15 Facts About Kazem Rajavi

Kazem Rajavi was the elder brother of Iranian Mujahedin leader Massoud Rajavi.

When, in 1971, Massoud Rajavi was arrested and sentenced to death, Kazem Rajavi managed to prevent the execution by forming an international campaign and changing the verdict to life imprisonment.

Kazem Rajavi engaged in international endeavors to defend human rights in Iran, was a "major opposition voice to the fundamentalist government of Iranian".

Kazem Rajavi held a PhD in from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and was a political science professor at Geneva University.

Kazem Rajavi is believed to have been assassinated by Islamic Republic of Iran agents.

Kazem Rajavi was Iran's first Ambassador to the United Nations headquarters in Geneva following the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

Kazem Rajavi became the representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Switzerland where each year he headed the People's Mujahedin of Iran delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and was "vocal in the campaign against repression in Iran".

Kazem Rajavi held a professorship and taught at the School of Law at Geneva University for nearly 10 years.

Kazem Rajavi had received several threats from agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran, but continued his work as a dissident and human rights activist.

On 24 April 1990, Kazem Rajavi was killed in Geneva.

Kazem Rajavi was shot in the head at close range, with the assassins escaping the scene.

The culprits of Kazem Rajavi's killing have gone unpunished to date.

On 29 May 2020 Swiss justice system sent a letter to Kazem Rajavi's family saying that it would drop the investigation relating to Kazem Rajavi's assassination, with the letter saying that "the criminal investigation must be closed because the statute of limitations has been reached".

Kazem Rajavi should be investigated as a case of crime against humanity and not just as a typical homicide.

Kazem Rajavi therefore suggested the case to be transferred to the Attorney General, since genocide and crimes against humanity fall exclusively within the jurisdiction of the Swiss Confederation.