| Jabar Amin | |
| Office1: | Member of the Riksdag |
| Constituency1: | Västerbotten County |
| Term Start1: | 4 October 2010 |
| Term End1: | 24 September 2018 |
| Party: | Green Party |
| Alma Mater: | Umeå University |
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]
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]