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Rights groups protest Saddam hanging
The execution of Saddam Hussein Saturday has drawn sharp criticism from leading human rights groups. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch both questioned whether the Iraqi appeals court thoroughly scrutinized the guilty verdict of the tri (More) |
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World leaders divided on Saddam execution
World political and religious leaders were divided Saturday in their reaction to the execution of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive; BBC obituary]. In a statement released from his ranch at Crawford, Texas, late Friday night Eastern Time US Presi (More) |
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US handover of Saddam reported imminent, but Iraqis differ on execution timing
US media quoting unnamed US military and intelligence sources reported late Thursday that US authorities in Iraq will physically hand ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein over to Iraqi officials within 36 hours in preparation for an execution th (More) |
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Pending Saddam execution raises Iraqi constitutional question
Iraqi judges and lawyers Wednesday mulled over a potential constitutional complication in the wake of Tuesday's Iraqi High Tribunal appeals chamber affirmation of a death sentence against ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for crimes again (More) |
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Iraqi appeals court upholds Saddam death sentence
The appeals chamber of the Iraqi High Tribunal has affirmed Saddam Hussein's death sentence for crimes against humanity committed in the Iraqi town of Dujail [JURIST news archive; BBC trial timeline] in 1982. A spokesperson for the court said (More) |
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Saddam co-defendants deny using chemical weapons against Kurds
Two co-defendants charged along with Saddam Hussein testified Thursday that chemical weapons were not used against Kurds during the so-called "Anfal" campaigns as the ousted Iraqi president's genocide trial [JURIST news archive; BBC t (More) |
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Iraq executes 13 convicted of murder, rape
Iraqi authorities executed 13 convicted terrorists Tuesday after they were found guilty by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq (CCCI) of murder, rape and burning bodies. The CCCI has held 1,767 trials of insurgents since being re-organizing in 2004, (More) |
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Peru president urges Congress to allow death penalty in terrorism cases
Peruvian President Alan Garcia has called on lawmakers to authorize the death penalty for terrorism offenses . In a speech to the Peruvian Congress Monday, Garcia urged lawmakers to "give the necessary tools to the judges and to the executiv (More) |
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Saddam prosecutors show video of gas attacks as genocide trial continues
Prosecutors at the Iraqi High Tribunal showed video footage of the aftermath of the so-called "Anfal" campaigns as Saddam Hussein's genocide trial [JURIST news archive; BBC trial timeline] continued in Baghdad Tuesday. The footage i (More) |
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California governor orders review of lethal injection protocol
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday ordered his administration to "correct court-identified deficiencies in California's lethal injection protocol to ensure the death penalty procedure is constitutional." In a memoran (More) |
India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster
On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court.
Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.
