Judge[1] Adnan Mohammad Addoum (Arabic: عدنان عضوم, born Beirut, 1941) is a Lebanese Sunni public prosecutor[2][3] and a pro-Syrian[4] politician,[5] who served as a Justice Minister in 2004.
[4] Born in Msaytbeh, Beirut on January 10, 1941, to a Syrian immigrant father, who was later naturalized,[8] most of his relatives still live in northern Syria.
[9] His parents owned a store in central district souk (market) which sold imported Syrian food products.
[9] He quickly rose through the ranks of the judiciary, during which he allegedly worked closely with the Palestinian organizations,[8] before being appointed prosecutor-general in 1995,[11] after the intervention of Ghazi Kanaan the head of the Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon at the time.
During that time, he has aggressively prosecuted and imprisoned many Syrian occupation of Lebanon political opposers[4] Addoum used to participate in meetings of pro-Syrian personalities.