Resumo de The Trials Of Saddam Hussein

The trials of Saddam Hussein, the former President of Iraq, are being held under the Iraqi Special Tribunal. He is tried for allegations involving human rights abuses in Iraq, in particular in the context of the failed assassination attempt in Dujail in 1982. He may also be tried for events dating to the Iran-Iraq War and the invasion of Kuwait including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. He could face the death penalty if convicted.On June 30, 2004, Hussein, held in custody by U.S. forces at Camp Cropper in Baghdad, along with eleven senior Ba'athist officials, was handed over to the interim Iraqi government to stand trial. Particular attention will be paid to his activities in violent campaigns against the Kurds in the north during the Iran-Iraq War, and against the Shiites in the south in 1991 and 1999 to put down revolts. Saddam asserts that he remains
First hearing
The 68-year-old deposed Iraqi leader appeared confident and defiant throughout the 46-minute hearing. Alternating between listening to and gesturing at the judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin, Saddam Hussein questioned the legitimacy of the tribunal set up to try him. He called the court a play aimed at Bush's chances of winning the U.S. presidential elections." He emphatically rejected charges against him. This is all theatre. The real criminal is Bush, he stated. When asked by the judge to identify himself in his first appearance before an Iraqi judge, he answered, You are an Iraqi, you know who I am.I am still the president of the republic and the occupation cannot take that away," declared Saddam Hussein.
Also during the arraignment, Saddam defended Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait and referred to Kuwait's rulers as dogs," which led to an admonishment from the judge for using coarse language in court (dogs are widely considered to be unclean animals in the Islamic world). Later on July 1, Kuwait's information minister Abul-Hassan said crude language was expected of Saddam. This is how he was raised, said the minister. [1] Unlike the conservative monarchs in the area, which rule every other Arab nation in the Persian Gulf region, Saddam was born into a hard-scrabble, landless peasant family and was allegedly beaten as a child.
Although no attorneys for Saddam were present at the July 1 hearing, his first wife, Sajida Talfah, has hired a multinational legal team of over 20 attorneys, headed by Jordanian Mohammad Rashdan and including Ayesha Qaddafi (Libya), Curtis Doebbler (United States), Emmanuel Ludot (France), Marc Henzelin (Switzerland) and Giovanni di Stefano (United Kingdom). Towards the end of the hearing, the deposed president refused to sign the legal document confirming his understanding of the charges.

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