GERMANY. MERKEL PRAISES SADDAM JUDGEMENT, UNDERLINES EU AGAINST DEATH PENALTY
German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed the court judgement of Saddam Hussein...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed the court judgement of Saddam Hussein, but said that the European Union had "a scepticism and a rejection on principle of the death penalty", the sentence handed to the former Iraqi president.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: AFP, 05/11/2006)
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