Saddam Hussein22 May 2003
Resolution 1483 calls upon the states of the United Nations to support actions that facilitate the prosecution of the members of Saddam Husseins regime responsible for crimes and atrocities
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Resolution 1483 calls upon the states of the United Nations to support actions that facilitate the prosecution of the members of Saddam Husseins regime responsible for crimes and atrocities
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
Legal custody of Saddam Hussein passes to the Iraqi interim Government but physical custody remains in American military hands
Saddam Hussein is arraigned before an Iraqi judge on seven preliminary charges
Saddam appears confident and defiant throughout the 46-minute hearing. Alternating between listening to and gesturing at the judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin, he questioned the legitimacy of the tribunal set up to try him. He called the court a "play" aimed at Bushs chances of winning the US presidential elections
Saddam appears confident and defiant throughout the 46-minute hearing. Alternating between listening to and gesturing at the judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin, he questioned the legitimacy of the tribunal set up to try him. He called the court a "play" aimed at Bushs chances of winning the US presidential elections
Formal charges are filed against Saddam Hussein and other co-defendants in connection with Government atrocities committed in the al-Dujail region against the people of al-Dujail
Saddam is charged by the Special Tribunal with the first of an expected series of charges, relating to the mass killings of the inhabitants of the village of Dujail in 1982 after a failed assassination attempt against him
Particular attention was paid during the trial to activities in violent campaigns against the Kurds in the north during the Iran mins Iraq War, against the Shiites in the south in 1991 and 1999 to put down revolts, and in Dujail after a failed assassination
Saddam asserted in his defense that he had been unlawfully overthrown, and was still the president of Iraq. 1st day of the trial
The first trial began before the Iraqi Special Tribunal on 19 October 2005. Remained in custody by United States forces at Camp Cropper in Baghdad, along with eleven senior Baathist officials.
attempt on 8 July 1982, during the Iran mins Iraq War.
He added, "Neither do I recognize the body that has designated and authorized you, nor the aggression because all that has been built on false basis is false."
He rejected the tribunal's legitimacy and independence from the control of the foreign occupation. "I do not respond to this so-called court, with all due respect to its people, and I retain my constitutional right as the president of Iraq", Saddam declared.
Iraqi authorities put Saddam and seven other former Iraqi officials on trial on 19 October 2005, four days after the 15 October 2005 referendum on the new Iraq constitution.
The tribunal specifically charged the defendants with the killing of 148 Shiites from Dujail, in retaliation for the failed assassination attempt of 8 July 1982. As in his pre-trial appearance, at the opening of the 19 October Trial Saddam appeared defiant.
Chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Mussawi delivers the final arguments for the prosecution, calling for Saddam Hussein, his half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti & former Vice President, Taha Yassin Ramadan, to be sentenced to death
Chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Mussawi delivers the final arguments for the prosecution, calling for Saddam Hussein, his half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti & former Vice President, Taha Yassin Ramadan, to be sentenced to death
Saddam Hussein announces a boycott of the trial, saying it makes a mockery of international and Iraqi law and is driven by "malicious" US aims
A second and separate trial begins on 21 August 2006, trying Saddam and six co-defendants for genocide during the Anfal military campaign against the Kurds of northern Iraq
Former chief Judge of Revolutionary Court charged with involvement in the Dujail killings found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging
Saddam Hussein is found guilty of crimes against humanity for the killing of 148 Shias in Tigris river city of Dujail in 1982, sentenced to death by hanging
Iraqi vice-president until 2003, charged with involvement in the Dujail killings, found guilty and sentenced to life in prison
Saddam Husseins half-brother, head of the intelligence service charged with involvement in the Dujail killings found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging
Three Iraqi army officials, including Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein who was known as "Chemical Ali, are convicted and sentenced to death for carrying out the murder of about 50,000 Kurds in 1988-what was called the Anfal campaign
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