The acquittal was on charges of responsibility for a brutal crackdown against Shiite protesters that followed the assassination of a revered cleric, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, in 1999.
The court on Monday convicted Ali Hassan al-Majid, a former Hussein aide known as “Chemical Ali” for ordering poison gas attacks against the Kurds in the 1980s, for his role in the killings for which Mr. Aziz was acquitted. For a third time, he was sentenced to death.
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