Jabar Amin

Jabar Karim Mohamad Amin (born 1959) is a Swedish politician and former member of the Riksdag, the national legislature. A member of the Green Party, he represented Västerbotten County between October 2010 and September 2018.^[1]

Jabar Amin
Amin in July 2013
Member of the Riksdag
In office 4 October 2010 – 24 September 2018
Constituency	Västerbotten County
Personal details
Born	1959 (age 65–66)
Political party	Green Party
Alma mater	Umeå University

Amin studied mathematics at Umeå University.^[1] He has a political science degree from the university.^[1] He has been an interpreter, case manager, project manager and business manager.^[1] He was a member of the municipal council in Umeå Municipality between 2006 and 2010.^[1]

Amin, who is a Kurd, claimed to have nominated Kurdistan Workers' Party leader Abdullah Öcalan for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.^[2][3] Amin was meant to be part of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's election observer group for the 2018 Turkish presidential election but was blocked, along with German MP Andrej Hunko, from entering Turkey.^[4][5]