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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]
24 Dec 2004, 10:29 am
[JURIST] Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's former deputy prime minister and foreign minister, has denied that Iraq used the UN oil-for-food program to extort billions of dollars according to lawyer Badih Aref, speaking Friday for Aziz after having been allowed to meet him for the first time Thursday in Baghdad. [read post]
21 Dec 2004, 10:44 am
[JURIST] The Iraqi Special Tribunal charged with trying Saddam Hussein and other members of his regime with crimes against humanity responded to recent criticisms about the transparaeny of its process Tuesday by issuing a statement proclaiming its commitment to fairness: "The Iraqi special tribunal wants to ensure that it is an Iraqi independent court and that it has its integrity, neutrality and [read post]
21 Dec 2004, 10:14 am
[JURIST] The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Monday overturned a lower federal court ruling and reinstated indictments against seven people from Los Angeles accused of providing "material support" to a group defined as a "terrorist organization" by the State Department which was involved in activities supported by the Saddam Hussein in Iraq. [read post]
20 Dec 2004, 2:11 pm
[JURIST] Defense lawyers for Saddam Hussein are preparing legal challenges to his upcoming war crimes trial to be filed in US courts, according to leaked memos. [read post]
20 Dec 2004, 9:59 am
[JURIST] Lawyers representing former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, now held by the US in Iraq and expected to be tried for war crimes, have relayed a message from him calling on Iraqis to unite. [read post]
18 Dec 2004, 2:43 pm
[JURIST] Iraqi judges Saturday began investigative pre-trial hearings for Sultan Hashim Ahmad, Saddam Hussein's last defense chief, and Ali Hassan al-Majid (Chemical Ali), another former defense minister. [read post]
17 Dec 2004, 12:03 pm
[JURIST] An Iraqi official said Friday that former Saddam Hussein Defense Minister, Gen. [read post]
16 Dec 2004, 10:20 am
[JURIST] Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, now held by the US for over a year at a facility outside Baghdad and due to be tried for war crimes, had his first meeting with members of his Jordanian-based legal defense team Thursday. [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]
14 Dec 2004, 7:35 am
Iraq Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said Monday while on a visit to the Vatican that Saddam Hussein himself would go on trial for crimes against humanity after Iraq's elections at the end of January. [read post]
12 Dec 2004, 8:21 pm
[JURIST] Several of Saddam Hussein's old lieutenants, including former deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz, have gone on a hunger strike on the eve of the one-year anniversary of Saddam's capture by US forces to protest their "illegal detention" and their lack of access to defense counsel, according to Aziz attorney Aref Badia. [read post]
8 Dec 2004, 1:08 pm
[JURIST] The chief of Saddam Hussein's defense team claimed Wednesday that the former Iraqi dictator's first meeting with a defense lawyer had been canceled after American authorities exerted pressure on the Iraqi Special Tribunal set up to try him and other members of his regime. [read post]
7 Dec 2004, 9:21 am
[JURIST] Dutch authorities announced Monday that they have arrested a man on the FBI's "Most Wanted" list (see this listing from 2000) for supplying lethal chemicals to Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the 1980s. [read post]
23 Nov 2004, 10:05 am
[JURIST] Iraq's Interim Defense Minister Hazim Shaalan told Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Tuesday that Saddam Hussein will go on trial for crimes against humanity before the end of the year. [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]
22 Oct 2004, 8:25 pm
A UN spokesman said Friday that the United Nations is not likely to lend personnel or other support to the Iraqi Special Tribunal set up to try Saddam Hussein and other members of his regime. [read post]
21 Oct 2004, 10:53 am
Lawyer Ziad Khasawneh, spokesman for the Jordanian Committee for Defending Saddam, claimed Thursday that the government of Iraq was planning to rush the trial of former dictator Saddam Hussein forward so that the US elections would draw attention away from the lack of fairness in the proceedings. [read post]
14 Oct 2004, 2:43 am
US investigators preparing for war crimes trials against Saddam Hussein and his former aides have discovered a mass grave site in Hatra, which is thought to contain bodies of several thousand Kurds in nine separate trenches. [read post]
7 Oct 2004, 8:26 am
French officials Thursday denied taking oil voucher bribes from Saddam Hussein in return for help in lifting UN sanctions on Thursday, and Russian officials offered no direct comment in response to similar allegations against them made in Wednesday's Iraq Survey Group (ISG) report. [read post]
