#Saddam hussein capture 2011 trial#

At this trial Saddam and seven other defendants were tried for crimes against humanity with regard to events that took place after a failed assassination attempt in Dujail in 1982 by members of the Islamic Dawa Party (also see human rights abuses in Iraq under Saddam Hussein). The first trial began before the Iraqi Special Tribunal on 19 October 2005. Saddam asserted in his defense that he had been unlawfully overthrown, and was still the president of Iraq. Particular attention was paid during the trial to activities in violent campaigns against the Kurds in the north during the Iran–Iraq War, against the Shiites in the south in 19 to put down revolts, and in Dujail after a failed assassination attempt against Saddam on 8 July 1982, during the Iran–Iraq War. He remained in custody by United States forces at Camp Cropper in Baghdad, along with eleven senior Ba'athist officials. The Coalition Provisional Authority voted to create the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST), consisting of five Iraqi judges, on 9 December 2003, to try Saddam Hussein and his aides for charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide dating back to the early 1980s. The trial of Saddam Hussein was the trial of the deposed President of Iraq Saddam Hussein by the Iraqi Interim Government for crimes against humanity during his time in office. Saddam Hussein found guilty of crimes against humanity and was subsequently sentenced to death he was executed on 30 December 2006. Saddam Hussein sits before an Iraqi judge

Saddam hussein capture 2011