- Effat Ghazi
Effat Ghazi (
Persian : عفت قاضی)(2 November 1935 –6 September 1990 ) was a Swedish woman ofIran ian-Kurdish descent who was murdered in 1990.Effat Ghazi was the daughter of the Kurdish nationalist leader
Qazi Muhammad . On 6 September 1990 she was killed in her apartment inVästerås , Sweden, after she had opened aletter bomb addressed to her husband, the Kurdish political activistAmir Ghazi . She died at hospital four hours later from her wounds. Her husband was a leading member of theKurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) and this attack had many similarities to other assassinations and assassination attempts on Iranian-Kurdish political dissidents around the world at this time. The Iranian government was suspected of having ordered the murder as in many of the other cases. However, a few years after the assassination, the Swedish police decided to close the investigation citing lack of evidence.cite news |first=Babak |last=Rahimi |title=Offer för Irans dödspatruller |url=http://www.uppmana.nu/content/view/3173/32/ |publisher=Mana |date=2002-11-19 |accessdate=2007-12-30 |language=Swedish ]Thousands of people showed up at her funeral in Västerås, many of them from abroad. One of the speekers at the funeral was
C.-H. Hermansson , then leader of the Swedish Left Party.See also
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Kamran Hedayati
*Karim Mohammedzadeh References
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NAME=Ghazi, Effat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Muhammad, Effat (birth name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Murder victim
DATE OF BIRTH=2 November 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH=Iran
DATE OF DEATH=6 September 1990
PLACE OF DEATH=Västerås ,Sweden
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