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Right here is a few background details about the trials and execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Hussein was charged with premeditated homicide, imprisonment and the deprivation of bodily motion, compelled deportation and torture.
Seven different defendants stood trial with Hussein: Barzan Hassan, Taha Yassin Ramadan, Awad al-Bandar, Abdullah Ruwaid, Ali Dayem Ali, Mohammed Azzawi Ali and Mizher Ruwaid.
The Dujail case was tried first as a result of specialists believed it was essentially the most easy and simple to show case.
July 8, 1982 – Residents of the Shiite Muslim city of Dujail, Iraq, hearth on Hussein’s motorcade. In retaliation, about 150 residents are executed.
March 19, 2003 – The second Gulf Struggle begins, code named Operation Iraqi Freedom.
December 14, 2003 – The US Division of Protection pronounces Hussein has been captured in a cellar, or “spider gap,” at a farmhouse in Tikrit on Saturday, December 13, 2003.
June 30, 2004 – The Coalition turns over authorized management of Hussein and 11 different former high Iraqi officers to the interim Iraqi authorities, however they continue to be within the bodily custody of the US for safety causes.
July 1, 2004 – Hussein makes his first look in courtroom at his arraignment and is charged with a wide range of crimes, together with the invasion of Kuwait and the gassing of the Kurds. He pleads not responsible.
November 2004 – Hussein’s household fires his chief lawyer Mohammed al-Rashdan, accusing him of utilizing the trial to hunt private fame. Rashdan is changed by Ziad al-Khasawneh.
July 7, 2005 – Hussein’s chief lawyer Khasawneh resigns as a result of he says the American protection group is making an attempt to take over the case.
July 17, 2005 – The Iraqi Particular Tribunal (IST) recordsdata the primary legal fees in opposition to Hussein for the 1982 bloodbath of 148 folks in Dujail. Different fees can be heard at separate trials.
August 23, 2005 – Hussein confirms that he has fired all his earlier attorneys and is now solely represented by Khalil Dulaimi.
September 6, 2005 – Iraqi President Jalal Talabani says Hussein has confessed by way of videotape, audiotape, and signed confessions, to giving the order to gasoline hundreds of Kurds within the late 1980s.
September 8, 2005 – Chief lawyer, Dulaimi, denies that Hussein has confessed to ordering executions and waging a marketing campaign in opposition to Kurds wherein hundreds of persons are mentioned to have been killed.
October 19, 2005 – Hussein’s trial begins in Baghdad. He and 7 different co-defendants seem earlier than Chief Choose Rizgar Amin and plead not responsible to the torture and homicide of Iraqi residents in Dujail in 1982.
October 20, 2005 – The lawyer for Bandar, Saadoun al-Janabi, is kidnapped and murdered in the future after he seems in courtroom for the opening of the trial.
November 8, 2005 – Adel al-Zubeidi, a lawyer for one in every of Saddam’s co-defendants, Ramadan, is killed and one other lawyer wounded throughout a drive-by capturing.
December 27, 2005 – Three extra attorneys be part of the protection group: Saleh al-Armoti, Ibrahim al-Mulla and Tayseer al-Mudather.
January 15, 2006 – Chief Choose Amin resigns after complaints that he’s too lax with the defendants within the trial.
January 23, 2006 – Iraqi officers title Chief Choose Raouf Rasheed Abdel-Rahman to interchange Amin.
January 29, 2006 – Choose Abdel-Rahman warns defendants that he gained’t tolerate political speeches within the courtroom. Hassan, Hussein’s half-brother, exams the decide by calling the courtroom the “daughter of a whore.” Hassan is then forcibly faraway from the courtroom. In response, a number of members of the protection group depart the courtroom in protest.
February 2, 2006 – Hussein, his seven co-defendants and their protection group boycott the proceedings and plan to steer clear of the trial till Choose Abdel-Rahman is faraway from the courtroom.
April 4, 2006 – Hussein and 6 co-defendants are charged by the Iraqi Excessive Legal Courtroom with genocide regarding the Anfal marketing campaign in opposition to Iraqi Kurds within the late 1980s. This can be a separate trial from the present one regarding the 1982 Dujail bloodbath.
Might 15, 2006 – Choose Abdel-Rahman formally fees Hussein and 7 different defendants with crimes in opposition to humanity. Hussein refuses to enter a plea.
June 21, 2006 – Protection lawyer Khamis al-Ubaidi is kidnapped from his dwelling by males wearing Iraqi police uniforms, and murdered. Ubaidi had been defending Hussein and his half-brother, Hassan. In response, all seven defendants within the trial mentioned they’ll go on a starvation strike till their attorneys are put underneath worldwide safety.
July 27, 2006 – Courtroom adjourns to deliberate a verdict within the Dujail trial.
August 21, 2006 – A brand new trial in opposition to Hussein begins. He and 6 co-defendants are being tried on genocide fees for his or her position within the 1980s marketing campaign, Operation Anfal, wherein 100,000 Kurds had been killed. If convicted, they may face the loss of life penalty.
September 19, 2006 – Chief Choose Abdullah al-Amiri is faraway from the case after telling Hussein that he wasn’t a dictator.
September 20, 2006 – New Chief Choose Mohammad Orabi Majeed Al-Khalefa replaces Amiri.
November 5, 2006 – Hussein is sentenced to loss of life by hanging for the 1982 Dujail bloodbath. Co-defendants Hassan and Bandar obtain loss of life sentences. Former Vice President Ramadan is sentenced to life in jail. Abdullah Ruwaid, Dayem Ali and Mizher Ruwaid obtain 15-year sentences. Azzawi Ali is acquitted for lack of proof.
December 26, 2006 – An appellate chamber of the Iraqi Excessive Tribunal upholds Hussein’s loss of life sentence. Choose Aref Shaheen reads the choice of the courtroom and says it’s the closing phrase within the case. Subsequently, Hussein’s execution should happen earlier than January 27, 2007, underneath Iraqi legislation.
December 30, 2006 – Hussein is hanged a couple of minutes after 6:00 a.m. Baghdad time.