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A Muslim climbed up of a transmission tower to protest the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Mohammad Chand was brought down with the help of a crane after climbing to the middle of the high voltage transmisssion tower. "Today we were supposed to observe a Black Day, and so, I climbed the tower as a mark of protest," Chand said. Muslims across the country have been holding protests and demonstrations since the day Saddam was executed. Saddam Hussein was hanged on December 30, 2006. The former Iraqi President, ousted in April 2003 by a US-led invasion, was convicted in November for the killings of 148 Shi'ite villagers from Dujail after a failed assassination bid in 1982. An appeals court upheld the death penalty and the government rushed through the procedures to hang him by the end of the year and before the Eid al-Adha holiday, coinciding with the Haj pilgrimage to Mecca. However, Rizkar Mohammed Amin, who had presided over Saddam's trial earlier said that the latter's execution was illegal as it was carried out during the Eid al-Adha festival period. Amin, who was the first chief judge to preside over Saddam's trial, said Iraqi law banned executions during the festival.
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