Gitanjali Gutierrez : "In March 2003, Majid Khan, his brother, his sister-in-law, and his year-old niece were arrested by Pakistani intelligence. It was more than three years before Majid was heard from...
Search Results for: majid
READ MORE ▸
DOJ trying to block legal access to detainee who could disclose CIA techniques
The US Department of Justice is attempting to block lawyers' access to Majid Khan, one of 14 "high value" prisoners previously held at a CIA secret prison but recently transferred to the...
Iraqi PM calls for speedy Saddam trial wrap-up, death sentence
In a joint news conference Wednesday with Moqtada al-Sadr , a militant Shiite cleric and head of the Mehdi Army militia, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki expressed hope for speedy proceedings against former president Saddam Hussein...
Bill Goodman : "The Center for Constitutional Rights is aggressively challenging the appalling Military Commissions Act (MCA) passed by Congress last week. Our allies have already contributed cogent analyses of some of the dangers posed...
Saddam thrown out of court after new judge appointed in Kurdish genocide trial
Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa was appointed Wednesday to preside over the second Saddam Hussein trial , replacing Chief Judge Abdullah al-Amiri who was removed at the Iraqi government's insistence on Tuesday. Defense lawyers walked out...
Saddam genocide trial chief judge removed at government insistence
Chief Judge Abdullah al-Amiri was removed from presiding over the second Saddam Hussein trial on Tuesday, Al-Iraqiya state television reported. A replacement judge, who has not yet been named, has been requested by the Iraqi prime...
The second Saddam Hussein trial resumed in Baghdad Monday with more testimony from prosecution witnesses in the case involving the "Anfal" operation that killed 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s. One former Kurdish...
Iraqi judge says Saddam 'not dictator' as genocide trial continues
Abdullah al-Amiri, the Shiite judge presiding over the second Saddam Hussein trial , said in court Thursday that he did not believe Hussein should be called a dictator, just one day after the prosecution requested that al-Amiri...
Iraqi prosecutor accuses judge of favoring Saddam in genocide trial
Munqidh Al Faraun, the chief prosecutor in the Saddam Hussein trial requested Wednesday that presiding judge Abdullah al-Amiri remove himself from the case for reasons of bias, specifically, for allowing defense lawyers to make politically-charged statements...
The trial of Saddam Hussein and six co-defendants on genocide and crimes against humanity charges related to the so-called "Anfal" operation , which led to the killings of as many as 180,000 Kurds in northern...
