1. Soli Jehangir Sorabjee was born on 9 March 1930 in Bombay to a Parsi family.
17 Facts About Soli Sorabjee
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Soli Sorabjee studied at Bharda New High School, Mumbai and St Xavier's College, Mumbai and Government Law College, Mumbai, and was admitted to the bar in 1953.
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In 1971, Sorabjee was designated a senior advocate of the Bombay High Court.
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Soli Sorabjee served as Solicitor-General of India from 1977 to 1980.
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Soli Sorabjee was appointed Attorney-General for India on 9 December 1989 up to 2 December 1990, and then again on 7 April 1998, a post he held until 2004.
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In March 2002, Soli Sorabjee received the Padma Vibhushan for his defence of the freedom of expression and the protection of human rights.
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Soli Sorabjee later worked on the Citizen's Justice Committee which represented the 1984 anti-Sikh riots victims pro bono.
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Soli Sorabjee was involved in several precedent-setting cases concerning the interpretation of the Constitution of India.
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Soli Sorabjee aided the petitioner in Shreya Singhal v Union of India, which targeted restrictions on online speech in the Information Technology Act, 2000.
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Soli Sorabjee was the chairman of Transparency International and Convenor of the Minority Rights Group.
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Soli Sorabjee served as Special Rapporteur to Nigeria for the United Nations Human Rights Commission in 1997, and as a member of the United Nations Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities from 1998 onwards.
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Soli Sorabjee served as member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague from 2000 to 2006.
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Soli J Sorabjee was vice-president of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association and a member of the Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament Law of the International Law Association.
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Soli Sorabjee was a close friend and colleague of Nanabhoy Palkhivala.
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Soli Sorabjee was the first president of the Jazz India Association.
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Soli Sorabjee played the clarinet; his favourite artists included Benny Goodman and Dizzy Gillespie.
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Soli Sorabjee died of COVID-19, on 30 April 2021 in a private hospital in Delhi where he was undergoing treatment.