C raspravitsya Hussein may even this year
The Iraqi appellate court upheld the death sentence of ex-Saddam Hussein Iraq. This was announced to journalists National Security Adviser Mowaffaq Al country. By law, the sentence must be carried out within 30 days after the Court of Appeal ruling.
Court dismissed an appeal against conviction of ex-him at the beginning of November sentence for the massacre of 148 Shiites in the town Ed-Dudzheyl in 1982.
Judge Aref Abdel Razzak Al – Shaheen said that the government will soon designate a day penalty, but to avoid conflict situations place and time will not be announced hanging. Do not excluded that the forgiven sentenced to life yet this year.
News of the imminent execution has been met with approval at the White House. The representative of the Bush administration said that the decision of the Court of Appeal is “an important event in the history of Iraq and” significant achievement “in trying to change the Iraqi tyrant in power for the rule of law”. Meanwhile, human rights activists have expressed doubts about the legality of a full Hussein: Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are confident that the supreme measure to Saddam was the result of political pressure.
