Assadullah Sarwari

Asadullah Sarwari ( born 1941 ) is a former Afghan politician who has since been sentenced to death for war crimes.

Asadullah Sarwari belonged to the Khalq wing of the Socialist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. On April 1, 1979, he was chief of the secret police AGSA. In June 1979 he became a member of the anti -amine group. On September 12, Prime Minister Hafizullah Amin reported on a Ministerial conference that Sarwari and three others of his people had committed an assassination attempt against him. On September 14, Amin was cleaning the cabinet, Sarwari was replaced by the nephew of Hafizullah Amin. On 27 December 1979 with the invasion of the Red Army in Afghanistan, was Sarwari member of the Politburo, Deputy Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport. Sarwari worked from 1980 to 1986, he was Ambassador to Mongolia. Sarwaris successor as prime minister Sultan Ali Keshtmand.

According to Amnesty International was Sarwari sitting since 1992 in Afghanistan in prison on 23 February 2006 for war crimes and torture committed during the rule of the Soviet- backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan ( 1978-1992 ), was sentenced to death. International observers classify the process as flawed, since essential legal standards and basic rights to have been violated, so Sarwari had for much of the process without legal representation.