BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's highest court rejected Saddam Hussein's appeal Tuesday and said the former dictator must be hanged within 30 days for his role in the 1982 slayings of 148 Shiite Muslims from a ...

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B A G H D A D, Iraq, July 1, 2004 -- Defiant, belligerent and a little anxious, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein appeared before a single Iraqi judge in a courtroom near Baghdad today to hear ...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- Saddam Hussein's lawyers say the former Iraqi president was roughed up in court this week. His lawyers say a man burst into the courtroom Thursday and tried to strike Saddam as ...

Downcast but defiant, Saddam Hussein appears before an Iraqi court, declaring himself the "president of Iraq" and accusing President Bush of being the real criminal. The seven charges filed against ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was back in court on Tuesday to face charges of genocide against ethnic Kurds, two days after being sentenced to hang for the killing and torture ...

In Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the court system was a weapon wielded by a brutal regime. Saddam drummed up charges against political rivals and intimidated judges into doing his bidding. Five years after ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Nearly two years after his capture, Saddam Hussein is finally facing trial for alleged crimes against fellow Iraqis. In some ways, Iraq also will be on trial, with the world watching ...

Hussein was charged with premeditated murder, imprisonment and the deprivation of physical movement, forced deportation and torture. Seven other defendants stood trial with Hussein: Barzan Hassan, ...

Iraq's highest appeals court upholds the death sentence for Saddam Hussein from his trial for the 1982 killing of 148 Shiites in the city of Dujail. The chief appeals court judge said Saddam must be ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – Iraq’s highest appeals court on Tuesday upheld Saddam Hussein’s death sentence and said he must be hanged within 30 days for the killing of 148 Shiites in the central city of ...