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{{Short description|Iraqi judge}}
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{{Infobox judge
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 | name        = Rizgar Mohammed Amin
 | honorific_suffix = 
 | image       = Rizgar Mohammed Amin (cropped).jpg
 | alt         = Rizgar Mohammed Amin
 | caption     = Rizgar Mohammed Amin
 | office      = [[Chief Judge of the Iraqi Special Tribunal]]
 | term_start  = 19 October 2005
 | term_end    = 14 January 2006
 | nominator   = 
 | appointer   = [[Jalal Talabani]]
 | predecessor = 
 | successor   = [[Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman]]
}}
'''Rizgar Mohammed Amin''' ({{langx|ar|رزكار محمد أمين}}) (born 1957) is the former chief judge of the [[Iraqi Special Tribunal]]'s [[Trials of Saddam Hussein|Al-Dujail trial]]. He is the only judge whose name was revealed on the trial's opening on 19 October 2005, the names of the other four judges and all but two of his four colleagues faces not allowed to be shown during the televised portions of the trial.(Telegraph.co.uk – 12:30AM GMT 15 January 2006)

Amin graduated from the Law School of [[Baghdad University]] in 1980. He is an ethnic [[Kurds|Kurd]], though he has no record of political activism, or connections to the ''[[Peshmerga]]''. He was a regional judge during the presidency of [[Saddam Hussein]]. Amin lives in [[Sulaymaniyah]] with his wife Nazanin Ahmed (born 1962) and four children, born between 1990 and 2001.

Because he had refused to join the [[Ba'ath]] party, he was only admitted to the college of judges in 1990, after working in a subordinate position for ten years. Amin was appointed chief judge of the regional court by [[Jalal Talabani]] in the mid-1990s.

On 14 January 2006, he resigned as chief judge of the trials of Saddam Hussein, due to government interference and harsh public criticism. He was replaced by [[Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman]].

==External links==
*[https://www.theguardian.com/international/story/0,,1686396,00.html Saddam Hussein judge to quit trial, friend says], [[Guardian Unlimited]] 14 January 2006
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4613098.stm Saddam trial judge offers to quit], [[BBC News Online|BBC News]] 15 January 2006
*[https://www.theguardian.com/international/story/0,,1687105,00.html Pressure on Saddam judge to stay in job], Guardian Unlimited 16 January 2006
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4639488.stm  Iraq court names new Saddam judge], BBC News 23 January 2006

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