Iraq sentences Saddam Hussein’s daughter for promoting political party

A Baghdad court on Sunday sentenced in absentia the exiled daughter of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to seven years in prison for “promoting” her father’s outlawed Baath party. The party was dissolved and banned after Hussein was toppled during the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. She was found guilty of the crime of “promoting the activities of the banned Baath party.” Hussein lives in Jordan, along with her sister Rana. Their brothers, Uday and Qusay, were killed by the US army in Mosul in 2003.