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Radjavi, Kazem

LC control no.n 83301236
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPK6561.R243
Personal name headingRadjavi, Kazem
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Variant(s)Rajavī, Kāẓim
Rajavi, Kazem
‏رجوى، کاظم
Associated countryIran Switzerland
LocatedCoppet (Switzerland)
Birth date1934-02-08
Death date1990-04-24
Field of activityHuman rights--Iran
AffiliationUniversité de Genève Shūrā-yi Millī-i Muqāvamat-i Īrān
Profession or occupationHuman rights workers
University and college faculty members
Special noteNon-Latin script reference not evaluated
Found inHis La révolution iranienne et les moudjahédines, 1983: title page (Kazem Radjavi) page 4 of cover (prof. at Univ. of Geneva)
LC data base, 3-16-84 (hdg.: Radjavi, Kazem)
Wikipedia, viewed June 2, 2020 (Kazem Rajavi; Dr. Kazem Rajavi (February 8, 1934-April 24,1990) was a renowned human rights advocate and elder brother of Iranian Mujahedin leader Massoud Rajavi; he engaged in international endeavors to defend human rights in Iran; at the age of 56, he held six doctorate degrees in the fields of law, political science, and sociology from the universities of Paris and Geneva; he was Iran's first Ambassador to the United Nations headquarters in Geneva following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, but resigned shortly after his appointment; he became the representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Switzerland, where he was a university professor in Geneva; on April 24, 1990, he was gunned down in broad daylight as he was driving to his home in Coppet)
Associated languagefre