BAGHDAD, Feb 12: Taha Yassin Ramadan, who served as vice-president to executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, was sentenced to death on Monday for crimes against humanity.

“The condemned Taha Yassin Ramadan shall be sentenced to hanging until death for committing deliberate killing crimes,” judge Ali Al Kahachi said.

It followed a review by the Iraqi High Tribunal of earlier life sentence imposed on Ramadan over the killing of 148 Shias from the village of Dujail in 1982.—AFP