July 30, 2010  Print Email | Former Saddam aide gets 15 years jail
For 'crime against humanity'
Posted by Agencies at 12:32 PM GMT on Mar 11, 2009 | BAGHDAD (REUTERS): The Iraqi High Tribunal today sentenced former deputy PM Tareq Aziz, also the public face of Saddam Hussein's regime, to 15 years jail for his involvement in the execution of dozens of merchants in 1992.
 The court also condemned Saddam's two half-brothers to death by hanging for their involvement in the same case, judged a "crime against humanity".
The traders were executed after being accused of hiking prices of key goods in breach of state price controls when Iraq was facing UN sanctions for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
The verdict came less than two weeks after the same tribunal acquitted Aziz of playing any role in killing and displacing Shi'ite Muslims in 1999, a trial that saw Saddam's cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majeed, receive a third death sentence.
Majeed, also known as "Chemical Ali" for his involvement in using poison gas to kill Kurdish villagers in the 1980s, was also sentenced in the trader case to 15 years.
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