The just-concluded trial of Saddam Hussein and members of his regime was marred by so many flaws that the verdict is unsound, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement released on Monday.

The report – one of the harshest and best-documented critiques of the trial process – points out many of the procedural flaws that the human rights group and other courtroom observers had already noted. But it also argues that there were gaps in establishing the individual guilt of each of the seven defendants.