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Iraq PM: election ban dispute to be resolved this week
February 8, 2010

[JURIST] Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki [official website, in Arabic] said Monday that a dispute over banned candidates will be resolved by Friday when campaigning is scheduled to begin for the upcoming elections [JURIST news archive]. He assured [AFP report] Iraqis that the appeals panel will....... [more]

Iraq appeals panel reverses ruling on banned candidates
February 7, 2010

[JURIST] The Iraqi appeals panel that had ruled last week that 500 mostly Sunni politicians accused of ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party [BBC backgrounder] could stand in the coming elections reversed its decision Sunday. In its ruling [Reuters report], which was handed down as hundreds protested....... [more]

Iraq leaders pressure high court to rule on suspected Baath party candidates ban
February 7, 2010

[JURIST] Iraqi leaders on Saturday urged the country's Supreme Court to rule on the recent electoral appeals panel decision allowing about 500 candidates who had been banned for alleged ties to the outlawed Baath party [BBC backgrounder] to run in the March 7 parliamentary elections. The Independent....... [more]

Top military appeals court upholds Abu Ghraib guard convictions
February 5, 2010

[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces [official website] on Friday upheld [case materials] the convictions of two soldiers found guilty of offenses committed as guards at Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST news archive]. Army Spc. Sabrina Harman [opinion, PDF] had been convicted [JURIST repor....... [more]

Iraq government denounces ruling allowing alleged Baathists to run for office
February 4, 2010

Spokesperson for Iraq's Shi'ite government Ali Al-Dabbagh [official website, in Arabic] said Thursday that a decision by an appeals court to allow candidates with suspected ties to the outlawed Baath party [BBC backgrounder] to run for office is illegal and unconstitutional. Under Wednesday's decisi....... [more]

Former UK Cabinet member claims Blair misled parliament on Iraq invasion
February 2, 2010

[JURIST] Former UK international development secretary Clare Short told the Iraq Inquiry [official website] in a public hearing [transcript, PDF; video] on Tuesday that Former UK prime minister Tony Blair [official profile; JURIST news archive] was "misleading" and "deceitful" with the Cabinet and p....... [more]

Blackwater under investigation for bribing Iraq officials following 2007 deaths: NYT
February 1, 2010

[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating whether Blackwater [JURIST news archive], now known as Xe, bribed Iraqi officials to allow them to continue operating in the country following shooting deaths in 2007 [JURIST report], the New York Times reported [text] Monday. The fraud di....... [more]

Former UK legal advisor testifies Iraq ivasion was illegal
January 26, 2010

[JURIST] Former chief legal adviser to the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) [official website] Sir Michael Wood [UN profile, PDF] told the Iraq Inquiry [official website] in a public hearing [video] on Tuesday that he had advised the Foreign Ministry that the 2003 Iraq invasion was illegal....... [more]

Iraq Interior Ministry targeted in car bombing
January 26, 2010

[JURIST] A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside of the Forsenics Lab of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior's Criminal Investigation Department on Tuesday, killing 21 people and injuring at least 80 others. The building collapsed [Al Jazeera report] shortly after the attack, which comes one day af....... [more]

'Chemical Ali' executed in Iraq for ordering gassing of Kurdish village
January 25, 2010

[JURIST] Iraqi officials on Monday executed [press release, in Arabic] Ali Hassan al-Majid [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], better known as "Chemical Ali," for ordering the Kurdish village of Halabja gassed in 1988. Government spokesperson Ali al-Dabbagh stated that al-Majid had committed crimes....... [more]

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