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Saddam Hussein "condemned to died by hanging"
BAGHDAD - former president Saddam Hussein "was condemned to died by hanging" Sunday by the High Iraqi penal court, for his responsibility in the execution for 148 inhabitants Shiites for the village for Doujaïl in the years 1980, in reprisals with an attack against his convoy.
Saddam Hussein constantly tried to stop judge Raouf Rachid Abdel Rahmane at the time of the statement of the verdict, by shouting "long life in Iraq". It appeared obviously shaken by the judgment.
The statutes of the court envisage an automatic procedure of appeal in the event of death sentence, which could push back several weeks or several months the execution of the verdict.
The High penal court followed the requisitions of the prosecutor Jaafar Al-Moussaoui, who had asked on 19 for June the death penalty against the former strong man of Iraq, 69 years old.
Saddam Hussein, who directed the country of an iron hand of 1979 until her fall in April 2003, and seven former persons in charge for her mode, are continued for the massacre of 148 villagers Shiites of Doujaïl, killed in reprisals after an attack missed against the former president in 1982.
The A death penalty also be marked against a half-brother of Saddam Hussein, Barzan Al-Tikriti, former owner of the information.
The former vice-president, Taha Yassin Ramadan, were condemned to the prison with life.