![]() ![]() Judge Abdel-Rahman formally charges Hussein and seven other defendants with crimes against humanity. This will be a separate trial from the current one relating to the 1982 Dujail massacre. In response, several members of the defense team leave the courtroom in protest.įebruHussein, his seven co-defendants and their defense team boycott the proceedings and plan to stay away from the trial until Judge Abdel-Rahman is removed from the court.ĪpHussein and six co-defendants are charged by the Iraqi High Criminal Court with genocide relating to the Anfal campaign against Iraqi Kurds in the late 1980s. ![]() Hassan, Hussein’s half-brother, tests the judge by calling the court the “daughter of a whore.” Hassan is then forcibly removed from the courtroom. JanuJudge Abdel-Rahman warns defendants that he won’t tolerate political speeches in the courtroom. JanuIraqi officials name Chief Judge Raouf Rasheed Abdel-Rahman to replace Amin. JanuChief Judge Amin resigns after complaints that he is too lax with the defendants in the trial. NovemAdel al-Zubeidi, a lawyer for one of Saddam’s co-defendants, Ramadan, is killed and another lawyer wounded during a drive-by shooting.ĭecemThree more lawyers join the defense team: Saleh al-Armoti, Ibrahim al-Mulla and Tayseer al-Mudather. OctoThe lawyer for Bandar, Saadoun al-Janabi, is kidnapped and murdered one day after he appears in court for the opening of the trial. He and seven other co-defendants appear before Chief Judge Rizgar Amin and plead not guilty to the torture and murder of Iraqi citizens in Dujail in 1982. SeptemChief attorney, Dulaimi, denies that Hussein has confessed to ordering executions and waging a campaign against Kurds in which thousands of people are said to have been killed. SeptemIraqi President Jalal Talabani says Hussein has confessed via videotape, audiotape, and signed confessions, to giving the order to gas thousands of Kurds in the late 1980s. Other charges will be heard at separate trials.ĪugHussein confirms that he has fired all his previous lawyers and is now solely represented by Khalil Dulaimi. JThe Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) files the first criminal charges against Hussein for the 1982 massacre of 148 people in Dujail. JHussein’s chief lawyer Khasawneh resigns because he says the American defense team is trying to take over the case. Rashdan is replaced by Ziad al-Khasawneh. November 2004 - Hussein’s family fires his chief lawyer Mohammed al-Rashdan, accusing him of using the trial to seek personal fame. JHussein makes his first appearance in court at his arraignment and is charged with a variety of crimes, including the invasion of Kuwait and the gassing of the Kurds. JThe Coalition turns over legal control of Hussein and 11 other former top Iraqi officials to the interim Iraqi government, but they remain in the physical custody of the US for security reasons. MaThe second Gulf War begins, code named Operation Iraqi Freedom.ĭecemThe US Department of Defense announces Hussein has been captured in a cellar, or “spider hole,” at a farmhouse in Tikrit on Saturday, December 13, 2003. In retaliation, about 150 residents are executed. JResidents of the Shiite Muslim town of Dujail, Iraq, fire on Hussein’s motorcade. The Dujail case was tried first because experts believed it was the most straightforward and easy to prove case. Seven other defendants stood trial with Hussein: Barzan Hassan, Taha Yassin Ramadan, Awad al-Bandar, Abdullah Ruwaid, Ali Dayem Ali, Mohammed Azzawi Ali and Mizher Ruwaid. ![]() Hussein was charged with premeditated murder, imprisonment and the deprivation of physical movement, forced deportation and torture. Here is some background information about the trials and execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. ![]()
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