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Saddam absent from court as Iraq trial resumes
The Saddam Hussein trial resumed in Baghdad on Monday, though the former Iraqi leader was not in court due to his weekend hospitalization after collapsing in jail [LA Times report] on the sixteenth day of his hunger strike protesting trial court p (More) |
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Serb move against Mladic long time coming...
Michael J. Kelly : "Serbia has moved against a group of nationalist co-conspirators who have been hiding wanted war criminal Radko Mladic for about a decade. The Serb government, largely unresponsive to repeated requests to turn over such perpet (More) |
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Saddam on Day 10 of hunger strike protesting inadequate security
Saddam Hussein and three co-defendants have entered their tenth day of a hunger strike protesting the lack of security for defense lawyers in their trial, US military spokesman Lt. Col. Keir-Kevin Curry said Monday. Hussein began the hunger strik (More) |
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Saddam on fifth day of new hunger strike
The US military revealed Wednesday that Saddam Hussein and three of his co-defendants are five days into a hunger strike in protest of trial court procedures and the killings of three of their defense lawyers, which they believe occurred because of (More) |
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Ohio executes first inmate under new lethal injection procedures
Ohio authorities on Wednesday morning executed the first inmate under new lethal injection guidelines implemented last month in a move to prevent extreme pain during an execution. In a June report and letter to Ohio Governor Bob Taft, Ohio Depart (More) |
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Saddam judge adjourns trial to resolve defense boycott
Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman , presiding over the Saddam Hussein trial , on Tuesday adjourned the trial until July 24 in a bid to give Hussein and his lawyers time to return from a boycott of proceedings. Hussein, along with several co-defendants and d (More) |
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Saddam boycotts trial with key lawyers as defense closing arguments begin
Saddam Hussein, along with several co-defendants and defense lawyers, boycotted trial proceedings Monday at the Iraq High Tribunal as the defense was scheduled to begin closing arguments. The court did hear from a lawyer for defendant Ali Dayih Ali (More) |
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Former US soldier charged with rape, murder in Mahmudiya probe
Federal prosecutors in Charlotte charged former US Army soldier Steven Green with murder and rape Monday in connection with the death of an Iraqi woman and three family members in Mahmudiya in March. US Army Maj. Gen. James Thurman, commander of th (More) |
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Uzbekistan president appoints group to draft law abolishing death penalty
Uzbekistan moved closer to abolishing the death penalty on Thursday as Uzbek President Islam Karimov ordered the establishment of a commission charged with drafting anti-death penalty legislation as well as new criminal laws, both substantive and p (More) |
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Europe rights watchdog urges Russia, US, Japan to abolish death penalty
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly on Wednesday renewed calls for Russia to abolish the death penalty . Russia recently assumed the rotating chairmanship of the COE's Committee of Ministers . The Assembly also suggested that if talks (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.
