Soran Ismail

Soran Ismail (born December 3, 1987, in Iran), is a Swedish Kurdish comedian, TV personality and author of Kurdish descent who as an immigrant grew up in Knivsta, Uppsala County and lived most of his life in Sweden.

[1] He is well known for his participation in several TV and radio shows with a humour profile and has toured Sweden together with Magnus Betnér with a show called En skam för Sverige (A Shame for Sweden).

In November 2012, the video was leaked to the newspaper Expressen, and the video of the Sweden Democrats provoking Ismail caused such outrage that the latter (by then all members of the Swedish parliament) were forced to resign from their positions in the party.

Chief Prosecutor Mats Åhlund also initiated a preliminary investigation concerning racial agitation charges.

[5] In April 2021, an SVT documentary named Persona Non Grata, meant to rehabilitate Ismail's image after he was accused in the height of the Swedish #MeToo movement of multiple accounts of sexual assault and rape in 2017, was criticized by victims and journalists.