Saddamâs jailed top aides end food protest
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BAGHDAD: The US army said on Monday that eight of toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Husseinâs jailed lieutenants were refusing food, but a short time later stated that the men had given up their protest.
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A Serb war crimes suspect ended his nearly monthlong hunger strike Friday after judges allowed him to conduct his own defense and granted several other demands, the U.N. Yugoslav tribunal announced.Comment
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The head of the World Food Programme in Somalia, detained on Wednesday for investigation, is set free.
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Three people with bullet injuries and over 200 arrests, was the final count of the violent protests in Santiago and other Chilean cities last Saturday, the 31st anniversary of the military coup led by former General Augusto Pinochet.
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Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and 11 top leaders of his regime have gone on hunger strike in their US detention centre, one of their lawyers said yesterday.
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A year after he was captured by US troops, some of Saddam Hussein&#39;s old lieutenants have stirred up new interest in his fate by going on hunger strike
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Aides to the country&#39;s most powerful Shiite leader said they had reached a tentative agreement on Thursday to end the three-week siege in this holy
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BAGHDAD - Two top aides to ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, including his lieutenant Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as &quot;Chemical Ali,&quot; appeared at a pre-trial hearing on Saturday, an Iraqi judge said.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. - Prosecutors dropped the charges Friday against six men arrested for protesting the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal by stripping down to their thong underwear and forming a human pyramid during a visit by President Bush...
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BAGHDAD -- Saddam Hussein's lawyers stormed out of his genocide trial yesterday to protest a government attempt to sack the tribunal's chief judge, a move against the theoretically independent judiciary that has pitched the troubled trial into chaos.
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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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BAGHDAD, Sept. 20 -- Saddam Hussein's lawyers stormed out of his genocide trial on Wednesday to protest a government attempt to sack the tribunal's chief judge, a move against the theoretically independent judiciary that has pitched the troubled trial into chaos.
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IraqÂs prime minister decided to remove the judge after he said last week that Saddam Hussein was Ânot a dictator.Â
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An official inquiry into the corruption that riddled the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq has cleared the Australian government but cited 12 top executives for bribing Saddam Hussein's regime.
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THE HAGUE, Dec. 8 -- A Serb war crimes suspect ended his nearly month-long hunger strike Friday after judges allowed him to conduct his own defense and granted several other demands, the U.N. Yugoslav tribunal announced.
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Iraq News, BAGHDAD: The US army said eight of toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)&#39;s jailed lieutenants were refusing food, but a short time later stated that the men had given up their protest.
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A top aide to radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was freed from US detention on Thursday, an aide to Sadr said. Sheikh Moayad al-Khazraji, who was believed to have been held