Khalid al-Ansari

Khalid al-Ansari
Minister of Justice
In office
c. 1990[1] – c. 1993[2]
President Hafez al-Assad
Prime Minister Mahmoud Zuabi
Preceded by Khalid Malki (or a subsequent officeholder)
Succeeded by Abdulla Tulba

Khalid al-Ansari was a cabinet minister and judge in Syria. He served as justice minister in Hafez al-Assad's cabinet in the early 1990s.

Public career

Khalid al-Ansari served on Syria's court of economic security prior to his appointment to cabinet.

In 1990, while serving as justice minister, he received a request from the government of East Germany for the extradition of Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, who was widely believed to be living in Syria under an assumed name.[3]

Criticism

Syrian Human Rights Association president Muhanad Alhansi issued a paper in 2011 entitled, "A Study on the independence of the legal profession in Syria," in which he described al-Ansari as having set draconian legal precedents as a judge and as having interfered with the court of economic security's independence while in cabinet.

Alhansi's article also describes al-Ansari as deceased.[4]

References

  1. ↑ al-Ansari is listed as Syria's justice minister in "EAST BERLIN GIVES SYRIA EXTRADITION REQUEST FOR NAZI CRIMINAL," Reuters News, 17 May 1990.
  2. ↑ al-Ansari is listed as Syria's justice minister in The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who editions of 1991 and 1992, but not 1993/94. See The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who (1991), Reed Information Services Ltd., 1991, p. 555; The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who (1992), Reed Information Services Ltd., 1992, p. 561; and The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who (1993–94), Reed Information Services Ltd., 1993, p. 561. Editions from the late 1980s and 1990 do not include up-to-date listings.
  3. ↑ "EAST BERLIN GIVES SYRIA EXTRADITION REQUEST FOR NAZI CRIMINAL," Reuters News, 17 May 1990.
  4. ↑ Muhanad Alhansi, "A Study on the independence of the legal profession in Syria," Paris, 2011.