Remember Gulnaz? She was the woman who was raped and imprisoned in Afghanistan and then ‘pardoned’ to marry her rapist. Below is a programme on…
Interview with Alex Aan, Indonesian in prison for ‘insulting’ Islam
Rafiq Mahmood visited Alex Aan on Thursday. Alex is the 30 year old Indonesian civil servant who has been charged with ‘insulting’ Islam in an…
Nightmare week
This week I have been dealing with a number of really heart-wrenching cases. Apart from the asylum cases that need support, and desperate emails and…
Every morning I wake up on the wrong side of capitalism
There’s been a call for a general strike on May 1 – International Workers Day. No work, no school, no shopping, no banking, no trading.…
Update on Alex Aan and Hamza Kashgari: We must keep the pressure on
ALEX AAN If you recall, I had told you about the case of 30 year old atheist Alex Aan, the civil servant who had been…
Afghanistan’s female banksy
Have you seen the graffiti work of 24 year old Shamsia Hassani, an associate professor of Sculpture at Kabul University in Afghanistan and a founding…
For sweet Du’a
Deeyah just reminded me that yesterday was the anniversary of Du’a Khalil’s stoning in Iraqi Kurdistan. Here’s my speech marking her murder at a conference…
The wonders of HarassMap
Have you all heard of Harassmap? It’s a fantastic application for mobile phones in Egypt, which allows for reporting of incidences of sexual harassment via…
Taslima and the Burqa
Taslima Nasrin has joined us on Freethoughtblogs! Can things get any better? If you haven’t visited her blog yet, please do. Her post today is…
I’d love to do this in a mosque
Two young women, Maria Alyokhin and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, have been arrested as part of an investigation into an all-female band of activists called Pussy Riot…