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7 Nov 2006, 2:29 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] was back in court Tuesday as the genocide trial against him resumed for the alleged killing of 100,000 Kurds in the late 1980s during the so-called "Anfal" campaign [HRW backgrounder]. [read post]
19 Jun 2006, 2:07 am
[JURIST] The prosecution in the Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive] presented closing arguments Monday, calling for the death penalty for Hussein, his half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court Awad Hamed al-Bander, and former senior regime member Taha Yassin Ramadan. [read post]
3 May 2005, 2:40 am
[JURIST] Ziad al-Khasawneh [Atlantic profile], the Jordanian head of Saddam Hussein's legal defense team, claimed Monday that Iranian-backed Iraqi politicians are plotting to assassinate Hussein in prison. [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]
25 Oct 2005, 4:40 pm
[JURIST] A group of former international political leaders supporting the defense of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] called Tuesday for a UN investigation into last week's kidnapping and murder of Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi [JURIST report], a lawyer representing one of Hussein's co-defendants. [read post]
20 Oct 2005, 8:22 am
[JURIST] Sky News is reporting that Saadoun Janabi, a member of the legal defense team for Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive], has been kidnapped in Baghdad. 4:07 PM ET - Reuters is now reporting the kidnapping victim, also identified by police as Saadoun Dulaimi, is actually a defense lawyer for former Iraqi judge Awad al-Bander, who is one of Hussein's co-defendants. [read post]
12 Oct 2005, 6:21 am
[JURIST] US officials outlined procedures for the upcoming trial of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] in a special background briefing at the State Department Tuesday. [read post]
11 Oct 2006, 5:07 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] returned to court Wednesday and questioned the chief judge presiding over his genocide trial [BBC timeline] as to why he has not been allowed to speak and defend himself during prior court sessions, saying it was a judge's "duty" to listen. [read post]
16 Oct 2006, 1:50 am
[JURIST] The Iraqi High Tribunal [JURIST news archive] convened briefly Monday and announced that the next hearing on the crimes against humanity charges [JURIST report] brought against Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] will be on November 5, though the court refused to say whether a verdict will be handed down during the hearing. [read post]
28 Dec 2006, 8:09 pm
Arab TV reports Saddam Hussein was executed ten minutes ago. [read post]
25 Jun 2006, 10:53 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] knows that a death sentence awaits him at the end of his trial {JURIST news archive] before the Iraqi High Tribunal for alleged crimes against humanity, but his lawyer says Hussein believes the US will use his sentence as leverage to persuade him to end the Sunni insurgency and to "save it from its mess" in Iraq, the New York Times reported Sunday. [read post]
15 Dec 2003, 12:58 pm
In the latest op-ed in JURIST's Forum series, Northwestern University law professor and former war crimes defense counsel Anthony D'Amato looks ahead to the possible trial of captured Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein before the [read post]
29 Jan 2004, 3:59 pm
AP: "Oil bribes to foreign officials and businesses were 'standard practices' under Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraq's foreign minister said Thursday. [read post]
28 Sep 2006, 4:06 pm
[JURIST] Lawyers for Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] called for an end to Saddam's genocide trial [JURIST news archive] in a statement issued Thursday, rejecting the proceeding as nothing more than a "farce" used to "offend the dignity of president Saddam and his comrades. [read post]
15 Jun 2004, 9:28 am
Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has said that the US will hand over Saddam Hussein and other high-profile detainees "within the next two weeks. [read post]
12 Sep 2005, 12:08 am
[JURIST] Lawyers for former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] will argue that he has been denied due process of law when his trial begins next month [JURIST report] on charges stemming from the killings of 143 Shiite residents of the town of Dujail [JURIST report; NPR report]. [read post]
10 Feb 2006, 8:26 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] defense lawyer and former head of the Jordanian Lawyers Association Saleh al-Armouti said Friday that Hussein has claimed that the United States had offered him life in exile "like Napoleon" if he would use his influence to end the Iraq insurgency. [read post]
6 Dec 2005, 4:10 am
[JURIST] As the fourth session of the Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive] came to a close Tuesday, Hussein shouted at the judges that he would not return to an 'unjust court' when the Iraqi Special Tribunal [official website] reconvenes Wednesday. [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]
11 Feb 2007, 6:18 pm
Refused Classification reports that on Friday the Classification Board banned the mobile phone footage of Saddam Hussein's hanging. [read post]
