FRENCH LAWYER JACQUES VERGES WILL REPRESENT SADDAM HUSSEIN
French lawyer Jacques Verges, in a file photo from Amman, Jordan, December 18, 2003, said on March 27, 2004, that Saddam Hussein's nephew had chosen him to represent Saddam Hussein in his upcoming war crimes tria. Verges is known for defending Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and guerrilla Carlos the Jackal and is presently defending former Iraqi deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz. (UPI Photo/Debbie Hill)
UPI Related News
PARIS, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Paris weighed sheltering top officials in the Baathist government of Iraq just months before the U.S.-led invasion of 2003, former intelligence officials said.
BAGHDAD, March 11 (UPI) -- A former senior Iraqi official under President Saddam Hussein known as "Chemical Ali" has drawn a 15-year prison sentence for war crimes, officials said.
BAGHDAD, March 2 (UPI) -- Former Iraqi general Ali Hasan al-Majeed -- "Chemical Ali" -- Monday was given a third death sentence, this one for his role in putting down an uprising.
ROME, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- The lawyer for former Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz called on Pope Benedict XVI to facilitate his release from custody to mark the Christmas season.
BAGHDAD, July 8 (UPI) -- An Iraqi court in Baghdad postponed to July 16 the trial of Tariq Aziz, Ali Hassan al-Majid and others for the 1992 slaying of 42 businessmen.
BAGHDAD, June 12 (UPI) -- The fifth trial by the Iraqi High Tribunal begins July 21 in the 1999 assassination of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr.
BAGHDAD, May 22 (UPI) -- Witnesses testified in the trial of former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz as his lawyers waited in Jordan for permission to defend their client.
BAGHDAD, May 20 (UPI) -- The trial of Tariq Aziz, Iraq's former deputy prime minister, resumed in Baghdad Tuesday with the prosecutor calling for a tough sentence.
AMMAN, Jordan, May 20 (UPI) -- The son of former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz said his father faces the Iraqi High Tribunal Tuesday on war crimes charges without legal counsel.
BAGHDAD, April 30 (UPI) -- The commencement of the war crimes trial for former Iraqi Deputy Premier Tariq Aziz inspired cries of victor's justice and Christian oppression.
