Awad Hamed al-Bandar | |
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عواد حمد بندر السعدون | |
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Head of the Revolutionary Court for Dujail | |
Personal details | |
Born | عواد حمد بندر السعدون 2 January 1945 Basra, Kingdom of Iraq |
Died | 15 January 2007 Camp Justice, Kadhimiya, Baghdad, Iraq | (aged 62)
Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
Occupation | Judge |
Awad Hamad al-Bandar (Arabic: عواد حمد البندر السعدون, romanized: ʿAwād Ḥamad al-Bandar al-Saʿdūn; (2 January 1945 – 15 January 2007) was an Iraqi chief judge under Saddam Hussein's presidency. He was a member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and 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 8 July 1982.