Former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz and Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as 'Chemical Ali', have been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
They were convicted in connection with the execution of dozens of traders for breaking state price controls in 1992.
Earlier, the Iraqi High Tribunal acquitted Tareq Aziz, 73, long regarded as Saddam Hussein's spokesman to the outside world, on charges relating to the deaths of dozens of Shias in 1999 in the Sadr City district of Baghdad and in the central shrine city of Najaf.
Two of Saddam's half-brothers - Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan and Sabawi Ibrahim - were sentenced to death yesterday for the 1992 murders of 42 Baghdad traders accused of racketeering, and the ex-president's secretary was given life in jail.
A senior Baath party ruling council member was imprisoned for 15 years and a former finance minister for six years but an ex-governor of the central bank was acquitted.
Majid has already been sentenced to death three times in other trials, notably for the use of poison gas to kill Kurdish villagers during the 1988 Anfal campaign.
It was that event that earned him his nickname.
