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2May

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High Profilers, Noteworthy, Pakistan, Profiles

Haji Allah Yar Ansari, politician

Haji Allah Yar Ansari a Pakistani politician who was a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab between 1997 and 1999 died on May 1, 2020, at the age of 77 due to COVID-19. Born in Khushab District, Allah Yar received his Intermediate in 1962 from the Government College Joharabad. He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab in 1997. He was also businessman who was serving as the vice president of the Pakistan Muslim League and as president of Jamiat Al-Ansar since 1988. He served as a councillor in a municipal corporation in Sargodha from 1987 to 1997. Ansari remained quarantined at home, but was later shifted to hospital when his condition deteriorated and he succumbed to the virus.

30Apr

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High Profilers, Indonesia, Profiles

Syahrul, politician

Syahrul – an Indonesian politician, teacher, and member of the Great Indonesia Movement Party – died on April 28, 2020, after suffering from Covid-19 He served as the Mayor of Tanjung Pinang, and capital and second largest city in the Riau Islands, from September 21, 2018, until his death from COVID-19 on April 28, 2020. Prior to that office, Syahrul had served as Deputy Mayor of Tanjung Pinang from 2013 to 2018. Syahrul, who was one of eight siblings, was born in Tarempa, on August 30, 1960. As a child, he sold ice and small cakes to earn extra money for his family. He graduated from Tanjung Pinang Teacher Training School (SPG) in 1983 and was appointed as a teacher. He later earned a bachelor of education degree from Indonesia Open University in 2008. Syahrul served as Deputy M...

28Apr

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High Profilers, India, Profiles

Badruddin Shaikh, politician

Badruddin Shaikh a senior leader of the Indian National Congress died of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) on 26 April 2020. He was a leader of the opposition party of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. Shaikh did his school graduation from Bhakt Vallabh Dhoda Vidya Vihar Ahmedabad. Then he did his graduation from H K Arts College, and post graduation from L.A. Shah Law College. He was employed in LG Electronics India Pvt Ltd.

27Apr

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France, High Profilers, Profiles

Henri Weber, politician

Henri Weber a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France – died on 26 April 2020 after contracting COVID-19 in France. He was 75. He was a member of the Socialist Party (PS), which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education. Weber was born in Leninabad (now Khujand), Tajikistan, Soviet Union, from Jewish parents. His father was a watchmaker. Henri Weber was an activist in the May 1968 uprising and was a leading member of the Trotskyist Jeunesse communiste révolutionnaire (Revolutionary Communist Youth) and Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) before joining the PS. He was also a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, a member of the deleg...

24Apr

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Brazil, High Profilers, Profiles

Asdrubal Bentes, politician

Asdrubal Mendes Bentes a Brazilian politician and lawyer from the state of Pará was hospitalized in a Belém intensive care unit for coronavirus on April 23, 2020. He died from complications of COVID-19 at the Hospital Aberlardo Santos in the Icoaraci district of Belém on April 27, 2020, at the age of 80. He represented Pará in the national Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the National Congress of Brazil, for several tenures beginning in 1987. Most recently, he served in the Chamber of Deputies for four consecutive terms from February 1, 2001, to March 26, 2014. He was also a former president of the Paysandu Sport Club, a Brazilian football team based in Belém.

23Apr

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Brazil, High Profilers, Profiles

Gerson dos Santos Peres, politician

Gerson dos Santos Peres a Brazilian politician, lawyer and journalist from the state of Pará died in Belém from COVID-19. Gerson Peres was a lawyer by formation after finishing his law degree at Federal University of Pará, however outside of his political career he worked mostly as a journalists, employed by well known local newspapers such as O Liberal and A Província do Pará. As a politician, his first public position was as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Pará, which he held from 1955 to 1979. In 1978, Peres was indirectly elected Vice Governor of Pará, took office in 1979 and finished his tenure in 1983. In 1982, he was elected member of the Chamber of Deputies representing his birth state of Pará and after 4 consecutive successful reelections he remained a deputy...

23Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles

Koos van den Berg, politician

Jacobus Teunis "Koos" van den Berg –a Dutch politician of the Reformed Political Party (SGP) – died on 21 April 2020 in Nunspeet due to complications of COVID-19, at the age of 77. Born in The Hague, he served as a member of the House of Representatives from 3 June 1986 to 23 May 2002.

22Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles

Belco Bah, politician

Belco Bah a Malian politician who was a member of the National Assembly – died in Niono from COVID-19 on 21 April 2020. Bah was representing the Niono electoral district in the Ségou Region, from 2013 until his death in April 2020 from COVID-19. Bah was born in 1958. Bah was a member of the Malian Union for the African Democratic Rally (UM-RDA). He was elected to the National Assembly, representing Niono, in the 2013 Malian parliamentary election. He sought re-election in the 2020 Malian parliamentary election, but was defeated in the first round on 29 March 2020, by Diadié Bah of the Democratic Alliance for Peace (ADP-MALIBA). He was still in office when he died on 21 April, as the parliamentary election's second round had not yet concluded.

22Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles, United States

Jack Taylor, politician

Jack Taylor an American politician and businessman died from COVID-19 on April 21, 2020, at Casey's Pond Living Facility in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, at the age of 84. Taylor was born in Chicago, Illinois and served in the United States Navy. He received his bachelor's degree from Iowa State University. He lived in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and was involved in the coal mining and real estate businesses. Taylor served as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 1992 to 2000 and the Colorado Senate from 2000 to 2008 and was a Republican.

Heherson “Sonny” Turingan Alvarez, politician

21Apr

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High Profilers, Philippines, Profiles

Heherson “Sonny” Turingan Alvarez, politician

Heherson "Sonny" Turingan Alvarez a politician from the Philippines – died on April 20, 2020 due to complications from COVID-19. He served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines and the Senate of the Philippines. He was also Minister (then Secretary) of Agrarian Reform from 1986 to 1987 and Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources from 2001 to 2002. He was a young activist who participated in the 1971 constitutional convention. He refused to sign the Ferdinand Marcos regime backed constitution that gave extensions to the president's term in office. He fled with his family to the US leaving the Philippines behind as martial law took its toll on opposition activists. While in exile, he was one of the organizers of the Free Philippines movement that s...