Hashim Abderrahman al-Shibli (
Arabic
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Baghdad
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who was the
Iraq
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i Justice Minister from 2006 to 2007 in the
government
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of
Nouri al-Maliki
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. A
Sunni Arab
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, he was elected to the
National Assembly of Iraq
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in
December 2005 on the secular
Iraqi National List
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Prior to the December ...
coalition.
In 2005 he was nominated to the post of Human Rights Minister in the
Iraqi Transitional Government
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which he turned down, saying he wasn't consulted before being nominated. Prior to that he had been the Minister of Justice in the
Iraqi Governing Council
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. A lawyer and
Sunni Muslim, al-Shibli is a member of the newly formed
National Democratic Party (Iraq)
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.
Shibli is also the chairman of the government committee charged with implementing the articles of the
Constitution of Iraq that relate to
Kirkuk's status.
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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.
He resigned from his post at March 31, 2007, citing political differences with the Prime Minister al-Maliki over the ]execution of Saddam Hussein
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and with the Iraqi National List over the future of Kirkuk.Iraq's justice minister resigns
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