IRAQ. SADDAM APPEALS CONTROVERSIAL DEATH SENTENCE

lawyers for Saddam Hussein and two former aides sentenced to death lodged appeals, the Iraqi prosecutor said, following a trial slammed by some rights experts as unfair and fundamentally flawed.
“Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and two others sentenced to death came to the court today and presented their appeals,” chief prosecutor Jaafar Al Moussawi told Reuters.
Saddam was sentenced to hang on November 5 for crimes against humanity over the killings of 148 Shias from the town of Dujail after he escaped assassination there in 1982. His half-brother Barzan Al Tikriti and former judge Awad Al Bander also received the death penalty for their part in the killing, torturing and deporting of hundreds of Dujailis.