Amineh Kakabaveh
Amineh Kakabaveh is a Swedish formerly Left Party politician of Iranian Kurdish descent. She has been a member of the Parliament of Sweden since 2008.
Before fleeing to Sweden, via Turkey, she was a member of Komalah and a Peshmerga fighter. Before entering the parliament Kakabaveh was awarded a master's degree in social work at Stockholm University and worked as a social worker in Stockholm. Inspired by the French movement Ni Putes Ni Soumises Kakabaveh in 2005 founded the feminist and antiracist organization Varken hora eller kuvad. As a politician and opinion maker, Kakabaveh is involved with topics such as honour crimes, women's rights and secularism. Her work has made her a controversial person within Swedish politics and her own Left party, but she has also received the title of "Swede of the year" as awarded by Fokus magazine. Her autobiography Amineh – inte större än en kalasjnikov was published in 2016, detailing her time with the Peshmerga.
In August 2019 she was expelled from the Left Party as a result of a prolonged conflict with the party leadership.
