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=== News Update ===
UN HUMAN RIGHTS BODY DECLARES
SADDAM DETENTION AND TRIAL ILLEGAL
AS A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
An United Nations expert human rights law body has declared the trial of
former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein before an Iraqi special court is
illegal because it violates the right to fair trial under international
law.
In the decision hand down on 1 September 2006, but not provide to the
former Iraqi President's lawyers until just a few days ago, the United
Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that the "deprivation
of liberty of Mr. Saddam Hussein is arbitrary, being in contravention of
article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights
to which Iraq and the United States are parties."
The Working Group—which consists of legal experts from Iran, Algeria,
Paraguay, Spain and Hungary—spent more than two years collecting
information and reviewing the case before making its decision. The
Working Group's decisions are based on its interpretation of
international treaties, primarily the International Covenant of Civil
and Political Rights. In this case the Working Group found article 14 of
the International Covenant to have been violated in numerous ways.
On 30 November 2005, the Working Group had issued a Preliminary Opinion
and requested the United States and Iraq to remedy the situation. Since
then, as a second trial began, another defence lawyer has been killed,
the United States government has continued to fail to provide adequate
security, a relative of one of judges has been killed, the defence
lawyers have been threatened to the extent that they can no longer
safely participate in proceedings, and the violations of due process in
the courtroom have continued.
"The decision of the UN Working Group is not surprising. Anyone who has
been following the trial knows that it has been a gross abuse of law.
The Working Opinion vindicates what I and other international legal
experts have been claiming for months. The ball is now in the United
States' court. Together with the occupation government it have installed
in Iraq, the United States government must decide if it will respect
international law or whether it continue to act with disrespect for this
law," said Dr. Curtis F.J. Doebbler, a professor law at An-Najah
National University and the lawyer for the former Iraqi President who
filed the case.
Doebbler added, "If the United States continues to so blatantly violate
international law, the rest of the international community must impose
very serious consequences. If they do not, we will have lost the war to
all those who say that law does not count and that violence is the only
way forward. Is this the message George Bush wants to send? It is the
message he is sending."
The Working Group lacks authority to enforce its decisions, however,
states that act contrary to the decision of the Working Group have been
viewed a pariah state in the international community and often been
subjected to sanctions, restrictions on the travel of their officials,
and boycotts.
For further information contact Mr. Arno Develay at +1-646-853-7472 (The
decisions are attached).
No. 31/2006 and Preliminary Opinion (14 pages total).
source:
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?
mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/1106/un-saddam_011106.htm
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