Abdolkarim Lahiji

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

Abdolkarim Lahiji
Lahiji in 2012
Born	1940 (age 80–81)[1] Tehran, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Alma mater	University of Tehran[1]
Occupation	Lawyer
Organization	International Federation for Human Rights Iranian Committee for the Defense of Freedom and Human Rights (1977–1980)
Movement	Civil rights[2]

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

Electoral history

Year	Election	Votes	%	Rank	Notes
1979	Assembly of Experts	179,798	7.11	14th	Lost[5]
1980	Parliament	369,688	17.3	49th	Lost[5]

References

1. "Abdol-Karim Lahidji: President of FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights" (PDF). International Federation for Human Rights. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
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. Nassehi-Behnam, Vida (January 31, 2012) [December 15, 2000]. "FRANCE xvii. Persian Community in France". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Fasc. 2. X. New York City: Bibliotheca Persica Press. pp. 182–187. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
4. "We shall never forget: Interview with Abdol-Karim Lahiji". The Iranian. Interviewed by Fariba Amini. 5 December 2003. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
5. 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