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Saddam VP trial unfair: UN rights expert

February 14, 2007 01:51:00 PM

The trial of Saddam-era Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was flawed and he should not be executed, a UN Human Rights expert said Wednesday. Phillip Alston , appointed [UN...

January 5, 2007 08:30:00 AM

President Bush told reporters at the White House Thursday that last weekend's videoed hanging of Saddam Hussein amidst taunts from guards and witnesses fell short of what he would have liked, but nonetheless insisted on the legitimacy of the...

January 5, 2007 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Chibli Mallat, visiting professor at Princeton University and a Middle East human rights lawyer who in 2003 turned down an invitation to join what became the Iraqi High Tribunal which eventually tried Saddam Hussein and sentenced him...

January 4, 2007 09:12:00 AM

The executions of two Saddam Hussein co-defendants, former chief judge of Iraq's Hussein-era Revolutionary Court Awad Hamed al-Bandar and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al Tikriti , have been postponed....

January 3, 2007 03:47:00 PM

Lawyers representing Awad Hamed al-Bandar , former chief judge of Iraq's Saddam Hussein-era Revolutionary Court, and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al Tikriti Wednesday mounted last-minute legal challenges to prevent their clients' executions, currently expected...

January 3, 2007 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, former Chief Prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, says that the execution of Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity brought to a close a watershed year...

December 29, 2006 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that the trial of Saddam Hussein for genocide of the Kurds should continue posthumously, notwithstanding his execution for crimes against humanity in Dujail... The execution of Saddam Hussein...

December 18, 2006 08:33:00 AM

Saddam Hussein's genocide trial resumed Monday at the Iraqi High Tribunal in Baghdad with the prosecution presenting documentary evidence they say links Hussein to chemical weapons used during the 1987-88 "Anfal" campaigns [HRW...

November 13, 2006 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Special Guest Columnist John Pace, former Human Rights Chief for the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq, says that the trial of Saddam Hussein has abjectly failed to do justice to his victims, provide a deterrent to future dictators, or...

November 9, 2006 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Giovanni Di Stefano, an Italian lawyer who has represented Saddam Hussein and former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, says that the recent trial of Hussein and seven co-defendants for crimes against humanity in Dujail is...

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