"The Iraqi judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death has fled Iraq and sought asylum in the UK.
Al Jazeera's correspondent in London quoted British official sources as saying on Friday that Raouf Abdel-Rahman, a member of Iraq's Kurdish minority, has requested political asylum in Britain with his family.
Rahman headed the Supreme Iraq Criminal Tribunal that heard Saddam's genocide trial and found the former Iraqi president guilty, leading to his execution.
Saddam was accused of killing more than a hundred Shia in the village of Dujail following a failed assassination attempt on him.
Besides sending Saddam to the gallows, Rahman had also sentenced two other top Saddam aides to death in the same trial.
The two were Saddam's half brother and former intelligence chief, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court.
They were found guilty along with Saddam of involvement in the Dujail killings in 1982."
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