Kazem Rajavi
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Pr. Kazem Rajavi (Persian: کاظم رجوي ) (February 8, 1934; April 24, 1990) was a renowned human rights advocate and elder brother of Iranian opposition leader Massoud Rajavi.
Kazem Rajavi, then the representative of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Switzerland, was gunned down in broad daylight by several MOIS agents on April 24, 1990 as he was driving to his home in Coppet, a village near Geneva.
Ordered by Rafsanjani, it required enormous resources, extensive planning, and coordination among several of the regime's organizations. Because of his international endeavors to defend human rights in Iran, Kazem Rajavi was a distinguished personality. Sirous Nasseri, Tehran's ambassador to the United Nations Office in Geneva, on two occasions personally threatened to murder him.
After extensive investigations, Roland Chatelain, the Swiss magistrate in charge of the case, and Swiss judicial and police officials confirmed the role of Rafsanjani's government and the participation of thirteen official agents of the Iranian regime who had used "service passports" to enter Switzerland for their plot
Recently, Swiss magistrates have issued an international arrest warrant for a former Iranian intelligence minister, Ali Fallahian, in connection with the with the 1990 killing of the Geneva university professor.
Fallahian and 13 Iranian diplomats are wanted on charges of murdering Kazem Rajavi.
Kazem Rajavi was Iran's first Ambassador to the United Nations headquarters in Geneva following the 1979 Islamic revolution. Shortly after his appointment, he resigned his post in protest to the “repressive policies and terrorist activities of the ruling clerics in Iran”.
He then intensified his campaign against mass executions, arbitrary arrests, and torture carried out by Iran’s theocratic leadership.
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.
