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Kurdish Judge who sentenced Saddam flees Iraq
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March 10, 2007
The Iraqi judge who sentenced Iraq's ousted
president Saddam Hussein to death has fled Iraq
seeking asylum in Britain.
Raouf Abdel-Rahman, a member of Iraq's Kurdish
minority, has requested political asylum in Britain
with his family, the Arabic language al-Jazeera news
broadcaster reported on Friday.
Abdel-Rahman headed the Supreme Iraq Criminal
Tribunal that heard Saddam's genocide trial and
found him guilty, leading to his execution.
Raouf Abdel-Rahman a Kurd, was biased because his
hometown of Halabja in Kurdistan region (Iraq) was
subjected to a 1988 poison gas attack allegedly
ordered by the former president. Some 5,000 Kurds
were killed in that attack, including several of
Abdel-Rahman's relatives.
Abdel-Rahman had been detained and tortured in the
1980s by Saddam's security agents. Efforts to
contact Abdel-Rahman were unsuccessful. |
Chief Judge Raouf Abdel Rahman, headed the panel for
Saddam's trial in the killing of Shi'as in Dujail. |
Saddam, who was put to death in December, was found
guilty of killing more than a hundred Shiite Iraqis
in the village of Dujail following a failed
assassination attempt on him.
DPA | AP
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