He is the third defence lawyer to be killed since October. Meanwhile lawyers for two of the more minor defendants - Ali Daeem Ali and Mohammed Azawi Ali, both former Baath party officials for the ...

Saddam and seven senior members of his regime are facing charges that they ordered the killing in 1982 of nearly 150 people in the mainly Shiite village of Dujail north of Baghdad after a failed ...

Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was found guilty last month and sentenced to hang for the killings of 148 Shi'ite men from the town of Dujail. The Iraqi High Tribunal also handed down death ...

Here are some key facts on the background to the case. WHAT HAPPENED IN DUJAIL? In Dujail, a Shi'ite farming village about 60 km (35 miles) north of Baghdad, local young men tried but failed to ...

The witness said he and his father were arrested in Dujail but released. He said that in 2004 he met al-Moussawi and recounted his story. Al-Moussawi "told me, 'This testimony will not serve the ...

Prosecutors are seeking to show that al-Bandar’s court gave the 148 Shia only a cursory trial on charges that they tried to assassinate Saddam in the town of Dujail in 1982 – and that Saddam ...

Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has admitted razing the farms of those convicted of trying to kill him in an attempted assassination in Dujail. He told the court he had signed papers ordering the ...

Saddam's former personal secretary, Abed Hamid, took the stand for the toppled leader in an attempt to justify a crackdown that led to the execution of 148 Shi'ite men and teenagers after the attack ...