What's going on: Iraqi court sentences former Saddam top aide Tariq Aziz to death

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Hadi Mizban / The Associated PressTariq Aziz, former Iraqi foreign minister and deputy prime minister speaks to the Associated Press Sept. 5 in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi state TV says former Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz has been sentenced to death for persecuting Shiite political parties during Saddam Hussein's regime.

From The New York Times:

BAGHDAD — Tariq Aziz, a former top aide to Saddam Hussein, was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on Tuesday for crimes against members of rival Shiite political parties.

The ruling was the latest in a series of criminal cases against Mr. Aziz, 74, who became the bespectacled face of Mr. Hussein’s government during and before the Persian Gulf war of 1991 after Iraq’s invasion of oil-rich Kuwait.

In March 2009, Mr. Aziz was sentenced to 15 years in prison for crimes against humanity, and was acquitted earlier that year on charges of ordering a 1999 crackdown against Shiite protesters after a revered Shiite cleric was assassinated.

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