Karim Mohammedzadeh (Persian: کریم محمدزاده; b. 1 July 1963 – 1 April 1990) was an eastern Kurdish dissident who was assassinated in Sweden in 1990. Karim Mohammedzadeh was born in eastern Kurdistan and came to Sweden as a political refugee in 1988 and immediately gained the right to asylum. On 1 April 1990 he was assassinated in his apartment in the town of Nynäshamn south of Stockholm. The murder remains officially unsolved. However, the Iranian government is widely believed to have ordered the assassination as it had many similarities with other assassinations and assassination attempts on eastern Kurdish dissidents around the world at this time. In 2003, Sveriges Television showed a documentary film about the case by filmmaker Oscar...
