What is Asma Jahangir?
[[File:Asma Jahangir (33308430296).jpg|thumb|right|Asma Jahangir in 2013]] '''Asma Jilani Jahangir''' (27 January 1952 &ndash; 11 February 2018) was a leading [[Pakistan]]i lawyer. Born in [[Lahore]], she was an advocate of the [[Supreme Court of Pakistan]], President Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan and a human rights activist<ref>Muneeza Shamsi article 'A ray of hope' in daily Dawn, Karachi, Pakistan, 2nd April 1998</ref> who works both in Pakistan and internationally to prevent the [[persecution]] of religious [[minority group|minorities]], women, and [[exploitation]] of children. She won several international awards for her activism<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sawnet.org/whoswho/?Jahangir+Asma|title=Asma Jahangir profile|publisher=|access-date=2014-09-22|archive-date=2005-05-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050502072054/http://www.sawnet.org/whoswho/?Jahangir+Asma|url-status=dead}}</ref> including [[Right Livelihood Award]] and the [[Four Freedoms Award]] in 2010 for promoting Religious Freedom. Jahangir suffered from [[brain haemorrhage]] while going into [[cardiac arrest]] in Lahore on 11 February 2018 and died when was taken to the hospital at the age of 66.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thesindhtimes.com/pak/human-rights-icon-asma-jahangir-passes-away-lahore/|title=Human rights icon Asma Jahangir passes away in Lahore|first=The Sindh|last=Times|date=11 February 2018|publisher=|access-date=11 February 2018|archive-date=11 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211111641/http://www.thesindhtimes.com/pak/human-rights-icon-asma-jahangir-passes-away-lahore/|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Jahangir, Asma}} [[Category:1952 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Pakistani human rights activists]] [[Category:Pakistani lawyers]] [[Category:People from Lahore]]