Dara Nur al-Din is an Iraqi judge and politician and Minister of Justice since February 2008.

A Sunni Kurd, Alzin was a judge who ruled that an edict of Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...

's government which allowed confiscation of land without proper compensation was unconstitutional. He was sentenced to several years in prison, but only served eight months of his sentence in the Abu Ghraib

Abu Ghraib

The city of Abu Ghraib in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq is located just west of Baghdad's city center, or northwest of Baghdad International Airport. It has a population of 189,000. The old road to Jordan passes through Abu Ghraib...

 prison before being released in October 2002.

He was appointed to the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States

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's 2003 invasion of Iraq

2003 invasion of Iraq

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.

In February 2008 he was appointed the Minister of Justice in the Al-Maliki government.