Office: | Chief Justice of Afghanistan |
Term Start: | 27 July 2015 |
Term End: | 15 August 2021 |
President: | Ashraf Ghani |
Predecessor: | Abdul Salam Azimi |
Successor: | Abdul Hakim Haqqani |
Office1: | Acting Minister of Justice |
Term Start1: | 20 March 2014 |
Term End1: | 18 April 2015 |
President1: | Hamid Karzai Ashraf Ghani |
Predecessor1: | Habibullah Ghaleb |
Successor1: | Abdul Baseer Anwar |
Office2: | Deputy Minister of Justice for Legal Affairs |
Term Start2: | 2010 |
Term End2: | 2014 |
President2: | Hamid Karzai |
Office3: | Deputy Minister of Justice for Administrative Affairs |
Term Start3: | 2009 |
Term End3: | 2010 |
President3: | Hamid Karzai |
Birth Date: | 1959 |
Birth Place: | Nangahar Province |
Death Place: | Emirates' Humanitarian City, Abu Dhabi |
Nationality: | Afghan |
Alma Mater: | Kabul University (BA) |
Sayed Yousuf Halim (1959 – 17 October 2022) was an Afghan judge. He was chief justice of Afghanistan from 2015 to 2021.
He was born in 1959 in Nangahar Province. He worked for the justice ministry from 1985. He became Deputy Minister of Justice for Administrative Affairs in 2009 and Deputy Minister of Justice for Legal Affairs from 2010 to 2014.[1]
He was appointed acting Justice Minister by President Hamid Karzai in 2014 then Chief Justice by President Ashraf Ghani on 27 July 2015.[2]
He went into exile in August 2021 after the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.[3]
He died in the Emirates' Humanitarian City in Abu Dhabi after a heart attack[4] when he was in a mosque for performing evening prayer.[5]