{"id":399769,"date":"2017-07-11T09:20:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T09:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/07\/11\/judge-who-sentenced-saddam-hussein-to-death-executed\/"},"modified":"2017-07-11T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T09:20:42","slug":"judge-who-sentenced-saddam-hussein-to-death-executed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/11\/judge-who-sentenced-saddam-hussein-to-death-executed\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death ‘executed’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The judge who sentenced former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to death has been captured and executed by ISIS militants, it is claimed.<\/p>\n

Raouf Abdul Rahman, who sentenced the dictator to death by hanging in 2006, was reportedly killed by rebels in retaliation for the execution\u00a0of the 69-year-old.<\/p>\n

His death has not been confirmed by the Iraqi government, but officials had not denied reports of his capture last week.<\/p>\n

He is believed to have been arrested on June 16, and died two days later.<\/p>\n

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Jordanian MP Khalil Attieh wrote on his Facebook page that\u00a0Judge Rahman, who had headed the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal during Saddam\u2019s trial, had been arrested and sentenced to death.<\/p>\n

\u2018Iraqi\u00a0revolutionaries\u00a0arrested him and sentenced him to death in retaliation for the death of the martyr Saddam Hussein,\u2019 he said, according to\u00a0Al-Mesyroon.<\/p>\n

Attieh also said that Judge Rahman had unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Baghdad disguised in a dancer\u2019s costume.<\/p>\n

The Facebook page for Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri,\u00a0Saddam\u2019s former deputy\u00a0who has emerged as a key figure among the Sunni militants, also posted that the rebels had been able to arrest Judge Rahman.<\/p>\n

Judge Rahmann, who was born in the\u00a0Kurdish town of Halabja, took over midway through the trial in January 2006 after previous judge\u00a0Rizgar Amin was criticised for being too lenient in his dealings with Hussein and his co-defendants.<\/p>\n

The father of three had graduated from\u00a0Baghdad University\u2019s law school in 1963 and worked as a lawyer before he was\u00a0appointed as the chief judge of the Kurdistan Appeals Court in 1996.<\/p>\n

He oversaw Saddam\u2019s trial for crimes against humanity over the killing of 148 people in the town of\u00a0Dujail following an\u00a0assassination attempt in 1982, and sentenced him to death by hanging following the guilty verdict.<\/p>\n

Judge Rahman had faced claims that he was biased as his home town had been the subject of a poison gas attack in 1988, allegedly ordered by Hussein.<\/p>\n

A number of Judge Rahman\u2019s relatives were among the 5,000 people killed in the attack, and during the 1980s he was also reportedly detained and tortured by Saddam\u2019s security agents.<\/p>\n

The judge later criticised the way the execution was carried out in December 2006, saying in 2008 that it should not have been carried out in public and branding it \u2018uncivilised and backward\u2019.<\/p>\n

The hanging had taken place as Sunni Muslims were celebrating the\u00a0religious festival Eid al-Adha, and a video of the execution showed the former leader being taunted by\u00a0members of the Shi\u2019ite group.<\/p>\n

In March 2007 it was reported that Judge Rahman had applied for asylum in Britain after travelling to the UK with his family on a tourist visa, claiming he feared for his life.<\/p>\n

He never commented on the claims, which were denied by the Iraqi High Criminal Court Tribunal which said he had merely been in the UK for a holiday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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