Defence lawyers expected to attend Saddam trial
The court trying Saddam Hussein and seven others for a 1982 massacre of 148 Shiites expects defence lawyers to attend next week’s hearing, despite their threat to boycott the trial, a US official close to the proceedings said today.
The official told a news briefing that the court had “standby” defence lawyers to step in if the defence team made good on its threat to boycott the November 28 hearing, the first since the trial opened on October 19.
