Known as a defence attorney

Lawyer

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 during the Hussein Trials, Saadoun antar nassif al-Janabi was one of two lawyers representing Awad Hamed al-Bandar

Awad Hamed al-Bandar

Awad Hamad al-Bandar was an Iraqi chief judge under Saddam Hussein's presidency. He was the head of the Revolutionary Court which issued death sentences against 143 Dujail residents, in the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on the president on July 8, 1982 Awad Hamad al-Bandar ...

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Ten masked gunmen wearing Iraqi Police uniforms abducted al-Janabi, who was reportedly cooperative, from the office in his Baghdad

Baghdad

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 home on October 20th 2005, one day after the trial began. His body was recovered outside an Ur

Ur

Ur was an important city-state in ancient Sumer located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar in Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate...

 mosque the following day with two gunshots to the head. Dheyaa al-Saadi

Dheyaa al-Saadi

Dheyaa al-Saadi is an Iraqi lawyer. As leader of the Iraqi Bar Association, he protested against the Iraqi government's dissolution of the association's elected council in March 2006...

, a lawyer who the following year led the Iraqi Bar Association

Iraqi Bar Association

The Iraqi Bar Association , created in 1933, is the biggest lawyers' association in Iraq, with tens of thousands of members as of 2007...

, criticised the assassination, stating "This will have grave repercussions. This will hinder lawyers from defending those held for political reasons."

See also

• Adel al-Zubeidi
  Adel al-Zubeidi
  Adel al-Zubeidi was a defense attorney during the Hussein Trials on the legal team representing Taha Yassin Ramadan.He was killed on November 8, 2005, by three gunmen driving in either an Opel or a "government vehicle" outside Adil, a Sunni neighbourhood of Baghdad. He was traveling with Thamer...
  
  , a defense attorney for Taha Yassin Ramadan
  Taha Yassin Ramadan
  Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi was a prominent Iraqi Kurd, serving as Vice President of Iraq from March 1991 to the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003....
  
  , murdered in 2005
• Khamis al-Obeidi
  Khamis al-Obeidi
  Khamis al-Obeidi was a lawyer defending Saddam Hussein and Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, from the time the former leader's trial began in Baghdad on October 19, 2005 until his assassination. He was a Sunni Muslim, was married and had six children...
  
  , a defense attorney for Saddam Hussein
  Saddam Hussein
  Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
  
  , murdered in 2006