Tariq Aziz to die by hanging
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Iraq's top criminal court has sentenced one of the most prominent figures of Saddam Hussein's regime to die by hanging, reports VOA.
Iraqi state television reported the sentence was handed down Tuesday to former foreign minister Tariq Aziz for his role in the persecution of Islamic political parties.
The death sentence is the first for Aziz, who is already serving a 15-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity.
Aziz has said he is guilty of nothing more than being a loyalist. He says he, personally, committed no crime.
Saddam Hussein, his former boss, was captured in Iraq in 2003 and executed by the interim Iraqi government in 2006.
In an interview with the British Guardian newspaper earlier this year, Aziz said the US invasion of Iraq had "killed" his homeland.
Also Tuesday, a bomb targeting an Iraqi deputy planning minister wounded at least three people in Baghdad. A separate bombing north of Baghdad killed six members of an Iraqi army patrol.
Iraqi state television reported the sentence was handed down Tuesday to former foreign minister Tariq Aziz for his role in the persecution of Islamic political parties.
The death sentence is the first for Aziz, who is already serving a 15-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity.
Aziz has said he is guilty of nothing more than being a loyalist. He says he, personally, committed no crime.
Saddam Hussein, his former boss, was captured in Iraq in 2003 and executed by the interim Iraqi government in 2006.
In an interview with the British Guardian newspaper earlier this year, Aziz said the US invasion of Iraq had "killed" his homeland.
Also Tuesday, a bomb targeting an Iraqi deputy planning minister wounded at least three people in Baghdad. A separate bombing north of Baghdad killed six members of an Iraqi army patrol.