Efat Ghazi

Efat Ghazi (Persian: عفت قاضی, born 2 November 1935 – died 6 September 1990) was a Kurdish refugee from Iran who was killed by a letter bomb in Västerås, Sweden, in 1990. Efat Ghazi was born in a Kurdish family in Iranian Kurdistan. Her father, Qazi Muhammad, was president of the short-lived Republic of Mahabad, which was proclaimed in Iranian Kurdistan in 1946. After studying law in Iran, Ghazi worked as a teacher, a profession she continued in Sweden where she later arrived as a refugee. She gained habitual residence in 1985 but never had Swedish citizenship. In Sweden, she reunited with her husband, Emir Ghazi, with whom she had two daughters. Emir Ghazi was a former member of the politburo of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran...