Saddam appeals controversial Iraqi death sentence
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Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and two former aides sentenced to death lodged appeals on Sunday, the Iraqi chief prosecutor said, following a trial slammed by some human rights experts as unfair and flawed.
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Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein appears in court as his trial over the genocide of Kurds resumes.
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MOSCOW, Nov 15 (IPS) - Russian politicians and Muslim leaders here have  thrown their weight against the death sentence handed down early  this month to Saddam Hussein, and suggest that an independent,  international tribunal be set up to retry the former Iraqi  president.
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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appealed to Iraqis from his prison cell to unite against what he called US efforts to sow sectarian divisions, his lawyers say.
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Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi urged an Iraqi court Monday to speed up proceedings against toppled leader Saddam Hussein and his close aides.
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Ethiopia is to lodge an appeal for former leader Mengistu Haile Mariam's life sentence to be changed to execution.
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The UN human rights chief urges an Iraqi court not to condemn one of Saddam Hussein's deputies to death.
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An Iraqi court upholds the death sentence against Saddam's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as Chemical Ali.
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The family of a British engineer facing execution in Iraq at the hands of Islamic extremists awaited news of his fate as Iraqis distributed pamphlets in Baghdad containing a heart-rending plea from them for information.
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The trial and possible execution of Saddam Hussein would discourage the die-hard remnants of the old Ba&#39;athist regime and &quot;show Iraq and those beyond Iraq that tyranny will not win&quot;, Iyad
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CAIRO, Egypt - Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said in an interview published Monday that a "depressed and broken in spirit" Saddam Hussein had appealed to him for mercy, saying his regime had meant no harm during the years it was in power.    Allawi also told the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper that he's been the target of four assassination attempts since becoming leader of Iraq - the most recent just five days ago - but he insisted his homeland's chaos would be controlled...
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Britain&#39;s ambassador to Iraq, Edward Chaplin, has appealed via a video telecast on Arabic TV for the body of beheaded UK hostage Ken Bigley.
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Ex-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein appears in court as his genocide trial over the killing of Kurds resumes.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 23 -- A British hostage threatened with death by a militant Islamic group appealed to  Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday to save his life by ordering the release of all women held in Iraqi prisons.
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TIKRIT, Iraq  - Black-painted graffiti lauding Saddam Hussein appeared overnight in his home town and small groups of mourners turned out at his grave on Sunday, the first anniversary of the former Iraqi leader's execution.
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Britain&#39;s ambassador to Iraq has made a televised appeal to Iraqis for help in finding the body of engineer Kenneth Bigley, beheaded by his kidnappers this month.
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An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced two former high-ranking members of Saddam Hussein's regime to death for their role in a genocidal campaign against Iraq's ethnic Kurds that killed tens of thousands in the 1980s.