Saddam's trial was flawed - UN « Thread Started on Dec 29, 2006, 5:44am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Saddam's trial was flawed - UN November 28 2006 at 04:10PM By Stephanie NebehayGeneva - United Nations human rights experts called on Iraq's government on Tuesday not to carry out the death sentence passed on former leader Saddam Hussein, saying his trial had been seriously flawed.The UN working group on arbitrary detention said the Iraqi tribunal had lacked independence and impartiality, had not given Saddam enough time to prepare his defence, and had restricted his access to his lawyers and right to call his own witnesses."The working group also urges the Iraqi government to refrain from carrying out the sentence of death by hanging imposed in a proceeding, which does not meet applicable basic standards of a fair trial," it said in a statement.read at source> http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1 ... 900121B262