Ayatollah Sadr

Iraqi court sentences two to death for role in execution of Ayatollah Sadr

An Iraqi criminal court has sentenced two men to death for their involvement in the 1980 execution of prominent Shia cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister, Bint al-Huda, during the brutal crackdown by Saddam Hussein’s regime on political and religious dissent.