He was the first judge of the Iraqi High Criminal Court to try former regime leaders. He was born in 1957 in #Sulaymaniyah# , where he completed his primary, secondary and high school education. He graduated from the College of Law at Baghdad University in 1980 and worked as an assistant judge. In 1992, he graduated from the Supreme Judicial Institute in Baghdad and worked as a lawyer for three years, He later served as an investigating judge, a preliminary court judge, a criminal court president, and a deputy president of the Court of Appeal in Sulaymaniyah. He was finally elected by the Kurdistan Regional Government's Ministry of Justice and the Council of Ministers as one of the five judges of the Iraqi High Criminal Court. and after overseeing seven open hearings a secret hearing of the trial of the perpetrators of the Dujail problem in January 2007 he resigned.[1]