13 Facts About Roza Salih

Roza Salih was born on 1989 and is an Iraqi-Kurdish born, Scottish politician and human rights activist.

Roza Salih arrived in Scotland in 2001 to seek asylum.

Roza Salih's family had fled Iraqi Kurdistan after her grandfather and two uncles had been executed for opposing Saddam Hussein, who was still in power.

Roza Salih attended Drumchapel High School, and then graduated with honors in Law and Politics from Strathclyde University in 2013 where she was Vice President for Diversity and Advocacy for the Students Association.

Roza Salih was elected to the National Union of Students' International Students Committee and the NUS UK Student trustee board.

In March 2005, whilst still a pupil at Drumchapel High School, Roza Salih campaigned with fellow pupils to stop the UK Border Agency carrying out dawn raids, taking school children to Yarl's Wood and then deporting them.

Roza Salih is co-founder of Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan and has travelled to Kurdish regions in Turkey as part of a delegation of trade unionists and human rights activists.

In 2017, Roza Salih was appointed as a member of the Scottish Trades Union Congress.

Roza Salih is in favour of the UK becoming a republic.

Roza Salih said that she joined the Scottish National Party because she sees parallels between Kurdistan's fight for self-determination and Scottish independence.

Roza Salih is a part of Social Justice Commission of the SNP and stood for the party's nomination for Clydebank and Milngavie in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election, but lost it to Marie McNair, a Clydebank councillor.

On 5 March 2021, Roza Salih was selected at the number one SNP candidate for the Glasgow region.

Roza Salih was elected as an SNP councillor in the Greater Pollok ward in Glasgow at the 2022 Scottish local elections, and is a baillie.