Iraq: Saddam Hussein’s daughter jailed for 7 years for mobilizing the banned party

Canada Global(Web News) Raghad, the eldest daughter of Iraq’s former president Saddam Hussein, was sentenced to 7 years in prison.

According to the World News Agency, a trial was held in the criminal court in Iraq against the daughter of former President Saddam Hussein on the charge of mobilizing her father’s banned party “Baath Party”.

Raghad Hussain was accused of propagating the ideas of his father’s party, the Baath Party, in an interview given to the media in 2021 and also publicizing these interviews on social media, even though the Baath Party had been banned in 2003.

In its ruling, the court wrote that the Baath Party was banned after Article 9 of a law passed by the Iraqi parliament in 2016 prohibiting institutions, parties, racist, terrorist and takfiri activities.

The court said that Raghad Hussain violated the law on which he was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment, Raghad Hussain was sentenced in his absence. 

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