Tehran, Dec 30 -- Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was hanged in Baghdad Saturday morning.

An Iraqi appeals court upheld the verdict and death sentence on Tuesday.

Saddam was found guilty on November 5 in the killing, torture and other crimes against the Muslim population of the town of Dujail, north of Baghdad, in 1982.

Saddam and his two co-accused -- his half brother and
intelligence chief Barzan Hassan al-Tikriti and revolutionary court judge Awad Ahmed al-Bandar -- were convicted of crimes against humanity by an Iraqi court on November 5.

The two aids were to be hanged along with Saddam but their execution was postponed.