Sayed Yousuf Halim

Sayed Yousuf Halim (1959 – 17 October 2022) was an Afghan judge.

He became Deputy Minister of Justice for Administrative Affairs in 2009 and Deputy Minister of Justice for Legal Affairs from 2010 to 2014.

[1] He was appointed acting Justice Minister by President Hamid Karzai in 2014 then Chief Justice by President Ashraf Ghani on 27 July 2015.

[2] He went into exile in August 2021 after the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

[3] He died in the Emirates' Humanitarian City in Abu Dhabi after a heart attack[4] when he was in a mosque for performing evening prayer.