Saddam appeals Iraqi death sentence
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Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and two former aides sentenced to death lodged appeals on Sunday, the Iraqi prosecutor said, following a trial slammed by some rights experts as unfair and fundamentally flawed.
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The Iraqi prime minister Eyad Allawi said yesterday that the trial of the toppled Iraqi regime Saddam Hussein and his aides might start in October.
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A former U.S. soldier charged with taking part in the gang rape of an Iraqi girl and murdering her and her family should be sentenced to die if a court finds him guilty, U.S. government prosecutors said on Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD, June 24 -- Three senior aides to Saddam Hussein, including the one known as "Chemical Ali," were found guilty of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday and sentenced to death by hanging for their roles in the mass slaughter of as many as...
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The Iraqi trial judge who sentenced  former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to death has asked for  asylum in Britain, Al Jazeera television said on Friday.
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The family of a British civil engineer held hostage in Iraq appealed to Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene to save his life, after grisly images of the beheading of a US hostage appeared on the Internet.
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SEDAR, Iraq -- The first thing Abdullah Mohammed Hussein wants to talk about on the witness stand at Saddam Hussein's trial are his seven dead children, and how they were dumped into a shallow grave in northern Iraq after they were shot in the head, along with their mother.
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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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Care International appeals on Arabic television for the release of its Iraq director, Margaret Hassan.
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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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Saddam Hussein appeared at his genocide trial on Wednesday, despite writing to the chief judge to say he would no longer attend court sessions in protest at being repeatedly silenced.
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Britain&#39;s Ambassador to Iraq appealed for Iraqis to come forward with information on the body of murdered British hostage Ken Bigley so he can &quot;finally be laid to rest in peace.
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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein  appealed to Iraqis from his prison cell to unite against what  he called U.S. efforts to sow sectarian divisions, his lawyers  said on Sunday.
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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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The Iraqi High Court ruled on Monday that Saddam Hussein's former vice president should follow him to the gallows, despite appeals from UN officials and international human rights groups for his life to be spared.
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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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Prosecutors in Ethiopia are seeking to raise a life imprisonment sentence for former Marxist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam to the death penalty after a genocide conviction for crimes during his bloody 17-year rule.