Shadi al-Waisi

Shadi Mohammed al-Waisi is a Syrian politician and former rebel leader who served as the Minister of Justice in the Syrian caretaker government from December 2024 to March 2025. He had also served as Minister of Justice in the Syrian Salvation Government during its sixth term, starting in 2022 and up until the December 2024 fall of the Assad regime.

Education Al-Waisi holds a degree in Islamic Sharia and a diploma in educational qualification. He is also working on a master's thesis in Islamic and judicial studies. Prior to his judicial and political career, he worked as an Islamic education teacher and served as an imam and preacher in Aleppo for seven years. The video shows a woman being executed with a single bullet to the head after being allegedly convicted of prostitution.

In another video, recorded approximately one week later in Hafasraja, a similar execution took place for a woman under the same charges. This time, al-Waisi, who was a judge for the Al-Nusra Front, is seen personally delivering the verdict next to the condemned woman and signaling the executioner to proceed.

On 29 March 2025, Mazhar al-Wais succeeded al-Waisi as Minister of Justice with the formation of the Syrian transitional government.