Mustafa Najjem

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Mustafa Najjem (2014)

Mustafa Najjem , also Mustafa Nayyem , ( Ukrainian Мустафа Найєм / Russian Мустафа Найем / Mustafa Najem; born June 28, 1981 in Kabul , Afghanistan ) is a Ukrainian member of parliament, journalist and activist of Afghan descent. As a correspondent for Ukrajinska Pravda , he became known through spectacular revelations. He took part in numerous protests such as "Stop the censorship!" Najjem is considered to be one of the initiators of Euromaidan , the protest movement in Ukraine that led to the overthrow of the Azarov government and President Yanukovych , after calling for protests on November 21, 2013 on Facebook on Independence Square in Kiev .

Life

His father became Deputy Minister of Education of Afghanistan in occupied Kabul in 1981. In 1989, the year the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan , the family first emigrated to Moscow and then moved to Kiev. There Najjem graduated from the Technical Lyceum in Kiev in 1998 and from the Aerospace Systems Department of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute in 2004 .

Between 2005 and 2007 he worked as a reporter for the newspaper "Kommersant-Ukraina".

Since 2006 he has worked for the independent internet newspaper " Ukrajinska Prawda ".

In 2009 Najjem became known when, during a live discussion with the then presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych on the TV channel Ukraina, he asked him unpleasant questions about the acquisition of the government residence " Meschyhirja ".

In May 2010 he and a group of critical journalists founded the movement “Stop the censorship!”, Of which he is a member of the coordination council. After a short time, over 100 journalists joined the movement.

On December 13, 2010, officers of the Berkut Special Forces arrested Najjem for an hour and a half in the parking lot of the TV station 5 Kanal while trying to establish his identity - allegedly because of his suspicious appearance in the manner of a Caucasian. After his release he wrote the article " Xenophobia Should Not Become the Face of the Ukrainian Nation" the next day , in which he described the circumstances of his arrest and demanded the release of the officer responsible for his arrest.

From September 2011 to the end of April 2013 Najjem worked for the Ukrainian television broadcaster TVi Kanal, but left it in 2013 due to a conflict with the new management. Then he founded an internet project with colleagues who had also left the station, from which " Hromadske.TV " (German: Bürger TV) arose.

In 2013/2014 he was a participant in Bertelsmann's Intajour qualification and training facility in Hamburg.

Mustafa Najjem was one of the first to use Facebook to call on Ukrainians to a rally on Independence Square in Kiev to protest against the “postponement” of the signing of the Association Agreement with the European Union . That was the beginning of the mass protests at the Euromaidan in Kiev, which led to the overthrow of the Yanukovych government.

On June 12, 2014, the Zeit Foundation in Hamburg awarded him the Gerd Bucerius Prize for Free Press Eastern Europe 2014 , endowed with 10,000 euros . In 2014, he completed the Draper Hills Summer Fellows Class of 2014 program at Stanford University .

Najjem ran in the parliamentary elections on October 26, 2014 on the list of the Petro Poroshenko bloc and was elected MP of the Verkhovna Rada . On the eve of the elections, he caused a stir with charges of buying votes in the ranks of the Petroschenko bloc.

Even before he entered parliament, he complained that with 5000 hrywen (about 230 euros) he could not exist as a member of parliament. The low wages of MPs inevitably lead to corruption. With reference to the high salaries of the members of the European Parliament, he called for an increase in the diets.

At the parliamentary session on December 2, 2014, he was the only MP who voted against the new cabinet of Prime Minister Arsen Yatsenyuk .

Mustafa Najjem took part in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly for the first time on October 11, 2015 as a member of the Ukrainian delegation .

In December 2016 Najjem was one of the signatories of the appeal of the Berlin International Literature Festival "End the mass murder in Aleppo!" , Which is directed against the "bombing war by Russian President Putin in the Syrian city ​​of Aleppo ".

Personal

Najjem belongs to the Pashtun ethnic group and is a Muslim . He is married to a Jew ; his son is brought up according to Jewish rules . His brother Masi Nayyem is a well-known lawyer in Kiev.

Web links

Commons : Mustafa Najjem  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mustafa Najjem - a key figure in the Maidan protest , sn.at from November 19, 2018
  2. ↑ Мой уход в политику - часть моей ответственности за Майдан. Монолог Мустафы Найемa , nv.ua from April 6, 2015 (accessed November 27, 2018)
  3. ^ Reforming Ukraine After the Revolutions , newyorker.com (accessed November 27, 2018)
  4. ↑ "Коммерсантъ-Украина" - website of the Ukrainian internet newspaper "Kommersant-Ukraina".
  5. ↑ Najjems blog in Ukrajinska Pravda
  6. ↑ Вопросы Мустафы Найема дваждынесудимому Януковичу о Межигорье на Шустер live - questions from the journalist Mustafa Najjem to the January 15, 2010 live, Janukovichi residency, Janukovichi residency, who was convicted of the Janukovichi residency, Janukoveshidschirja .
  7. ↑ Украинские журналисты основали движение «Стоп цензуре!» - Ukrainian journalists founded movement “Stop the censorship!” Website Glavnoe.ua, May 21, 2010, accessed on March 4, 2014.
  8. ↑ The well-known journalist Mustafa Najjem was arrested , Ukraine News, December 14, 2010.
  9. ↑ Mustafa Najjem: Xenophobia Should Not Become the Face of the Ukrainian Nation , Ukraine News, December 14, 2010.
  10. ↑ Найєм оголосив про старт нового проекту колишніх журналістів ТВі Najjem announced the start of a new project by the former journalists Telekanals TBi , Ukrajinska Pravda , accessed on April 30, 2013, on April 4, 2013, Ukrajinska Pravda .
  11. ^ Intajour International School of Journalism on the brink of collapse. Bertelsmann's good deed in a new light , berliner-zeitung.de, May 7, 2014
  12. ↑ training. Sudden End , Message 3-2014
  13. ↑ Ukraine's Battle for Europe . November 29, 2013. Retrieved March 3, 2014. 
  14. ↑ Courage for the truth. Gerd Bucerius' Free Press Eastern Europe 2014 awards go primarily to journalists in Russia and Ukraine , zeit-stiftung.de (accessed on November 27, 2018)
  15. ↑ Draper Hills Summer Fellows Class of 2014 , cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu (accessed November 27, 2018)
  16. ↑ Mustafa Nayem refuses to work for Ukrainian Parliament for 5000 UAH (approx. $ 390) , Facebook
  17. ↑ Поіменне голосування про проект Постанови про формування складу Кабінету Міністрів України (№1008) " Cabinet names for Ukraine"
  18. ^ Parliamentary Assembly of NATO, Germany and the Ukrainian Question , accessed December 2, 2015
  19. ↑ The end of the mass murder in Aleppo - great response to the appeal. Wording of the call in four languages ​​from December 8, 2016 on AVIVA-Berlin.de , accessed on May 1, 2020
  20. ↑ Мустафа Найем: Мой сын - еврей Mustafa Najjem: My son is a Jew , From-ua website, December 17, 2009.
  21. ↑ KFC opens in euromaidan's tragic stronghold; activists won't have it , kyivpost.com from November 23, 2018
  22. ↑ Kyiv police call Nayyem attack 'hooliganism' , kyivpost.com from May 1, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Najjem, Mustafa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Najem, Mustafa (transcribed Russian form of name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Kabul