Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman

Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman (born 13 November 1941) is an Iraqi judge who served as the replacement chief judge in the Al-Dujail trial in which Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, was sentenced to death for the 1982 Dujail massacre. Other defendants also received death or prison sentences.

Abd al-Rahman is an ethnic Kurd from Halabja, the site of the 1988 Halabja poison gas attack. Amin had resigned after being criticised in the Iraqi media for appearing "too soft" on the defendants by allowing them to speak aloud in court without being recognized. After Amin's resignation, Abd al-Rahman headed the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal during the rest of the trial of Yousef Ali Ghalib for genocide, and when it sentenced him to death. The claim of his seeking asylum was directly disputed by the Iraqi High Criminal Court Tribunal, which said Abd al-Rahman was merely "enjoying a vacation with his family", and Abd al-Rahman never commented on the claim. However, a spokesperson for the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) Ministry of Justice in Erbil has refuted the claims and confirmed the judge to be alive.