Author: Maryam Namazie

Thanks to Janna Aanstoot, Magnus Timmerby and @SvHumanisterna for great coverage of #CDOslo & #ExMuslim movement. There is also an interview with me in the Islam issue, which you can read in full here. 1. You are the “Godmother” of ex-Muslims. If you could give three advices to a young Muslim who wants to leave…

At least five people, including a child, were killed, and 200 others were injured when Taleb Al Abdulmohsen deliberately drove into the Magdeburg Christmas Market on December 20. Abdulmohsen, a Saudi-born doctor and self-proclaimed ex-Muslim atheist activist, starkly illustrates that right-wing extremism knows no racial, cultural, or religious boundaries. Despite being an immigrant, he was…

On #HumanRightsDay2024 we rage against #SexApartheid#GenderApartheid in #Iran#Afghanistan Segregation based on sex like that based on race is humiliating. It’s dehumanising. It kills. It is a crime against humanity. #SexApartheidKills #SexApartheidHumiliates

*”Lifting the Veil on Violence Against Women Worldwide”* On November 24, 100 FEMEN activists from different countries make an uncompromising statement of resistance from Paris to all women everywhere suppressed by theocracies, wars and dictatorships. Marking International Day against Violence against Women, a hundred women march to embody a living symbol of global feminist defiance…

Maryam Namazie of One Law for All who organised the FEMEN/One Law for All protest in London on 8 November in support of Ahoo Daryaei said “Nude protest goes to the crux of the Woman, Life, Freedom revolution in Iran by reclaiming a battlefield for suppression into a battlefield for liberation of self and society.…

In Solidarity with Ahoo Daryaei ‎در همبستگی با آهو دریایی 8 Nov, 3:30-4:30pm Piccadilly Circus, London On 2 November, a female student from Tehran’s Science and Research University (apparently called Ahoo Daryaei) removed her clothes on campus in protest to being harassed by security forces over mandatory hijab rules. She was violently beaten, arrested and…