Mohammad Farid Hamidi

In 2021, after serving in Afghanistan's justice sector for six years, Hamidi resigned his position as Attorney General of Afghanistan.

Mohammad Farid Hamidi was appointed in 2016 as Attorney General of Afghanistan by President Ashraf Ghani. Hamidi served his country by supporting the rule of law, reformation, and human rights. He also focused on civic values and fighting against corruption, inequality, injustice, and violence against women and children in Afghanistan.

In 2014, he was appointed as Ambassador against Torture in Afghanistan by the Asia-Pacific Assembly.

Hamidi was appointed as a member of the Election Committee of Emergency (Loya Jirga) and focal point for four provinces namely: Kandahar, Zabul, Helmand, and Uruzgan as per decree of the Head of interim administration in 2002. At the same time, he was appointed as the temporary secretary of the Emergency Loya Jirga. Again in 2002, he was appointed as a member of Independent Human Rights Commission of Afghanistan. Besides all these responsibilities, Hamidi was appointed as a member of Independent Election Complaint Commission as per decree of President of Afghanistan in 2005 and worked in this position for more than a year. In addition, Hamidi worked as a member of Reporting Committee of Government to International Conventions and Universal Periodic Review Committee as per a presidential decree.

Mohammad Farid Hamidi (به فارسی و پشتو: څارنپوه محمدفرید حمیدی), born in 1967 in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, is an Afghan lawyer, human rights activist, and was the Attorney General of Afghanistan from 2016 till 2021.

Mohammad Farid Hamidi was born in 1967 in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan. He completed his primary education in a local school. Afterwards he was admitted to the National Police Academy of Afghanistan, where he received his bachelors in Criminal Law. After that, he earned his second bachelors degree from faculty of Law and Political Science of Kabul University.