Ayatollah Sayyid Mohamad Baqir Al-Hakim
 
Ayatollah Sayyid Mohamad Baqir Al-Hakim, was born in 1939, He was a distinguished scholar and the personal religious/political representative of the late Grand Ayatollah Mohsin AI-Hakim in Iraq. Sayyid Al-Hakim maintained a close association with Ayatollah Al-Sadr. In 1977 he was was arrested and tortured by the Bathist regime, and immediately sentenced to life imprisonment by special court without any trial. He was released in July 1979 following huge public pressure on the regime. Sayyid Al- Hakim then decided to leave Iraq and went to Iran in 1980 shortly after the eruption of war between Iraq and Iran. He played a prominent role in the deliberations leading to the establishment of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (SCIRI) in November 1982.

He returned to Iraq on 12th May 2003 and he was given a hero's welcome while the occupying powers nervously monitored every move he made. Baqir Al-Hakim expressed dissatisfaction with the US policies in Iraq and said, "We told the Americans that their policies in Iraq are wrong and their dealing with the situation illogical," He was assassinated on Friday, 29 August, in a car bombing in Al-Najaf Al-Ashraf, while he was leaving the Shrine after leading the Friday Prayer. He is the 63rd martyr the Al- Hakim family.