Ahmed Shya'a al-Barak was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, created following the United States

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's 2003 invasion of Iraq

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 and dissolved in June 2004. A Shia Muslim from the city of Babylon

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, al-Barak is a lawyer and coordinator for the Iraqi Bar Association. As a human rights activist, al-Barak worked in the Iraqi Foreign Ministry in cooperation with United Nations

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from 1991 to 2003.