Awad Hamed al-Bandar

Politician, Deceased Person

1945 – 2007

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Who was Awad Hamed al-Bandar?

Awad Hamad al-Bandar was an Iraqi chief judge under Saddam Hussein's presidency. He was the head of the Revolutionary Court which issued death sentences against 143 Dujail residents, in the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on the president on July 8, 1982. At the Al-Dujail trial the Iraqi Special Tribunal tried al-Bandar for crimes against humanity for issuing the death sentences. On November 5, 2006, al-Bandar was sentenced to death by hanging along with co-defendants Hussein and Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, who was beheaded as a result of the hanging.

He was a member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.

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Born
Jan 2, 1945
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Died
Jan 15, 2007
Baghdad

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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