Established in 1920, the Ministry of Justice of

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

(MoJ) is the

federal government A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central federal government (federalism). In a federation, the self-governin ...

ministry concerned with judicial and prosecutorial training, publishing the Official Gazette, notaries public, deeds and records, and since 5 June 2004, prisons. In 2007, the ministry possessed a staff of 13,619. Also, 130 courthouses and headquarters are located at the Ministry of Justice Building.

List of ministers

* Naji al-Suwaydi (1920-1922) *'Abd al-Muhsin al Sa'dun (1922-1923) *

Ahmed Mahmoud Al-Fakhry Ahmed Mahmoud Al-Fakhry (1863–1926) is an Iraqi writer and poet from Mosul. He is the son of Al-Sayed Mahmoud, and the grandson of Al-Sayed Muhammad Amin Al-Fakhry. He was born in Mosul and was educated by Abdul-Wahab Al-Jawadi, and was trained ...

(1923-1924) * Rashid Ali al-Gaylani (1924-1925) *Daud al-Haidari (1926–1929) *Abdul Aziz-al-Qassab (1929) * Jamal Baban (1930–1932) * Muhammed Zaki (1933) *

Jamal Baban Jamal Baban was an Iraqi lawyer and politician who held ministerial positions during the monarchy in Iraq, born in 1893 and died in 1965. Life He was assigned to occupy the position of Minister of Justice several times. He first held the positio ...

(1933–1934) *Muhammed Zaki (1935–1936) *Rashid 'Ali al-Kaylani (1935–1936) * 'Ali Mahmud al-Shaykh'Ali (1936–1937) *

Salih Jabr Sayyid Salih Jabr ( ar, سيد صالح جبر; 1896–1957) was an Iraqi statesman who served as the prime minister of Iraq from March 1947 to January 1948. He was the first Shi'ite to become prime minister. In the 1930s and 1940s, Salih attend ...

(1936-1937) *Mustafa al-'Umari (1937-1938) *Mahmud Subhi al-Daftari (1940) *

Naji Shawkat Muhammad Naji Shawkat Bey ( ar, ناجي شوكت) (May 26, 1891 – May 11, 1980) was an Iraqi politician who served as the prime minister of Iraq under King Faisal I. Early life Muhammad Naji Shawkat was born to an Arabized family of Georg ...

(1940-1941) *Yunis al-Sab'awi (1941) *Umar Nadhmi (1941) *'Ali Mahmud (1941) *Ibrahim Kemal (1941) * Jafar Himandi (1941) * Sadiq al-Bassam (1941-1942) * Daud al-Haidari (1942–1943) * Ahmad Muhktar Baban (1943–1946) * Muhammed Hasan Kubba (1946) * Umar Nadhmi (1946–1947) *Jamal Baban (1947–1948) *Najib al-Rawi (1948) *Muhammed Hasan Kubba (1948–1949) *Hasan Sami Tatar (1950-1952) *Jamal Baban (1952) *'Abd al-Majid al-Qassab (1952-1953) *Ahmad Mukhtar Baban (1953) *Jamil al-Urfali (1953-1954) *

Fakhri al-Tabaqchali Muhammad Fakhri son of Muhammad Nafi son of Muhammad Saeed al-Tabaqchali son of Muhammad Amin Effendi (born 1900 in Baghdad, died 1985), the teacher is an Iraqi judge and politician who held various administrative positions such as the position of ...

(1954) *

Muhammed Ali Mahmud Muhammed Ali Mahmud is an Iraqi politician who held various ministerial positions during the monarchy in Iraq. Career He worked as a clerk for the Iraqi Law School after it reopened in 1919, and Ibrahim Al-Waidh succeeded him after graduating ...

(1954) *Abdul Jabbar al-Tukrali (1955-1957) *Abdul Rasul al-Khalisi (1957–1958) *Jamil 'Abd al-Wahhab (1958) *Mustafa Ali (1958–1961) *Rashid Mahmud (1961–1962) *Mahdi al-Dawlai (1963) *'Abd al-Sattar 'Ali al-Husayn (1963–1965) *Muşliḩ an-Naqshbandḯ (1966–1968) *Mahdi al-Dawlai (1968–1969) *Aziz Sharif (1969-1972) *Husayn Muhammed Rida al-Safi (1972–1974) *Mundhir al-Shawi (1974–1988) *Akram 'Abd al-Qadir 'Ali (1988-1992) *Shabib Lazim al-Maliki (1993-2000) *Mundhir al-Shawi (2000-2003) *

Hashim Abderrahman al-Shibli Hashim Abderrahman al-Shibli (Arabic: ) is an Iraqi politician from Baghdad who was the Iraqi Justice Minister from 2006 to 2007 in the government of Nouri al-Maliki. A Sunni Arab, he was elected to the National Assembly of Iraq in December 2005 o ...

(2003-2004) *

Malik Dohan al-Hassan Malik Dohan al-Hassan ( ar, مالك دوهان الحسن; 1 July 1919 – 23 May 2021) was an Iraqi politician and academician, who served as Minister of Culture and Information in 1967, headed the Iraqi Bar Association in 2003, and was the Min ...

(2004–2005) *

Abdel Hussein Shandal Abdel Hussein Shandal is an Iraqi politician who was the Justice Minister in the Iraqi Transitional Government. For the December 2005 elections he joined with Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress The Iraqi National Congress (INC; Arabic: ا ...

(May 3, 2005 – May 20, 2006) *

(May 20, 2006 – March 31, 2007) *

Safa al-Safi Safa al-Din (also Safauddin) Mohammed al-Safi is an Iraqi politician and former Justice Minister who is currently Minister of State for the Council of Representatives. Since May 2006 he has also been Minister of State for Council of Representativ ...

(March 31, 2007 – February 19, 2009) (Acting) *

Dara Nur al-Din Dara Nur al-Din is an Iraqi judge and politician who served as the Minister of Justice from February 2008 to December 2010.

(February 19, 2009 – December 21, 2010) * Hassan al-Shimari (December 21, 2010 – 2016) *

Haidar Al Zamily Haidar Nateq Jasim Al Zamili (born in Baghdad, 1975) ( ar, حيدر الزاملي; ) is an Iraqi politician and Iraqi Minister of Justice. He is a candidate for the Islamic Virtue Party. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of ...

(2016?-Present)

Iraqi Correctional Service

Iraqi Correctional Service is a sub-agency of the MoJ that is responsible for prisons in Iraq and headed by a Director General (Juma'a Hussein Zamil). Prior to 2004, various ministries (Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (juvenile detention facilities)) and Kurdish Regional Government were charged with prions across Iraq. ICS handles 37,681 prisoners (2009) in various facilities in the country.

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Justice Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, with the interpretation of what then constitutes "deserving" being impacted upon by numerous fields, with many differing viewpoints and perspective ...

Law enforcement in Iraq

List of ministers

Iraqi Correctional Service

See also

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