Azadeh Rojhan Gustafsson (born 1986) is an Iranian-Swedish politician who serves as a member of the

Swedish parliament The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and s ...

Early life and education

Rojhan Gustafsson was born in 1986 in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. at the age of five, she with her mother, father and brother immigrated and grew up in

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

Political career

In 2006, Rojhan Gustafsson joined the

Swedish Social Democratic Party The Swedish Social Democratic Party, formally the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party ( sv, Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti ; S/SAP), usually referred to as The Social Democrats ( sv, link=no, Socialdemokraterna ), is a social-d ...

for the first time and then in 2014 was elected to parliament as a member. In addition to her committee assignments, Rojhan Gustafsson has been a member of the Swedish delegation to the

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe, a 46-nation international organisation dedicated to upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law. The Assembly is made up o ...

(PACE) since 2016.Azadeh Rojhan Gustafsson

(PACE). In the Assembly, she serves on the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (since 2017); the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 2016); the Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (since 2019); and the Sub-Committee on Human Rights (2016–2021).

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Members of the Riksdag 2014–2018 Members of the Riksdag 2018–2022 Members of the Riksdag from the Social Democrats 1986 births Living people Iranian emigrants to Sweden Swedish politicians of Iranian descent Members of the Riksdag 2022–2026 {{Sweden-SocialDemocratic-politician-stub