Kazem Rajavi

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Kazem Rajavi (also Kasem Radschawi , born February 8, 1934 in Tabas , † April 24, 1990 in Coppet ) was an Iranian lawyer, sociologist and human rights activist and brother of the opposition politician Massoud Rajavi .

Life

Rajavi held six doctoral degrees in law, political science and sociology from the Universities of Paris and Geneva .

Shortly after his appointment by Abu l-Hasan Banisadr as the Islamic Republic's first ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, he resigned because of the executions, arbitrary arrests and torture by the mullah regime. Rajavi's predecessor in office was Fereydoon Hoveyda , who was still appointed by the Shah .

After his brief work as an ambassador, Rajavi became involved in Switzerland against human rights violations in Iran and was considered a representative of the Iranian opposition movement “ National Council of Resistance of Iran ” (NCRI) founded by Banisadr and his brother Massoud in exile . He was gunned down in the street on April 24, 1990 while driving back from Geneva to his home town of Coppet .

The Swiss investigating judge Roland Chatelain confirmed the involvement of numerous high-ranking representatives of the Iranian government in the elaborately planned coup. As participants was Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani , the Intelligence Minister Ali Fallahian and later ambassador of Iran in Germany, Mohammad Mehdi Achundsade Basti called. As a result of these investigations, an international arrest warrant for Ali Fallahian was issued at Interpol 16 years after the murder of Rajavi.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Washington Post, November 8, 2006: Fereydoun Hoveyda; Iranian Delegate to United Nations During Shah's Rule
  2. ↑ a b Iranfocus.com, May 23, 2010: Exclusive: Profile of an assassin-turned-diplomat
  3. ↑ swissinfo.ch, April 9, 2006: arrest warrant for ex-Iranian minister
  4. ↑ Wanted FALLAHIJAN, Ali ( memento from December 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) interpol.int (accessed on January 23, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Rajavi, Kazem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian politician, diplomat, scientist and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Tabas
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1990
Place of death Coppet , Switzerland