Former US AG Clark calls Saddam trial threat to international law, human rights
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...
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...
Saddam signature on Dujail documents confirmed by prosecution experts
Raouf Abdel-Rahman , the chief judge in the Saddam Hussein trial , read out a report by prosecution experts as the trial resumed Wednesday that authenticated the former leader's signature on several more documents submitted into...
Handwriting experts testify that Saddam signed Dujail execution order
In a report read in court as the Saddam Hussein trial resumed in Baghdad Monday, handwriting experts testified that some of the signatures on documents connected with the execution of 148 Shiite villagers belonged to Hussein....
Saddam refuses to provide handwriting sample that could prove execution order
Iraqi High Criminal Court chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman , who is presiding over the trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein , said Wednesday that Hussein and one of his co-defendants, Hussein's half-brother and former Baath...
The Iraqi High Criminal Court announced Tuesday that new genocide and crimes against humanity charges have been filed against Saddam Hussein and six others in his former regime's crackdown against the...
Milosevic farewell draws tens of thousands in Belgrade before hometown burial
Over 50,000 mourners gathered in front of the parliament building in Belgrade Saturday to mourn the death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic , who last week was found dead in his prison cell at...
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...
Michael J. Kelly : "Each new session of the Iraqi High Criminal Court, convened last year to try Saddam Hussein and his henchmen for the massacre of over a hundred Shi'a at Dujail in 1982, brings...
Saddam Hussein condemned "Iranian meddling" in Iraq after being briefed on major Iraqi, Arab and international affairs over the weekend, his defense team said Monday. Defense lawyer Saleh al-Armuti said Hussein had complained of not being...
