![]() In December 2004, Clive Stafford Smith prepared a 50-page brief for the defense team arguing that Saddam Hussein should be tried in the US under US criminal law. In a leaked transcript of a February 2003 meeting between Bush and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar, Bush expressed a willingness to have Saddam tried at the International Tribunal of Justice in The Hague. Towards the end of the first hearing, the deposed president refused to sign the legal document confirming his understanding of the charges. Īlthough no attorneys for Saddam were present at the 1 July hearing, his first wife, Sajida Talfah, hired a multinational legal team of attorneys, headed by Jordanian Mohammad Rashdan and including Ayesha Gaddafi ( Libya), Curtis Doebbler ( United States), Emmanuel Ludot ( France) and Marc Henzelin ( Switzerland). ![]() "This is how he was raised", said the minister. Later on 1 July, Kuwait's information minister Abul-Hassan said crude language was "expected" of Saddam. When asked by the judge to identify himself in his first appearance before an Iraqi judge (three of the five judges and the prosecutor were never identified nor photographed for security reasons), he answered, "You are an Iraqi, you know who I am." Īlso during the arraignment, Saddam defended Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait and referred to Kuwaitis as "dogs" who were trying to turn the women of Iraq into "two-penny whores", which led to an admonition from the judge for using coarse language in court. He emphatically rejected charges against him. He called the court a "play" aimed at Bush's chances of winning the US presidential elections. Alternating between listening to and gesturing at the judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin, he questioned the legitimacy of the tribunal set up to try him. The 67-year-old President, Saddam Hussein, appeared confident and defiant throughout the 46-minute hearing. SADDAM HUSSEIN CAPTURE DATE TRIALAmnesty International stated that the trial was "unfair," and Human Rights Watch judged that Saddam's execution "follows a flawed trial and marks a significant step away from the rule of law in Iraq." Several months before the trial took place, Salem Chalabi, the former head of the Iraq Special Tribunal (which was established to try Hussein), accused interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi of pushing for a hasty show trial and execution, stating: "Show trials followed by speedy executions may help the interim government politically in the short term but will be counterproductive for the development of democracy and the rule of law in Iraq in the long term." With his death, all other charges were dropped.Ĭritics viewed the trial as a show trial that did not meet international standards on the right to a fair trial. Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging on 30 December 2006. The date and place of the execution were secret until the sentence was carried out. No further appeals were taken and Saddam was ordered executed within 30 days of that date. On 26 December, Saddam's appeal was rejected and the death sentence upheld. On 5 November 2006, Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging. A second and separate trial began on 21 August 2006, trying Saddam and six co-defendants for genocide during the Anfal military campaign against the Kurds of northern Iraq. At this trial Saddam and seven other defendants were tried for crimes against humanity with regard to events that took place after a failed assassination attempt in Dujail in 1982 by members of the Islamic Dawa Party (also see human rights abuses in Iraq under Saddam Hussein). The first trial began before the Iraqi Special Tribunal on 19 October 2005. Saddam asserted in his defense that he had been unlawfully overthrown, and was still the president of Iraq. Particular attention was paid during the trial to activities in violent campaigns against the Kurds in the north during the Iran–Iraq War, against the Shiites in the south in 19 to put down revolts, and in Dujail after a failed assassination attempt against Saddam on 8 July 1982, during the Iran–Iraq War. He remained in custody by United States forces at Camp Cropper in Baghdad, along with eleven senior Ba'athist officials. ![]() ![]() The Coalition Provisional Authority voted to create the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST), consisting of five Iraqi judges, on 9 December 2003, to try Saddam Hussein and his aides for charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide dating back to the early 1980s. The trial of Saddam Hussein was the trial of the deposed President of Iraq Saddam Hussein by the Iraqi Interim Government for crimes against humanity during his time in office. Saddam Hussein found guilty of crimes against humanity and was subsequently sentenced to death he was executed on 30 December 2006. Saddam Hussein sits before an Iraqi judge ![]()
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