Criminal court says intifada convicts did not appeal rulings

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The convicts in the 1991 al-Intifada al-Shaabaniya case and their lawyers did not ask to appeal the rulings handed down against them by the Supreme Criminal Court, Aref Shahin, the court president, said on Sunday. “The legal period they are allowed to submit requests for an appeal is one month from the date on which the court has given its sentences,” Shahin told IraqiNews.com. The court on December 2 passed its verdicts on the 1991 al-Intifada al-Shaabaniya , or the mid-Shaaban uprising, repression case, sentencing Ali Hassan al-Majid, former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein’s cousin, the former commander of the southern zone and a member of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council, and Ali Abdelghani Abdelghafour Fleih, a member of the dissolved Baath Party regional command – Basra branch, to death by hanging. The court passed life terms against Ibrahim Abdelsattar Mohammed, commander of the 2nd Division in Basra, Iyad Feteih al-Rawi, the commander of the Republican Guard corps, Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti, the assistant chief of staff of the army, and Saber Abdelaziz Hussein al-Dori, the chief of the military intelligence. It passed 15-year imprisonment terms against Sabaawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, the director of the former intelligence agency, Abdelhameed Mahmoud (Abad Hammoud), Walid Hameed Tawfeeq al-Nasser, a former Republican Guard officer, Saadi Tiema Abbas al-Juburi, Sultan Hashim Ahmed, the former minister of defense, and Qays al-Aadhami. The court, however, acquitted Sofian Maher Hassan, the commander of the former Republican Guard’s 2nd Armor Division corps, Lateef Mahal Hammoud al-Sabaawi, a staff brigadier general in the former army and member of the security committee in Basra province, and Iyad Taha Shihab, the secretary general of the former intelligence agency. AmR (S)/SR 1