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Saddam Hussein appeared in court Wednesday, despite an earlier vow not to attend future proceedings in his genocide trial, and looked on as presiding Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa called a final witness for the...

A US District Court judge has refused to entertain a motion to stay the execution of Saddam Hussein that was filed by Italian advocate Giovanni di Stefano , an advisor to Hussein's...

In a letter to the chief judge presiding over his genocide trial, Saddam Hussein has said he would not attend further proceedings because he "wasn't given the chance to speak when I tried to clarify...

Case n° 1/9 First/2005, Al-Dujail Lawsuit, Iraqi High Tribunal, November 5, 2006, as translated into English and made available December 3, 2006. Read the full text of the judgment translated into English in six parts via Grotian Moment, the Saddam...

Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa, who is overseeing the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein , on Monday agreed to a prosecution request to conclude the witness phase of the trial, and adjourned until Wednesday with just one prosecution...

The defense team for Saddam Hussein Sunday formally appealed his death sentence for crimes against humanity committed in the town of Dujail in 1982. The November 5 condemnation to death by hanging was automatically...

Saddam Hussein on Thursday rejected forensic evidence of mass graves presented by US experts in his genocide trial for the "Anfal" campaigns against ethnic Kurds in northern Iraq between 1987 and...

A judge in the Saddam Hussein trial ejected a defense lawyer from the courtroom Wednesday and ordered a day-long detention after the lawyer repeatedly addressed a prosecutor as "brother." Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa had previously warned...

Saddam Hussein sought to bar testimony of an American forensic scientist during proceedings at his genocide trial Tuesday, demanding a neutral witness from a country that was not involved in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The...

A group of United Nations human rights experts on Tuesday urged the Iraqi government to refrain from carrying out the death sentence imposed on Saddam Hussein earlier this month for crimes against humanity [charging...