Tag el-Sir el-Hibir
Sudanese lawyer
Tag el-Sir el-Hibir (also: Taj, El Sir, Alsir, El Hibir, Alhibir, born in 1948) is a Sudanese lawyer who became the Attorney-General of Sudan on 10 October 2019 during the 2019 Sudanese transition to democracy.
Childhood and education
El-Hibir was born in 1948 in Khilaila, a village north of Khartoum, to a family that runs local Islamic seminaries. He studied law at the University of Khartoum.
Legal experience
El-Hibir worked in the Attorney-General's Office, in the General Attorney Council and the Laws Committee. In the 1970s, el-Hibir was an assistant legal counsel. He helped the Law Commission of Sudan prepare Volume 4 of an updated compendium of Sudanese law. He worked in other lawyers' cabinets and then open his own office.
El-Hibir was a member of an indictment council preparing a case in June 2019 against members of the previous government involved in the 1989 Sudanese coup d'état. Lawyers filed the case in May 2019, shortly after the April 2019 coup d'état that overthrew president Omar al-Bashir and prior to the Transitional Military Council transferring power to a mixed civilian–military Sovereignty Council several months later. The indictment council consisted of el-Hibir, Kamal el-Jazouli and Mohamed el-Hafiz.
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