Hadi Saleh was an Iraqi trade unionist and was International Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions. Saleh had been involved in Iraqi trade unions for much of his adult life, and was sentenced to death in 1969 because of his involvement in independent unions after the 1968 Ba'ath coup. He served five years in jail before the sentence was commuted, and he fled to Sweden, where he lived as a refugee until after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Wikipedia
These two extremes, the promethean leap of the Iraqi workers' movement and the subsequent martyrdom of Fahd, are present in the hope and tragedy of Hadi Saleh's life and death. www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1394097,00.html
Hadi Saleh, who was tortured and killed by suspected insurgents in Baghdad, was one of the best-known faces of the opposition to the deposed Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein in left-wing gatherings in the West. www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1474705,00.html
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Hadi Saleh. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadi_Saleh
