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Iraq delays 'Taha Yassin Ramadan' death
penalty hearing
25.1.2007 |
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Iraqi judge postpones session expected to impose
death sentence on former Saddam deputy Taha Yassin
Ramadan
BAGHDAD, January 25,-- An Iraqi judge postponed
sentencing for Saddam Hussein's vice president
because lawyers for relatives and victims of the
crimes failed to show up today.
Taha Yassin Ramadan is expected to hang just like
his boss. The court had been expected to raise the
sentence after an appeals court ruled that Ramadan's
previous sentence of life in prison was too lenient.
Judge Ali al-Kahishi said the session will be
adjourned until Feb. 12, "because the plaintiff
lawyers are not present in the court because they
were not notified."
Ramadan was convicted along with Saddam and five
others for ordering the killing of Shiites in the
town of Dujail, north of Baghdad, following an
assassination attempt there against Saddam 25 years
ago. Prosecutors said 148 were killed in
retribution.
On Nov. 5, Ramadan was convicted of murder, forced
deportation and torture and sentenced to life in
prison sentenced to life in prison. A month later,
the appeals court said the sentence was too lenient,
and returned his case to the High Tribunal,
demanding he be sentenced to death. The court agreed
to turn it to a death sentence. |
Taha Yassin Ramadan, Saddam Hussein's vice president |
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The same day Ramadan was convicted, the court
sentenced Saddam, his half brother and former
intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim, and Awad Hamed
al-Bandar, former head of Iraq's Revolutionary
Court, to death. Three other defendants were
sentenced to 15 years in jail while one was
acquitted.
Saddam was hanged on Dec. 30, while Ibrahim and
al-Bandar were executed Jan. 15, provoking anger
among their fellow Sunnis after the former leader's
half brother was decapitated on the gallows.
AP
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