Baghdad: Iraq’s fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi has been sentenced to death by hanging by a country’s court on Sunday, Abdul-Sattar al-Birqdar, a spokesman for the judiciary council said.
“The high criminal court issued a death sentence by hanging against Tareq al-Hashemi after he was convicted,” Reuters quoted him as saying.
Hashemi fled the country earlier this year after authorities sought his arrest. His case sparked a political crisis in the country’s power-sharing government among Sunni, Shi’ite and Kurdish political blocs.
Hashemi accused Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of conducting a political witch-hunt against Sunni opponents, but the government said it was a judicial case. Hashemi is currently in Turkey.
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