25.06.2007 - Source: Amnesty International

3 senior officials under government of Saddam Hussein sentenced to death for their roles in so-called Anfal campaign of 1988 which led to deaths of some 180,000 Iraqi Kurds ("Urgent Action 160/07 [MDE 14/032/2007]") [ID 20467]

"Between February and August 1988, tens of thousands of Iraqi Kurds were killed or subjected to enforced disappearance when the Iraqi government implemented a programme of destruction of towns and villages all over Iraqi Kurdistan. Thousands of towns and villages were razed to the ground, and decrees were issued authorising the security forces to execute anyone attempting to return to them. According to some Kurdish estimates, between 150,000 and 180,000 people disappeared during the campaign. Some 5,000 people were killed when the Kurdish town of Halabja was attacked with chemical bombs in March 1988."

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06.2007 - Source: Freedom House

Trials of Saddam Hussein and several other former senior Iraqi officials ("Freedom in the World 2007") [ID 20732]

"The trials of Saddam Hussein and several other former senior Iraqi officials culminated in 2006. The al Dujail trial concluded in July 2006 with a verdict delivered on November 5. Saddam Hussein and six other defendants were found guilty of crimes against humanity in the arbitrary killing and displacement from the town of Dujail in 1982. Hussein and two others were sentenced to death by hanging. Another trial opened in August 2006 in which Hussein and six other defendants faced charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes stemming from the Anfal campaign against the Kurdish population in northern Iraq, which may have resulted in the death of up to 100,000 Kurds. Although the verdict handed down for the Dujail trial was appealed, Iraq’s Supreme Court confirmed the original decision, and Saddam was executed on December 30, 2006, by hanging. [...]

Persons accused of committing war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity fall under the jurisdiction of the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT), previously known as the Iraq Special Tribunal. The IHT statute does not explicitly require that guilt be proven beyond a reasonable doubt and lacks adequate safeguards against self-incrimination. Numerous irregularities were noted by international observers in the al Dujail trial, which culminated in the execution by hanging of Saddam Hussein in December 2006."

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17.01.2007 - Source: Guardian

One of Saddam Hussein's henchmen is accidentally decapitated on the gallows at his execution ("Sunni anger at Saddam henchmen execution") [ID 18636]

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16.01.2007 - Source: BBC News

UN and EU leaders criticise the executions in Baghdad of 2 of Saddam Hussein's top aides ("Criticism of Iraq hangings grows") [ID 18645]

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15.01.2007 - Source: Guardian

Former dicator's half brother and former head of Iraq's revolutionary court hanged before dawn, two weeks and two days after his own execution ("Saddam's top aides hanged") [ID 18646]

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04.01.2007 - Source: Amnesty International

Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, ‘Awad Hamad al-Bandar al-Sa’dun and former vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadhan at risk of imminent execution ("Urgent Action 02/07 [MDE 14/001/2007]") [ID 20193]

"Since the reintroduction of the death penalty in Iraq in August 2004, scores of people have been sentenced to death and there has been a rapid rise in the number of executions, with at least 65 people put to death in 2006 alone, many of them after trials which may have been unfair."

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30.12.2006 - Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Saddam Hussein executed ("Saddam Hussein Executed") [ID 18071]

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27.12.2006 - Source: BBC News

Mixed reactions to the death sentence against Saddam Hussein ("Mixed reactions to Saddam verdict") [ID 18072]

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26.12.2006 - Source: Human Rights Watch

Death sentence against Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity ("Reverse Decision to Execute Saddam") [ID 18059]

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20.11.2006 - Source: Human Rights Watch

According to report by HRW, trial of Saddam Hussein and 7 other defendants before Iraqi High Tribunal for crimes against humanity marred by so many procedural and substantive flaws that verdict is unsound ("Dujail Trial Fundamentally Flawed") [ID 18043]

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