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Iraqi court denies judge who sentenced Saddam has
fled
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March 12, 2007
BAGHDAD, -- The Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday
denied reports that the judge who sentenced former
dictator Saddam Hussein to hang for crimes against
humanity has fled to
Britain to seek political asylum. “This report
is not true, he is having an ordinary vacation
outside Iraq,” the tribunal said in a statement.
“Judge Rauf Rasheed Abdel Rahman called us
personally from London and he denied this report
completely.”
The Arabic satellite news channel Al-Jazeera
reported on Friday that Abdel Rahman has applied for
asylum both for himself and his family in Britain,
citing an unnamed British official. The Doha-based
channel said the Iraqi Kurdish judge has been in
Britain since December on a tourist visa.
The UK Home Office has refused to confirm or deny
Judge Rahman's approach. A spokesman said: "For
obvious reasons, we never discuss individual cases."
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. |
Chief Judge Raouf Abdel Rahman, headed the panel for
Saddam's trial in the killing of Shi'as in Dujail. |
Abdel-Rahman had been detained and tortured in the
1980s by Saddam's security agents. Efforts to
contact Abdel-Rahman were unsuccessful.
Ousted president Saddam was hanged on December 30
after being sentenced to death on November 5 for the
murder of 148 Shiite civilians from the town of
Dujail, north of Baghdad, in the 1980s following a
failed assassination bid.
AFP
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