Iraqi court sentences Saddam's vice president to death by hanging

    BAGHDAD, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi High Criminal Court sentenced Taha Yassin Ramadan, vice president of the ousted leader Saddam Hussin, to death by hanging for crimes against humanity for his role in the Dujail case. 

    Judge Ali al-Kahachi, who replaced Chief Judge Raouf Rashid Abdul Rahman, sentenced Ramadan to death for his role in the killing of 148 Shiite men in the northern Iraqi town of Dujail after a failed assassination attempt against Saddam.

    "In the name of the people the court decided to sentence the convicted, Taha Yassin Ramadan, to death by hanging for committing the crime of willful killing as a crime against humanity," Kahachi said. Full Story

Iraqi court postpones decision for fate of ex-VP to Feb. 12

    BAGHDAD, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- An Iraqi court adjourned its decision on Thursday whether to accept the recommendation of an appeal court to execute Saddam Hussein's codefendant, former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan, adjourned until Feb. 12.

Former Iraqi vice president to be sentenced to death

    BEIJING, Jan. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan will be sentenced to death within five weeks after an appeals court ruled his previous sentence of life in prison was too lenient, media reported Thursday quoting a spokesman for the Iraqi High Tribunal.

Saddam's co-defendants hanged

    BAGHDAD, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Saddam Hussein's two co-defendants, his half brother and the former chief of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, were hanged before dawn on Monday, CNN reported.

    Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam's half brother, and Awad Hamed al-Bandarhad been found guilty along with Saddam of the killing of nearly 150 Shiites in Dujail village, some 60 km north of Baghdad, following a 1982 assassination attempt on the former leader.