Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman

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Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman (Arabic: رؤوف رشيد عبد الرحمن) was the replacement chief judge of the Iraqi Special Tribunal's Al-Dujail trial of Saddam Hussein in 2006.

Rahman is an ethnic Kurd from Halabja, the site of the 1988 Halabja poison gas attack. He replaced Rizgar Mohammed Amin as chief judge on 23 January 2006. Amin had resigned after being criticised in the Iraqi media for appearing "too soft" on the defendants by allowing them to speak aloud in court without being recognized.

In December 2006, al-Rahman took his family to Britain on a travel visa, and three months later applied for asylum.[[1]]

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• Hussein, Co-Defendants Watch Their Trial on TV, washingtonpost.com 3 February 2006
• Saddam boycotts trial, aljazeera.net 1 February 2006
• Judge orders Saddam ejected from court, Guardian Unlimited 30 January 2006
• The new chief judge in Saddam trial, aljazeera.net 29 January 2006
• Iraq court names new Saddam judge, BBC News 23 January 2006