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28 Nov 2005, 7:04 am
[JURIST] The trial of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] resumed Monday, but was quickly adjourned until December 5 to allow two of Hussein's co-defendants, including former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, to find replacements for members of the defense team killed [JURIST report] since the last trial session on October 19 [JURIST report]. [read post]
27 Nov 2005, 4:12 pm
[JURIST] In a bid to appeal to Sunni voters, former Iraqi interim prime minister Iyad Allawi [JURIST news archive; Iraqi National accord party website, in Arabic], a Shiite, said in an interview with the UK's Observer newspaper Sunday that human rights abuses by Iraqi Shiites are as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein's regime. [read post]
27 Nov 2005, 12:59 pm
[JURIST] Lawyers for Saddam Hussein, reinforced by the late addition of Johnson-era US attorney general Ramsey Clark [Wikipedia profile] and former Qatari justice minister Najib al-Nuaimi, said Sunday that they would ask for another adjournment of the ousted Iraqi dictator's trial [JURIST news archive] when the proceeding resumes in a fortified Baghdad courtroom Monday. [read post]
25 Nov 2005, 12:33 pm
[JURIST] The ailing former senior Iraqi intelligence officer who in late October became the first witness to testify [JURIST report] in the trial of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has died, the chief prosecutor of the case before the Iraqi High Criminal Court (formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal [official website]) said Friday. [read post]
24 Nov 2005, 11:30 am
[JURIST] Defense lawyers in the Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive] announced Thursday that they will attend the next session of the trial scheduled for November 28 despite the recent assassination of two of their colleagues. [read post]
21 Nov 2005, 12:53 pm
[JURIST] In an interview with Reuters reported Monday, Chief Justice Rizgar Mohammed Amin of the Iraqi High Criminal Court [official website], also known as the Iraqi Special Tribunal, trying Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] and his co-defendants played down security concerns despite the assassination of two defense lawyers [JURIST report], the flight of another out of the country [JURIST [read post]
21 Nov 2005, 8:07 am
[JURIST] Frans van Anraat [BBC profile], a Dutch businessman accused of supplying chemical agents to Iraq with the knowledge that Saddam Hussein would use them for poison gas attacks, went on trial Monday in the Netherlands on charges of complicity in war crimes and genocide [JURIST report]. [read post]
20 Nov 2005, 8:47 am
[JURIST] Lawyers for Saddam Hussein said Sunday they are willing to attend the next trial hearing sxheduled for November 28 if proper protection is provided for the entire defense team. [read post]
18 Nov 2005, 5:29 am
[JURIST] Iraqi Special Tribunal [official website] officials Thursday denied reports that Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] was attacked and punched several times [BBC report] by two court clerks after he insulted two Shiite saints during an interrogation session. [read post]
18 Nov 2005, 2:12 am
Merimee received the money by way of oil allocations from Saddam Hussein's government that could be sold for profit; he is thought to be the first high-level official [read post]
17 Nov 2005, 12:30 am
[JURIST] A UN human rights official has called for an investigation into the killings of two defense lawyers representing co-defendants of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
14 Nov 2005, 7:16 am
[JURIST] Lawyer Thamer Hamoud al-Khuzaie, who represents two of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants, has fled Iraq and is seeking asylum in Qatar following an attempt on his life. [read post]
13 Nov 2005, 3:01 am
[JURIST] A spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari [Wikipedia profile] has claimed that agents supporting Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] murdered two defense lawyers involved in the trial [JURIST news archive] of the former Iraqi president and eight co-defendants in a bid to derail the proceeding. [read post]
10 Nov 2005, 6:18 am
[JURIST] An Iraqi government spokesman said Thursday that the Iraqi Special Tribunal [official website] can appoint new defense lawyers in the cases of former dictator Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] and his aides if the current lawyers fail to appear for the next hearing. [read post]
9 Nov 2005, 6:22 am
[JURIST] Defense lawyers in the trial of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] on Wednesday officially severed contact with the Iraqi Special Tribunal [official website] in response to the Tuesday murder of defense team member Adil al-Zubeidi [BBC report; TIME interview]. [read post]
8 Nov 2005, 12:05 am
[JURIST] AP is reporting that a lawyer for a co-defendant of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] has been assassinated in Baghdad. [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 Oct 2005, 10:37 am
[JURIST] Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein accepted a last minute offer of exile from Arab leaders in 2003 just before the US-led invasion of Iraq, according to an Al Arabiya television [media website] documentary. [read post]
28 Oct 2005, 1:00 pm
[JURIST] George Galloway, a member of the British Parliament, allegedly received an allocation for 18 million barrels of oil from Saddam Hussein through the UN oil-for-food program [official website; JURIST news archive] in exchange for assistance in getting UN sanctions lifted against the former regime, according to the last report [text] released [JURIST report] Thursday by the UN's Independent [read post]
28 Oct 2005, 11:33 am
[JURIST] The defense team for Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] renewed its call for a change of venue [JURIST report] for his trial on Friday, this time asking UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan [official profile] to put pressure on the US and Iraqi government to move the trial to The Hague. [read post]
