Iraqi security official says televised Saddam trial to start before constitution poll News
Iraqi security official says televised Saddam trial to start before constitution poll

[JURIST] Iraqi National Security Adviser Muwafaq al-Rubie said Saturday that the trial of former President Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] will take place before the currently-scheduled October 15 referendum on the new Iraqi constitution [JURIST news archive], and that the trial will be broadcast live on television. Hussein will appear before the Iraqi Special Tribunal [official website, English version] on charges likely related to the mass murder of Shias after the 1991 Gulf War, the "ethnic cleansing" of northern Kurds in 1998 and the invasion of Kuwait. Aljazeera has more.

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South Africa becomes first country on continent to legalize same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriages became legal in South Africa on November 30, 2006 as the country's Civil Union Act, 2006 went into effect, making South Africa the only country on the African continent to legalize same-sex marriage. Read the Civil Union Act, 2006.