Azem Shpend Hajdari (Albanian: [ˈazɛm hajˈdaɾi], March 11, 1963 – September 12, 1998) was the leader of the student movement in 1990–1991 that led to the fall of communism in Albania.

Political activities in his youth included serving as a leader of the students' movement which overthrew communism in Albania.

In 1996 he was the Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on the Public Order and the National Intelligence Service, and is November 1996 became President of the United Independent Albanian Trade Unions.

On March 22, 1991, he received a package containing a severed rooster head and a letter written in blood: "Azem Hajdari, you are sentenced to death.

"[4] On June 4, 1998, at about 22:30, Hajdari and other members of the DP (including Jozefina Topalli and Vili Minarolli) were ambushed by gunmen.

[4] On September 18, 1997, Hajdari fought with Gafur Mazreku, a Member of Parliament of the Prime Minister Fatos Nano's governing Socialist Party, in a dispute over a proposed increase in the added value tax.

[5] On December 17, the court located in Tirana sentenced Mazreku to eleven years in prison for attempted murder.

[11] Hajdari died of severe shock from trauma and hemorrhaging due to numerous wounds to the chest and stomach.

[13] After 72 hours, the government restored order and reclaimed tanks and armored personnel carriers seized by DP supporters.

Parliament subsequently lifted Berisha's immunity due to his alleged role in what the government described as a coup d'état, but no charges were laid.

On October 2, 1998, Hajdari was posthumously awarded honorary citizenship of Tirana,[18] and in 2007 he was decorated with the Skanderbeg's Order by president Bamir Topi.