Sima Samar — Encyclopedia.com (International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences entry)

Encyclopedia.com entry on Sima Samar; it dates her birth to 4 February 1957 (a one-day variant on the followed date) and states 'Her family is from the Shi'ite Muslim Hazara minority' — a family attribution, not an attestation of her personal school — and records her 2002 resignation after a blasphemy accusation of which it says she was acquitted.