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Iraq's "Chemical Ali" given third death sentence

 From reuters.com
BAGHDAD, March 2 (Reuters) - Ali Hassan al-Majeed, a former official in Saddam Hussein's regime known as "Chemical Ali", was given a third death sentence on Monday for his role in killing and displacing Shi'ite Muslims in 1999. "The court condemns Ali Hassan al-Majeed to death by hanging for jointly committing premeditated killing, as a crime against humanity," Judge Mohammed al-Uraibi said. Majeed, a cousin of Saddam, earned his nickname for his role in using poison gas to kill thousands of...Read Full Story

Iraq's Saddam-era culture minister released

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Hamed Yussef Hamadi, who was a culture minister under Saddam Hussein, has been released after over six years in prison and has left Iraq, a justice ministry spokesman and a lawyer said on Friday.Justice ministry spokesman Haidar al-Saadi said that Hamadi had been released, but provided no further details.Lawyer Badie Aref, who represented 17 Saddam-era officials, including former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz, said that Hamadi was released from detention in Kadhimiyah prison in Baghdad on...Read Full Story

U.S. hands main war base, Saddam palaces back to Iraq

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military returned its biggest base in Iraq to the government on Friday, a huge compound near Baghdad airport that housed the American war operations centre and hosted a captive Saddam Hussein before his execution.Victory Base Complex, a site ringed by 42 kilometers (27 miles) of blast walls and razor wire, was the U.S. command centre for the Iraq war almost from the moment American troops entered the capital and pulled down Saddam's statue in 2003.The handover of...Read Full Story

Saddam Hussein

By Young Politicians on  From young-politicians.blogspot.com
Executed on December,30th,2006. He ruled Iraq for 24 years. He was hung and accused of killing 148 people in a town of his enemies. I also found a video of his execution also ! Among Saddam's co-defendants, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, his half-brother and Iraq's intelligence chief at the time of the Dujail killings, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, who issued death sentences to Dujail residents as head of a Revolutionary Court, were also sentenced to death by hanging Saddam's chief defense lawyer...Read Full Story

Saddam Hussein

By Young Politicians on  From young-politicians.blogspot.com
Executed on December,30th,2006. He ruled Iraq for 24 years. He was hung and accused of killing 148 people in a town of his enemies. I also found a video of his execution also !Among Saddam's co-defendants, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, his half-brother and Iraq's intelligence chief at the time of the Dujail killings, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, who issued death sentences to Dujail residents as head of a Revolutionary Court, were also sentenced to death by hangingSaddam's chief defense lawyer...Read Full Story

Saddam Hussein and his aides should certainly have been held to account for the horrific human rights crimes committed by his government but this should have been through a fair trial process and without recourse to the death penalty. Reports that Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti had his head severed during the hanging only emphasis the brutality of this already cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.

  -  Malcolm Smart, Director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Programme

Source:  electroniciraq.net

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