Posted on 04/17/2006 12:18:51 AM PDT by HAL9000
Resumption of the lawsuit of Saddam Hussein
BAGHDAD - the lawsuit of persons in charge for Ancien Régime Iraqi judged for the massacre of villager Shiites at the beginning of the years 1980 took again Monday in Baghdad in the presence of the eight marked ones, of which deposed president Saddam Hussein, according to a journalist of AFP.
The audience started with the rejection of a request of the defense, formulated by Khalil Al-Doulaïmi, the lawyer of Saddam Hussein, to challenge the judge chairing the debates, the Kurd Raouf Rachid Abdel Rahmane.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein and seven co-accused returned to court on Monday to face charges of crimes against humanity, a Reuters witness said.The chief judge rejected defense accusations that he was biased.
Saddam and his co-defendants are charged with the killing of 148 Shi'ite men and teenagers after an attempt on his life in the town of Dujail in 1982.
He could soon face another trial on charges of genocide against the Kurds in the late 1980s.
What happened? Did they adjourn for the day already?
No. I hear it going on on Arabic radio live right now.
The lawsuit of Saddam Hussein deferred at April 19
BAGHDAD - the lawsuit of Saddam Hussein and her co-defendants, judged in the business of the massacre of villager Shiites, was deferred at April 19, the end of a held audience Monday, announced the High Iraqi penal court.
Judge Raouf Rachid Abdel Rahamane justified his decision by the need for giving time to the experts charged to authenticate the signatures of the defendants to finish their work.
Defense disputed a report/ratio of experts authenticating the signatures of the former president and of his half-brother Barzan Al-Tikriti on documents relating to the massacre of the villagers Shiites of Doujaïl (northern).
"We dispute this report/ratio on the bottom and on the form and we claim neutral experts and not civils servant related to the ministry for the Interior", declared Khalil Al-Doulaïmi, lawyer of the deposed president.
"We want experts of foreign countries, except for Iran, because this country is hostile to the Arabs", it added.
Is that web based radio? I was looking for a satellite feed but haven't found one yet.
That would explain it...
I'm in Iraq and I can hear it coming from a nearby office.
They frequently run it on Sky News here with an English translation, but they're not doing that today for some reason.
The radio is back to playing normal stuff now. We were hearing the courtroom noises on there before lunch.
I think Arabiya and Jazeera have been covering it on the delay. I'll check them Wednesday.
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