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US transfers 26 Saddam-era officials to Iraqi custody

July 14, 2010 04:32:02 PM

Iraq's justice minister announced Wednesday that 26 former officials in the government of Saddam Hussein have been transferred from US to Iraqi custody as US troops prepare to withdraw from the country next month. The prisoners,...

January 17, 2010 03:28:00 PM

Former Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz has suffered a severe stroke while in detention, his son Ziad Aziz said Sunday. Aziz, who also suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, was taken to...

December 14, 2009 04:03:00 PM

Saddam Hussein's former lawyer on Saturday asked the British attorney general for consent to prosecute former prime minister Tony Blair for violations of the Geneva Conventions . Giovanni di Stefano, who represents former Iraqi...

August 3, 2009 09:10:00 AM

An Iraqi court on Sunday convicted Ali Hassan al-Majid and former foreign minister and deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz of forcing the Kurdish population to be displaced from the...

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A serendipity of justice in Iraq

March 12, 2009 05:35:00 PM

Chibli Mallat : "Yesterday we encountered a strange moment of serendipity. Dr. Lateef Rashid, invited those of us working on the Global Justice Project: Iraq to dinner...

March 11, 2009 11:41:00 AM

The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majid and former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz Wednesday to 15 years in prison, respectively, for their...

March 3, 2009 07:03:00 AM

The Supreme Iraq Criminal Tribunal convicted Ali Hassan al-Majid Monday of murder and sentenced him to a third death sentence, while acquitting former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz [BBC profile;...

December 29, 2008 09:09:00 AM

The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal on Sunday commenced a new trial of two Saddam-era officials, including senior figures of Hussein's government, for their alleged involvement in the execution of thousands of political opponents during Husseins rule....

November 24, 2008 12:47:00 PM

An Iraqi court on Sunday began a new trial for 16 former Saddam Hussein-era officials, including Hussein cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid - better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali" - and former...

May 20, 2008 02:46:00 PM

The trial of former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and seven co-defendants resumed Tuesday, three weeks after a brief opening session and subsequent adjournment at the Iraqi High Tribunal ...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

UK parliament rejected J.S. Mill's proposal to give women the vote

On May 20, 1867, the British Parliament rejected by 196-73 an amendment to the 1867 Reform Act presented by John Stuart Mill that would have permitted women to vote. Review Mill's 1869 work The Subjection of Women.

Supreme Court applies Free Exercise Clause to state governments

On May 20, 1940, the United States Supreme Court held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment applied to state governments in Cantwell v. Connecticut under the incorporation doctrine, which applied the protections of the Bill of Rights to state governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Learn more about the Incorporation Doctrine from the Cornell Law Schools' Legal Information Institute.