Mohammed Mahdi Ameen al-Bayati (Arabic: محمد مهدي أمين البياتي, Turkish: Muhammed Mehdi Emin Beyati; born 1962[1]) is an Iraqi politician who was the Minister of Human Rights from 9 September 2014 to 16 August 2015.
[2] He is a leading member of the Badr Organization, a Shia militia that opposed the government of Saddam Hussein.
[4] While serving as an MP, in 2007, his convoy was attacked as he travelled to Kirkuk, killing four of his relatives.
[9] He said the government had "little choice" but to rely on the Shia militias, otherwise ISIL would have taken over the entire country.
"[1] In January 2015 he was involved in a controversy when his security guards allegedly attacked traffic police who stopped his convoy as it drove through the Yarmouk district of the capital Baghdad.