LC control no. | n 83301236 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PK6561.R243 |
Personal name heading | Radjavi, Kazem |
Variant(s) | Rajavī, Kāẓim Rajavi, Kazem رجوى، کاظم |
Associated country | Iran Switzerland |
Located | Coppet (Switzerland) |
Birth date | 1934-02-08 |
Death date | 1990-04-24 |
Field of activity | Human rights--Iran |
Affiliation | Université de Genève Shūrā-yi Millī-i Muqāvamat-i Īrān |
Profession or occupation | Human rights workers University and college faculty members |
Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated |
Found in | His 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 language | fre |