Leading Shiite cleric denies opposing law reinstating Iraq Baathists
Iraqi Shiite religious leader Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani said Tuesday he in fact did not oppose a proposed law which would return former Baath party members to their previously held government...
Leading Shiite cleric rejects Iraqi draft law reinstating Baath party members
Iraqi Shiite religious leader Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani Sunday rejected a proposed law which would return former Baath party members to their previously held government positions, according to Ahmed Chalabi [BBC profile; JURIST news...
Iraq government introducing bill to reinstate Baath party members
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani announced plans Tuesday to present new legislation to the Iraqi National Assembly in upcoming weeks that would allow most...
Former Baathist military operations officer Rashid Hussein Mohammed claimed during his genocide trial before the Iraqi High Tribunal Thursday that he was just defending his country against Iran during the Anfal campaign of the...
Iraqi PM backtracks on Baathists ban as part of reconciliation effort
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki opened a national reconciliation conference in Baghdad Saturday by signaling a reversal of the ban on former Baath Party members in the Iraqi government that has applied since the days of the...
Raed Juhi , the Iraqi judge who presided over the investigative stage of the legal proceedings against ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein , said Saturday he was stepping down from that position after the other judges...
Iraqi president assails ISG proposals as undermining sovereignty, constitution
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani slammed the Baker Iraq Study Group report during a Sunday news interview, says it contained "some very dangerous articles which undermine the sovereignty of Iraq...
Saddam genocide trial prosecutor says tapes prove guilt for gas attacks
The chief prosecutor in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial said Sunday that audio tapes and documentation proving that Hussein personally ordered the 1988 gassing of Kurdish villagers will be submitted to the court hearing his case. Munqith...
Iraqi panel proposing rehabilitation of former Baath party officials
The Iraqi government's DeBaathification Commission plans to submit a proposal to Iraq's parliament that would allow most members of Saddam Hussein's now-defunct Baath Party to be reinstated to public life, the commission's executive director said...
JURIST Guest Columnist Chibli Mallat, visiting professor at Princeton University and a prominent Middle East human rights lawyer who in 2003 turned down an invitation to join the Iraqi Special Tribunal that would judge Saddam Hussein, says that even given...
