Court hears Saddam's cousin ordered 200 executions
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Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majeed ordered guards to execute a group of 200 people as he stamped out a Shi'ite uprising in 1991, a court trying him for crimes against humanity heard on Monday.
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An Iraq court on Sunday sentenced three firmer aides to Saddam Hussein, inlcuding the man known as "Chemical Ali" to death by hanging for their role in a 1980s genocide campaign that that killed up to 100,000 Kurds.
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War crimes trials against Saddam  Hussein and his closest lieutenants moved forward on Saturday  when his feared cousin known as "Chemical Ali" was the first to  face a formal interview with the chief investigating  magistrate.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 4 -- An Iraqi appeals court on Tuesday upheld death sentences for Ali Hassan Majeed, or "Chemical Ali," and two other lieutenants of Saddam Hussein who were convicted of crimes against humanity for their roles in a massacre of Kurds, a judge said.
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By Gareth Morgan  The execution of Saddam Hussein's cousin, known as "Chemical Ali", could lead to an upsurge in sectarian violence in Iraq, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell warned yesterday.
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Iraqi prosecutors asked a judge on   Monday to sentence Saddam Hussein to death for his role in the   killings of 148 villagers after a 1982 assassination attempt in   the village of Dujail.
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Saddam Hussein's lawyers on Sunday formally appealed the death sentence handed down the ousted Iraqi president for the killing of 148 Shiites, a court spokesman said.
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Saddam Hussein's sons and grandson have been reburied near the ousted Iraqi leader's grave, relatives say.
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Police say the brother-in-law and nephew of the new judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial have been shot dead in Baghdad.
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Â· Doctor accused of ordering killings during civil war  Â· Three others also face extradition from UK
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A Kurdish villager testified Monday that he left behind his mother and two sisters as he fled a 1988 attack by Saddam Hussein's forces. Years later, he said, he found his relatives' identity cards in a mass grave.
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A Kurdish man told a court trying   Saddam Hussein for genocide he found the remains of his mother   and two sisters in a mass grave more than 200 km (124 miles)   from their village, which he said was razed by Saddam's troops.
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Three members of the former Iraqi regime under Saddam Hussein -- including the man known as "Chemical Ali" -- will be executed within 30 days, senior appellate Judge Munir Haddad said Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD: War crimes trials against Saddam Hussein and his closest lieutenants moved forward yesterday when his feared cousin known as &quot;Chemical Ali&quot; was the first to face a formal interview with the chief investigating magistrate.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 19 -- The trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, in which he was sentenced this month to death by hanging, was marred by flaws so serious that they undermined the trial's fairness and called into question the verdict, an international human rights watchdog group said in a...
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Jassim al-Kinani, a 34-year-old car mechanic, did all he could to follow Shiite Muslim traditions when his brother and three cousins were slain. But like so much in Iraq, the rituals of death have been knocked awry by violence.
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NAJAF, Iraq, Aug 27  - Iraqi police said Friday they found &quot;many&quot; bodies of dead civilians and police, including some who were executed and mutilated, at a religious court set up by rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr in Najaf.