Can deposed dictator get a fair hearing?
Human rights groups have criticised the government for trying to influence the trial, adding that considerable US logistical and financial aid to the tribunal could lend credibility to charges it will mete out “victors’ justice”.
The court also is operating under its own rules - laid out when the court was created in 2003 while Iraq was still run by American administrators - and a 1971 Saddam-era criminal law that some have criticised as not up to international standards.
