Ehsan Jami

Ehsan Jami is a Dutch politician. From March 7, 2006 until November 6, 2007 he was member of the city council of LeidschendamVoorburg on behalf of the Dutch Labour Party . From that date until 2010 he continued to be a member of the city council as independent member fraction Jami . In 2007 he was one of the two founders of the former Central Committee for ExMuslims.

Jami was born on April 20, 1985 in Mashhad, Iran and was raised there. His father is a doctor. His mother converted, later in her life, to Christianity. As son of a doctor, Jami enjoyed substantial privileges in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In an interview, Jami stated My grandparents were Muslim, but my father was nonreligious. Yet in a different interview, he described his father as Muslim. Political engagement by Jamis father forced the family to leave the country. Together with his parents and his older sister, the then nineyearold Jami arrived in the Netherlands in 1994, later obtaining Dutch nationality.

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