Court Upholds Death Penalty For ‘Chemical Ali’
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Yesterday, an appeals court upheld death sentences imposed against Ali Hassan al-Majid, or “Chemical Ali,” and two other Saddam lieutenants convicted of crimes against humanity for their roles a massacre of Kurds in the late 1980s. Under Iraqi law, they must now be hanged within the next 30 days. In addition to Mr. Majid, the Iraqi High Tribunal upheld death sentences of a former defense minister, Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai, and a former deputy director of operations for the Iraqi armed forces, Hussein Rashid Mohammed.
