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Iraq's fugitive VP sentenced to hang
September 09, 2012
AFP reports: Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareqal-Hashemi, a top critic of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, was convicted of murder today and sentenced to death by hanging, in a decision likely to renew political tensions.
Hashemi, tried in absentia, has dismissed all charges against him as politically motivated. A Baghdad court also tried in absentia his secretary and son-in-law Ahmed Qahtan and sentenced him to death.