Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman

Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman

Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman ( _ar. رؤوف رشيد عبد الرحمن) was the replacement chief judge of the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal's Al-Dujail trial of Saddam Hussein in 2006.

Rahman is an ethnic Kurd from Halabja, the site of the 1988 Halabja poison gas attack. He replaced Rizgar Mohammed Amin as chief judge on 23 January 2006. Amin had resigned after being criticised in the Iraqi media for appearing "too soft" on the defendants by allowing them to speak aloud in court without being recognized.

After Amin's resignation, Rahman headed the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal during the rest of the trial of Saddam Hussein for genocide, and when it sentenced him to death. He also sentenced to death some of his top aides.

In December 2006, al-Rahman took his family to Britain on a travel visa, and three months later applied for asylum. [cite news | url = http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/clusteredition/en/20070317,thesun-819582147ef26e18aa074b2416b1e649.html | title = Saddam's judge seeks asylum | work = Europe Media Monitor | author = The Sun | date = 2007-05-17 | accessdate = 2008-08-13] cite news | url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1527418.ece | title = Judge who sentenced Saddam to death seeks asylum in the UK | work = Times | author = Devika Bhat, Richard Ford and Ned Parke | date = 2007-05-16 | accessdate = 2008-08-13]

References

External links

* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/02/AR2006020200262.html Hussein, Co-Defendants Watch Their Trial on TV] , washingtonpost.com 3 February 2006
* [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A5A88B22-87C6-4688-936A-3DBBEA6D9757.htm Saddam boycotts trial] , aljazeera.net 1 February 2006
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1698006,00.html Judge orders Saddam ejected from court] , Guardian Unlimited 30 January 2006
* [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CE873BDF-1595-47CE-A381-EE1D57F8D397.htm The new chief judge in Saddam trial] , aljazeera.net 29 January 2006
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4639488.stm Iraq court names new Saddam judge] , BBC News 23 January 2006


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