Abdolkarim Lahiji

Abdolkarim Lahiji
Born 1940 (age 77–78)[1]
Tehran, Iran
Residence Paris, France[2]
Nationality Iranian
Alma mater University of Tehran[1]
Occupation Lawyer
Organization International Federation for Human Rights
Movement Civil rights[3]

Abdolkarim Lahiji (Persian: عبدالکریم لاهیجی‎) is an Iranian lawyer and human rights activist.

He was elected as the president of the International Federation for Human Rights in 2013, having previously served as the vice-president from 1998 to 2013,[1] and is the president of the League for the Defense of Human Rights in Iran since 1983.[2] Lahiji is a former Confederation of Iranian Students activist[2] and was the student representative in the National Front during 1960s.[4]

Electoral history

YearElectionVotes%RankNotes
1979Assembly of Experts179,7987.1114th Lost[5]
1980Parliament369,68817.349th Lost[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Abdol-Karim Lahidji: President of FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights" (PDF). International Federation for Human Rights. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 Nassehi-Behnam, Vida (January 31, 2012) [December 15, 2000]. "FRANCE xvii. Persian Community in France". In Yarshater, Ehsan. Encyclopædia Iranica. Fasc. 2. X. New York City: Bibliotheca Persica Press. pp. 182–187. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ Houchang E. Chehabi (1990). Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. p. 231. ISBN 1850431981.
  4. ↑ "We shall never forget: Interview with Abdol-Karim Lahiji". The Iranian. Interviewed by Fariba Amini. 5 December 2003. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  5. 1 2 Ervand Abrahamian (1989), Radical Islam: the Iranian Mojahedin, Society and culture in the modern Middle East, 3, I.B.Tauris, p. 195, Table 6; pp. 203–205, Table 8, ISBN 9781850430773
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