Latif Nassif Jassem, Minister of Culture and Information in the regime of the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, died at the age of 80 in a Baghdad hospital after a struggle with illness.
Basem, the son of the former minister, mourned - through his Facebook account - his father, who passed away this morning in the hospital in Baghdad, and thanked the Director of Baghdad Health - Al-Karkh and the medical and nursing staff at Al-Karkh Republican Hospital and Al-Karama Hospital for their efforts during his father's stay in the hospital.
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful ((O you calm soul, return to your Lord satisfied and content, so enter my servants and enter my heaven)).
Posted by Bassem Latif Nassif Jassim on Monday, 30 August 2021
We extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to His Excellency Dr. Jasib Al-Hijami, Director of Health of Baghdad / Al-Karkh, and to all the medical staff…
Posted by Basem Latif Nassif Jassim on Friday, 27 August 2021
Jassem had made an appeal a few days ago to the Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, to save his father, who is being held in prison, and to send him to the hospital because he had fainted days ago.
Hours after the appeal, the son of the leader in the former Iraqi regime returned and published a post on his Facebook account, in which he thanked Al-Kazemi for his response to the appeal, and the direction to check on his father's health.
We extend our sincere thanks, appreciation and gratitude to His Excellency Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi for his order to stand up and follow up on the health status…
Posted by Bassem Latif Nassif Jassim on Tuesday, 24 August 2021
Raghad Saddam Hussein mourned the deceased minister and wrote on her Twitter account, "I mourn the death of my father's companion, Latif Nassif Jassim, asking God to have mercy on him and dwell in his vast gardens and inspire his family and all his lovers patience and solace. We belong to God and to Him we shall return."
I mourn the death of my father's companion, the martyr, Professor #Latif_Nasif_Jassem, asking God to have mercy on him and dwell in his vast gardens and inspire his family and all his lovers patience and solace, and we belong to God and to Him we shall return.
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- Raghad Saddam Hussein (@RghadSaddam) August 30, 2021
Latif Nassif Jassem held the position of Director of Radio and Television in Iraq in 1974, and also held ministerial positions, including agriculture, culture and media, in addition to membership in the Revolutionary Command Council during the era of the Baath Party.
And the United States included his name on the list of the most wanted elements of the Iraqi regime in sequence 18, and he was arrested in 2003 after the American invasion of Iraq, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009.