Efat Ghazi

Efat Ghazi (; 2 November 1935 – 6 September 1990) was a Kurdish refugee from Iranian Kurdistan who was killed by a letter bomb in Västerås, Sweden, in 1990.

Life Efat Ghazi was born in a Kurdish family in Iranian Kurdistan. Her father, Qazi Muhammad, was the president of the Republic of Mahabad, which was proclaimed in East Kurdistan in 1946 and existed briefly. 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.

The Iranian government was quickly suspected by many of having ordered the assassination, which had many similarities to other assassinations and assassination attempts of Iranian political exiles around the world at this time. However, a few years after the assassination, the Swedish police closed the investigation citing lack of evidence.

Thousands of people showed up at Ghazi's funeral in Västerås, many of them from abroad. Among the speakers at the funeral was C.-H. Hermansson, former leader of the Swedish Left Party.