Arfan Bhatti

Arfan Bhatti (born 9 August 1977) is a Norwegian Islamist activist and a leading figure of the Profetens Ummah.

In 2026, a lower court in Norway handed down a verdict, in regard to the trial against Bhatti for his alleged part in the 2022 Oslo shooting; the verdict says that he will be imprisoned for at least 30 years; however, he has appealed the case.

Early life Bhatti was born and raised in Oslo to parents of Pakistani origin from the city of Gujrat. He spent several years in Pakistan during his childhood in addition to attending school in Norway, but was eventually brought under the care of a child protection institution.

Arrest in Pakistan In 2012 it was initially reported by some news outlets that Bhatti had travelled to fight in Syria along with other Norwegian jihadists, but it was soon reported by other sources that he probably was in Pakistan instead. Bhatti was later found to have been imprisoned in northern Pakistan from January 2013 to August 2014, although he according to his lawyer was eventually acquitted from his charges of having had contacts with the Taliban. In March he reportedly met and brought personal belongings to fellow member of Profetens Ummah Omar Cheblal in Greece, who had been expelled from Norway. Bhatti was at the same time sentenced to ten months in prison for domestic violence against his children, but appealed the verdict. In April he went on a pilgrimage to Mecca. In late July Bhatti was arrested with new violence charges. He began serving his ten-month domestic violence sentence in August after the verdict was upheld in courts of appeal. In January 2016 he was sentenced to fourteen days in prison for violence against his wife.

Personal life Bhatti has been married three times, he first married a Pakistani woman in 2003 whom he had been engaged to since 1995. They had three children together. The couple had one son together, Salahuddin, who died shortly after Shezadi took him to Syria with her in late 2014.

According to court documents he has at least one other child.