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Saddam lawyer contest trial date
22.9.2005
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Baghdad, 21 Sept.
(AKI) - Lawyers for former Iraqi dictator Saddam
Hussein say they will not recognise the October 19
start date for his trial, because they have not been
notified by the tribunal trying him.
The lawyers “will not recognise any date for the
trial if it comes within weeks or months,” said
Khalil Dulaimi, Saddam’s Iraqi lawyer, in a written
statement issued from Baghdad.
He added that the lawyers had not been able to
review any files of the charges "or even any paper
of investigation" despite repeated requests. |
Former dictator
Saddam Hussein
Photo : AP
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Another member of Saddam's defence team,
London-based Abdel Haq Alani, told the Associated
Press that they “must be served notice stating a
trial date and that hasn’t happened.”
Saddam and seven other members of his toppled regime
are due to stand trial in the Iraq Special Tribunal
on October 19.
They are charged with ordering a massacre of 143
people in Dujail, a town north of Baghdad, in 1982
after a failed assassination attempt against the
ousted leader.
If convicted, Saddam could be sentenced to death.
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