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Ms Azadeh ROJHAN (Sweden, SOC)

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Representative
Member of the Riksdag
Social Democratic Party

Sveriges Riksdag
SE - 100 12 - Stockholm
Sweden

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2026 , 2025 , 2024 , 2023 , 2022

Declarations of interest regarding election observations (if applicable)

Latest news

29/04/2026 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights PACE rapporteur calls for the immediate release of Anar Mammadli 30/10/2025 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights International Day of Political Prisoners: joint statement by PACE general rapporteur and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Special Representative 17/09/2025 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights PACE General Rapporteur: ‘Vladimir Putin’s regime assassinated Alexei Navalny’ 22/06/2025 - Political Affairs and Democracy PACE rapporteurs welcome Siarhii Tsikhanouskiy’s release 22/05/2025 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights Azerbaijan: PACE General Rapporteur deplores sentencing of a Talysh academic to 18 years in prison

Mandates

In the political groups

  • First Vice-Chairperson: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group since 19/06/2023
  • Women’s Group President: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 27/01/2020 to 08/10/2023
  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 01/08/2017 to 26/01/2020
  • Member: Socialist Group from 25/01/2016 to 31/07/2017

In the Assembly

  • since 14/03/2022 Representative - Sweden
  • from 25/01/2016 to 13/03/2022 Substitute - Sweden

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • General Rapporteur for political prisoners: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 28/01/2025)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 24/01/2022)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 28/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 30/06/2017 to 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 25/01/2016)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 25/01/2022 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 09/09/2020 to 24/01/2021)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 24/01/2019 to 24/01/2021)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 23/01/2019 to 27/01/2020)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 23/01/2018 to 22/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 26/01/2016 to 27/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Kristoffer LINDBERG (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (since 23/01/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Ola MÖLLER (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 21/01/2019 to 24/11/2022)
  • Alternate of Ms Lotta JOHNSSON FORNARVE (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 25/01/2016 to 20/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Ms Annicka ENGBLOM (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 26/01/2021 to 24/01/2022)
  • Alternate of Ms Lotta JOHNSSON FORNARVE (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 25/01/2016 to 20/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Jonas GUNNARSSON (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 26/01/2016 to 20/01/2019)

Interventions

Last speeches

24/06/2026 | 20:08:42 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2)   President, dear colleagues, Thanks to the rapporteur! The report before us is clear about the scale of political imprisonment in Azerbaijan. According to Azerbaijani human rights defenders, there were 328 political prisoners in Azerbaijan in May this year. That number includes, human rights defenders such as Mr Anar MAMMADLI, academics such as Mr Iqbal ABILOV and Mr Bahruz SAMADOV and opposition figures such as Mr Ali KARIMLI, lawyers... 24/06/2026 | 18:04:12 Mister President, Dear colleagues, I would also like to start by thanking the rapporteurs for their very important work with this report. Across our member states, we are seeing a deeply worrying development. The number of political prisoners is increasing. That should tell us something. Political prisoners are not only a violation of individual rights, they are a warning sign that the rule of law is being turned against democracy itself. When courts and criminal law are used to remove... 23/06/2026 | 19:01:38 Dear colleagues, Dear Mr Jacques PARIS, thank you to the rapporteur for this very important report. I was actually born in Iran and I was 5 years old when I moved to Sweden together with my parents. They left Iran because they wanted their daughter to grow up in freedom and in dignity. And what my parents wanted for me in life is what millions of people inside of Iran still are demanding after 45 years. They want the right to live without fear. But the truth is that the Iranian regime, the... 23/06/2026 | 11:47:58 Dear colleagues, Türkiye's democratic backsliding is not new. What is new is the scale and the confidence with which the instruments of the states are now used against democratic oppositions. Courts, prosecutors and criminal law should protect democracy. In Türkiye, they are increasingly used to narrow it. Political opponents are no longer only met through democratic competition. They are investigated, detained, removed from office, prosecuted and kept under the constant threat of... 21/04/2026 | 12:14:09 Madam President. Thank you, Secretary General. The European Convention on Human Rights has long been a cornerstone of the Council of Europe, and the interpretation of the Convention has been a matter for the European Court of Human Rights. Now that some governments have opened a discussion – even if the outcome will only be a declaration – many are rightfully concerned that such a declaration with an unclear legal status could risk challenging the independence of the Court. As member states...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

21/10/2024 | Doc. 16067 | Report Civil society and the Parliamentary Assembly: towards greater transparency and engagement 15/04/2024 | Doc. 15964 | Committee Opinion Application by Kosovo* for membership of the Council of Europe 06/01/2020 | Doc. 15025 | Report The functioning of democratic institutions in Poland 27/06/2018 | Doc. 14592 | Committee Opinion Forced marriage in Europe

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

26/06/2026 | Doc. 16456 | Motion for a resolution Supporting the establishment of a United Nations Special Rapporteur on Democracy 23/06/2026 | Doc. 16437 | Motion for a resolution Promoting women’s participation in Parliamentary Assembly election observation missions 16/06/2026 | Doc. 16427 | Motion for a resolution Europe, democratic Russian civil society in exile and a democratic future for post-Putin Russia 15/05/2026 | Doc. 16405 | Motion for a resolution Reported cases of political prisoners in Europe 29/01/2026 | Doc. 16338 | Motion for a resolution Safeguarding international justice from transnational repression

Votes on adopted texts

25/06/2026 | Doc. 16412, vote on the draft text for resolution Access of migrants and refugees to healthcare 25/06/2026 | Doc. 16446, vote on the draft text for resolution Women’s access to justice 24/06/2026 | Doc. 16414, vote on the draft text for resolution Silencing critical voices in Azerbaijan 24/06/2026 | Doc. 16420, vote on the draft text for resolution The functioning of democratic institutions in Georgia 23/06/2026 | Doc. 16424, vote on the draft text for resolution The functioning of democratic institutions in Serbia