Saddam's judge seeks asylum
10/03/2007 17:39  - (SA)  

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Dubai - The Iraqi judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death for crimes against humanity has fled to Britain where he is seeking political asylum, the Arabic news channel Al-Jazeera reported Friday.

Presiding judge Rauf Rasheed Abdel Rahman has applied for asylum for both himself and his family in the past few days, the Doha-based channel said citing a British official it did not name.

Al-Jazeera's London correspondent said Abdel Rahman had been in Britain since December on a tourist visa.

A spokesperson for Britain's interior ministry declined to comment on the case.

"We won't comment on individual cases. We won't confirm or deny whether someone has claimed asylum in the UK," she said.

Saddam was executed on December 30 after being sentenced to death on November 5 for crimes against humanity in the murder of 148 Shi'ite civilians from the town of Dujail, north of Baghdad, in the 1980s.

- AFP

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