Hashim Abderrahman al-Shibli

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Hashim Abderrahman al-Shibli (هاشم عبد الرحمن الشبلي transliteration: Hāshim ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ash-Shiblī) is the Iraqi Justice Minister in the government of Nouri al-Maliki. A Sunni Arab, he was elected to the National Assembly of Iraq in December 2005 on the secular Iraqi National List coalition. He was nominated to the post of Human Rights Minister in the Iraqi Transitional Government which he turned down, saying he wasn't consulted before being nominated. He was the Minister of Justice in the Iraqi Governing Council. A lawyer and Sunni Muslim, al-Shibli is a member of the newly formed National Democratic Party (Iraq).

Following the leaking of a videotape of Saddam Hussein's execution, with the detention on January 3, 2007 of a guard under al-Shibli's ministry, suspicions have arisen that his ministry may have intended to inflame sectarian tensions.

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• BBC News (2003). Iraq's post-war cabinet. Retrieved on 2006-02-24.
• BBC News (2006). Who's who in Iraq's new cabinet. Retrieved on 2006-05-23.
• CNN (2007). More arrests expected from Hussein execution video. Retrieved on 2007-01-03.

Preceded by Coalition Provisional Authority

Minister of Justice September 2003–June 2004

Succeeded by Malik Dohan al-Hassan