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Judge Rizgar says Chemical Ali can hang in
Kurdistan legally
28.6.2007
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Judge
Rizgar says no legal reasons preventing 'Chemical
Ali' from being executed in Kurdistan
June
28, 2007
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- A
judge in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region
has said there are no legal reasons preventing a
cousin and former close aide of Saddam Hussein from
being executed in Kurdistan.
Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin was referring to the
former Iraqi defence minister and military
commander, Ali Hasan al-Majid, also known as
"Chemical Ali", who has been sentenced to death for
his role in the killings of ethnic Kurd villagers in
Iraq during the 1980s.
"There isn't a single juridical text that prevents
the carrying out of a death sentence anywhere within
the borders of Iraq, including the Kurdish city of
Halabja," he told.AKI.
Halabja was where thousands of Kurdish civilians
were killed with poisonous gas and other chemical
weapons, an event which gave al-Majid his nickname.
"Iraqi penal law does not specify the location of
where an execution should take place because this is
a government responsibility. A magistrates' role
ends with the sentencing," Amin told.AKI. |
Rizgar Mohammed Amin, Former Chief judge in the
trial of Saddam Hussein |
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Halabja has launched a citizens' campaign to have
al-Majid hanged in the city, which they believe
would be a symbolic gesture to highlight the
suffering of Iraq's ethnic Kurds under Saddam's
regime.
The former chief judge, a Kurd from Sulaimaniyah
city , who stepped down from the Saddam Hussein case
in 2006.
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