The Iraqi judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death for crimes against humanity has fled to Britain where he is seeking political asylum, Al Jazeera has reported. Presiding judge Rauf Rasheed Abdel Rahman has applied for asylum for both himself and his family in the past few days, the Doha-based channel said citing a British official it did not name. The channel's London correspondent said Abdel Rahman had been in Britain since December on a tourist visa. A spokeswoman for Britain's Interior Ministry declined to comment on the case. "We won't comment on individual cases. We won't confirm or deny whether someone has claimed asylum in the UK," she said.