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Former US AG Clark calls Saddam trial threat to international law, human rights

May 10, 2006 09:36:00 AM

Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark , now serving as a defense lawyer for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein , called the trial of the former Iraqi leader "a direct threat to international law, the...

April 24, 2006 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler, an American member of Saddam Hussein's legal defense team and a professor of law at An-Najah National University on the Palestinian West Bank, says that Hussein's trial is unfair and orchestrated by the United...

March 18, 2006 03:05:00 PM

Saddam Hussein has rejected a suggestion from his lawyers to transfer his trial out of Iraq, claiming "I was born in Iraq and I want to die there," according to Jordanian lawyer Salah al-Armuti in an...

March 13, 2006 08:34:00 AM

A former Iraqi judge on trial with Saddam Hussein testified Monday in Baghdad that he sentenced 148 Shiites to death after a 1982 assassination attempt on the former dictator in the town of Dujail, but asserted...

March 12, 2006 09:15:00 AM

The Saddam Hussein trial resumed in Baghdad Sunday without any disruptions as three co-defendants took the stand to testify about the killings of 142 Shiites in the Iraqi town of Dujail after a failed 1982 attempt...

March 11, 2006 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that what is most important about the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in the wake of his sudden death in jail is not its lack of outcome, but rather...

March 1, 2006 08:51:00 AM

Saddam Hussein admitted in court Wednesday that he had ordered the trial of a group of Shiites who were executed under his regime in the 1980s and that he had ordered that their land be confiscated,...

February 28, 2006 10:31:00 AM

The trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein resumed in Baghdad Tuesday with prosecutors at the Iraqi High Criminal Court - formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal - continuing to present their case on charges...

February 27, 2006 08:16:00 PM

A defense lawyer for ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein said Monday that the Iraqi members of the defense team will attend the next session of the trial set to resume on Tuesday. Earlier this month Hussein,...

February 27, 2006 08:19:00 AM

Saddam Hussein has ended a hunger strike to protest his trial after fasting for 11 days, according to his chief lawyer Monday. Khalil Dulaimi met with his client for several hours ...

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