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Iraq announced connected Monday (February 9, 2026) that a high-level information serviceman during the regularisation of Saddam Hussein had been hanged for his engagement successful the 1980 sidesplitting of a salient Shiite cleric.
The National Security Service said that Saadoun Sabri al-Qaisi, who held the fertile of Major General nether Hussein and was arrested past year, was convicted of “grave crimes against humanity,” including the sidesplitting of salient Iraqi Shiite cleric Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr, members of the al-Hakim family, and different civilians.
The bureau did not accidental erstwhile al-Qaisi was executed.
Al-Sadr was a starring professional of Iraq's secular Ba'athist authorities and Hussein, his absorption intensifying pursuing the 1979 Islamic Revolution successful Iran, which heightened Hussein's fears of a Shiite-led uprising successful Iraq.
In 1980, arsenic the authorities moved against Shiite activists, al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda — a spiritual student and activistic who spoke retired against authorities oppression — were arrested. Reports bespeak they were tortured earlier being executed by hanging connected April 8, 1980.
The execution sparked wide outrage astatine the clip and remains a awesome of repression nether Saddam Hussein's rule. Hussein was from Iraq's Sunni minority.
Since the 2003 U.S.-led penetration of Iraq, authorities person pursued erstwhile officials accused of crimes against humanity and abuses against governmental and spiritual opponents. Iraq has faced disapproval from quality rights groups implicit its exertion of the decease penalty.
