Year and place of birth: 1947, Halabja.
Education: Graduated from the College of Law, Baghdad University in 1963.
In 1970, he became a reserve member of the Iraqi Bar Association.
From 1984 to 1991 he was a coach of the Bar Association in Sulaymaniyah.
He was a member of the founding committee of the Kurdistan Human Rights Organization, the founding committee of the Kurdistan Lawyers Union and the Halabja Revival Association.
In 1997, he became a judge in the Erbil court.
In 2004, after the enactment of the law of the Supreme Criminal Court to try the leaders of the Ba'ath regime, he was appointed as a member of the Criminal Court.
He was the head of the first chamber of the Criminal Court in Baghdad in the cases of Dujail, businessmen, Barzanis, Failis and killing of political opponents.
He is married.
He was appointed Minister of Justice in the sixth cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government.[1]