Khalid al-Ansari

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.

Khalid al-Ansari
Minister of Justice (Syria)
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

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]