds that the case fell outside its jurisdiction. [read post]
13 Mar 2006, 12:34 am
[JURIST] A former Iraqi judge on trial with Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] testified Monday in Baghdad that he sentenced 148 Shiites to death after a 1982 assassination attempt on the former dictator in the town of Dujail, but asserted that they were given a proper trial beforehand. [read post]
12 Mar 2006, 1:15 am
[JURIST] The Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive] resumed in Baghdad Sunday without any disruptions as three co-defendants took the stand to testify about the killings of 142 Shiites in the Iraqi town of Dujail after a failed 1982 attempt on Hussein's life. [read post]
9 Mar 2006, 4:30 am
The prison, a torture center under the regime of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] that again became notorious for abuses during the US occupation, is expected to close within [read post]
28 Feb 2006, 10:31 am
[JURIST] The trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] resumed in Baghdad Tuesday with prosecutors at the Iraqi High Criminal Court - formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal [official website] - continuing to present their case on charges of murder, torture, forced expulsions and illegal imprisonment stemming from a crackdown on villagers in Dujail [JURIST report] following [read post]
27 Feb 2006, 8:16 pm
[JURIST] A defense lawyer for ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] said Monday that the Iraqi members of the defense team will attend the next session of the trial set to resume on Tuesday. [read post]
27 Feb 2006, 8:19 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] has ended a hunger strike to protest his trial after fasting for 11 days, according to his chief lawyer Monday. [read post]
26 Feb 2006, 4:20 pm
[JURIST] Khalil Dulaimi [JURIST news archive], chief defense lawyer for ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive], told Reuters Sunday he met with his client for seven hours and discussed a possible end to the defense boycott of the trial. [read post]
24 Feb 2006, 10:04 am
[JURIST] The United States and British governments knew about illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq over four years ago, an Australian judicial inquiry [JURIST report] into the UN oil-for-food program [JURIST news archive] was told Friday. [read post]
