Hisham Al Shaar

Al Shaar was born in Damascus in 1958.^[1] He is a judge by profession.^[2] As of 2014 he was chief of the Syrian Higher Judicial Committee for Elections.^[3] In a cabinet reshuffle dated March 2017 he was appointed justice minister replacing Najm Hamad Al Ahmad in the post.^[4] Al Shaar is one of the Syrian politicians who were sanctioned by the European Union in 2017 and 2020.^[1][5]