Author: Maryam Namazie

I am speaking on the bombing of Iran and the monarchy on the Last Word programme on More4 Channel TV tonight at 11:05pm. Watch it if you can.

The Blanket has just published the following profile, written by Anthony McIntyre, which you can read at http://lark.phoblacht.net/AM04040610g.html. Maryam Namazie

Abdul Rahman, the convert to Christianity, who had been deemed an apostate and faced execution in ‘liberated’ Afghanistan, has been granted fast-track asylum, and spirited to Italy. We are told he will eventually be able to decide whether he will remain in Italy or move to Germany! Ahh, how nice of them. They are letting…

People fleeing political Islam must be given asylum, full stop. You may think that this statement is outrageous. Aren’t most of them ‘failed’, ‘illegals’, ‘scroungers’? Isn’t only a handful ‘genuine’? No, they all are genuine. And for the very simple reason that medieval Islamic laws are antithetical to 21st century lives and values. Let me…

Today, I took part in the Heaven and Earth TV Programme on BBC with Stephen Green of Christian Voice infamy. The bible-thumper (he had actually brought his bible with him) kept equating his religious belief with my demand for secularism and said basically that if one is to be imposed why not his ‘world view’…

* In Iran, Tehran bus workers demanding their rights have been arrested, including their wives and children, and some tortured. * In Afghanistan, teachers defending the right of girls to an education are threatened with death. * In Iraq, women’s rights activists are threatened for demanding equality and freedom. * In Iran, journalists who published…

There has been much talk about my participation and that of others in the March for Free Expression which was held on March 25 in Trafalgar Square. Though much of it is quite absurd, some need commenting nonetheless. Let me first say that I find the criticism of being allied(!) with or even in coalition…

On the anniversary of the war on Iraq, we watch on our TV screens with complete disbelief and horror at the abyss that was once a country albeit a dictatorship. Though we always said this would happen, it is still so hard to believe that things can actually always get so much worse than we…

“Life without Fear” Public Meeting Islamic regime of Iran, political Islam and the right to asylum Tuesday 21st March 2006 6:00pm-9:00pm Conway Hall Lion Square London WC1R 4RL Speaker: Maryam Namazie Campaign for the rights of Iranian asylum seekers in the UK We urge you all to support and join “Life Without Fear” Campaign. Together…