From:Chinadaily
Amman, Jordan - Defense lawyers called Friday for judges to postpone their verdict in Saddam Hussein‘s Dujail trial -- expected Sunday -- and allow them to present final arguments in defense of the deposed president.
The call came in a letter addressed to the presiding judge of the Baghdad court that has been trying Saddam and his seven co-defendants on charges of crimes against humanity for the past 13 months. A copy of the letter was given to The Associated Press in Amman.
The 10-member defense team, including former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, wrote that it would be premature to deliver the verdict on Sunday "because the court did not receive the final defense statements yet."
The letter asked the judge for permission to "read the defense final statements and for the court to set another date for the defense argument in not less than 60 days‘ time."
It was not possible to confirm that the judges had received the letter on Friday.
When the trial adjourned on July 27 for the judges to consider their verdict, Saddam was represented by court-appointed lawyers because his own counsel had boycotted the trial since the June killing of their colleague Khamis al-Obeidi, the third defense attorney to be slain during the trial.
Saddam and seven former members of his regime have pleaded innocent to the killing of 148 Muslim Shiites from the northern Iraqi town of Dujail in 1982. The inhabitants were shot after an attempt to assassinate Saddam as he passed through the town.
He is widely expected to be convicted and condemned to death.
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薩達姆的辯護律師安曼·約旦周五要求法官將對薩達姆·候賽因的原定于周日執行的杜賈爾村案的審判推遲，并且要求允許他們?yōu)槊饴毜目偨y做最后的陳辨。
這個(gè)要求是以信件的形式呈遞給巴格達法院的首席法官的，巴格達法院曾就薩達姆和他手下的另七名被告在過(guò)去13個(gè)月內所做的反人權的罪行進(jìn)行了審判。這封信的復印件被送到了在安曼的聯(lián)合新聞社。
包括前美國首席檢察官拉姆齊·克拉克在內的10人辯護團在信中寫(xiě)到，周日執行審判還不夠成熟，“因為法院還沒(méi)有收到最后的辯護聲明?！?nbsp;
信中請求法官允許“陳述最后的辯護聲明，宣讀最終辯護聲明，并為最終辯護重新設定日期，期限不低于60天?！?nbsp;
目前尚不能確定法官們已經(jīng)于周五收到了這封信。
自7月27日由于法官考慮到他們的量刑而被中止審判開(kāi)始，薩達姆由法院指派的律師為其辯護，因為他自己的辯護律師自六月份開(kāi)始就抵制審判，因為他們的同僚Khamis al-Obeid被殺害， Khamis al-Obeid是第三個(gè)在審判期間被殺害的律師。
薩達姆和他前權力集團的七人已經(jīng)就1982年在伊拉克北部杜賈爾村殺害148名穆斯林什葉派村民的事件做了無(wú)罪辯護。這些村民是在試圖暗殺行經(jīng)該村該村薩達姆之后被殺害的。
人們還是希望判薩達姆有罪并將其處于死刑。 |
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