33344890 Tariq Aziz, asked him to execute quickly
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, Tariq Aziz, who was sentenced to death by a court, asked the acting Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to speed up execution. As reported in Thursday, August 18, Agence France-Presse, with reference to a lawyer of the former official, Aziz has expressed a desire at the deteriorating state of health. According to the lawyer Badie Aref (Badie Aref), Aziz, well fed in prison, but an elderly man suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure, stomach ulcers, as well as heart problems and prostate. In January 2010, Tariq Aziz suffered a massive stroke and lost the ability to speak. Earlier, Aziz to release from prison repeatedly asked relatives of the former deputy prime minister. Faithful ally of Saddam, Tariq Aziz, a Christian by religion, was sentenced to death in October 2010 on charges of premeditated murder and crimes against humanity. The request for clemency was made by Aziz, the Vatican, the European Union and several Western states. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said that he would not sign the order for execution. In April 2011 the court acquitted Tariq Aziz for the murder in 1994 of one of the political opponents of Saddam Hussein. Results from March 2009 to Aziz rendered four convictions, including one – death. Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was hanged in 2006.
