Abdolkarim_Lahiji

Abdolkarim Lahiji

Abdolkarim Lahiji

Iranian politician

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

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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.[3] Lahidji is a former Confederation of Iranian Students activist[3] and was the student representative in the National Front during 1960s.[4]

Electoral history

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References

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


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