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FACTBOX-Sentences in trial of Saddam Hussein
05 Nov 2006 16:19:36 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Iraq in turmoil

(Adds verdicts were unanimous)

Nov 5 (Reuters) - Following are the sentences handed down on Sunday to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and six co-defendants who were charged in connection with the killing and torture of hundreds of Shi'ite villagers after a 1982 assassination attempt in Dujail. An eighth defendant was freed.

The chief judge said all the verdicts and sentences were given unanimously by the five judges in the case.

* SADDAM HUSSEIN:

- DEATH BY HANGING for wilful killing

- 10 YEARS for deportation/forcible transfer of population

- 10 YEARS for imprisonment or other severe deprivation of liberty violating norms of international law

- SEVEN YEARS for torture

- ACQUITTED of charges relating to enforced disappearance of persons

- SEVEN YEARS for other inhumane acts of similar nature

* TAHA YASSIN RAMADAN:

- LIFE IN PRISON for wilful killing

- 10 YEARS for deportation/forcible transfer of population

- 10 YEARS for imprisonment or other severe deprivation of liberty violating norms of international law

- SEVEN YEARS for torture

- ACQUITTED of charges relating to enforced disappearance of persons

- SEVEN YEARS for other inhumane acts of similar nature

* BARZAN IBRAHIM AL-TIKRITI:

- DEATH BY HANGING for wilful killing

- 10 YEARS for deportation/forcible transfer of population

- 10 YEARS for imprisonment or other severe deprivation of liberty violating norms of international law

- SEVEN YEARS for torture

- ACQUITTED of charges relating to enforced disappearance of persons

- SEVEN YEARS for other inhumane acts of similar nature

* AWAD HAMED AL-BANDER:

- DEATH BY HANGING for wilful killing

* ABDULLAH KATHIM RUWAID, ALI DAYIH ALI AND MIZHIR ABDULLAH KATHIM RUWAID:

- 15 YEARS for wilful killing

- 10 YEARS for deportation/forcible transfer of population

- 10 YEARS for imprisonment or other severe deprivation of liberty violating norms of international law

- SEVEN YEARS for torture

- ACQUITTED of charges relating to enforced disappearance of persons

- SEVEN YEARS for other inhumane acts of similar nature

The terms are to be served concurrently.

* MOHAMMED AZAWI ALI

- RELEASED because of insufficient evidence, after prosecutors recommended that all charges be dropped.


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