Category: News
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We are all Farkhunda
The below is a shortened version of my speech at Marea Feminist Review and Consulta Torinese per la Laicita public events in Genoa and Turin, Italy during 27-30 March 2015. Today, we are all Farkhunda. You know her by now – a 27 year old woman accused by a mullah of being an “infidel” who…
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I will not accept Trinity College Dublin conditions on my talk
I am to speak at Trinity College Dublin on Monday 23 March 2015 on “Apostasy and the Rise of Islamism”. I’ve just been informed, however, that college security (why security?) has claimed that the event would show the college is “one-sided” and would be “antagonising” to “Muslim students”; they threatened to cancel my talk. After further consultation with college management, they…
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Free Jafar Azimzadeh now
The following is the translation of the statement by the Free Union of Workers of Iran (Ettehadieh Azad e Kargaran e Iran) following the sentencing of Jafar Azimzadeh, the President of the Free Union, for his trade union activities. Our campaign condemns this blatant attack by the government in Iran on the Free Union and…
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Call for political action to Free Raif Badawi and Waleed Abu Al-Khair
This call will be sent to the UK Prime Minister and the leaders of other political parties as an Open Letter at 5pm on Tuesday, 10th March. Please continue to add your name after that time. Further action will be necessary. Sign on to the letter here. Dear Sir/ Madam Saudi blogger Raif Badawi is…
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Support ‘immoral’ and ‘corrupt’ Bread and Roses
Support Bread & Roses TV or NanoGoleSorkh, a taboo-breaking, free-thinking weekly programme broadcast in Iran via New Channel TV and available on Youtube, which the Islamic regime of Iran has labelled “corrupt” & “immoral”. You know you want to. Here is how you can do so. از برنامه نان و گل سرخ که جمهورى اسلامى…
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Like Mukto-muna, we are united in our grief and remain undefeated
SIGN BELOW STATEMENT HERE. We are outraged by the senseless and brutal hacking to death of well known scientist, atheist and writer Avijit Roy and the serious attack on his wife and blogger, Rafida Ahmed Bonya, by Islamists in Bangladesh. Avijit had received numerous threats over the years for publishing articles critical of Islam, and promoting…
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Two Brothers, Ali and Habib Afshari were executed on the same day!
See statement of International Committee against Execution below: On Friday, February 20th the Afshari family was informed that these two political prisoners, Ali Afshari and Habibollah Afshari were hanged on Thursday morning. ICAE News Agency: Within the past two days, six political prisoners who were on death row were transferred to an unknown location and…
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Stop executing “apostates” and “blasphemers” and release them now!
Press Release of Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain reproduced below: On 22 February 2015, a Saudi court sentenced a man in his twenties to death by beheading for apostasy. The identity of the man has not been made public but, according to Al-Shabaka, he was arrested last year and is charged with becoming an atheist…
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Saman Nasim must not be executed tomorrow
19 February Update: Saman Nasim’s brother says his brother has not been executed according to officials. We must keep the pressure on. Listen to interview with Hesam Yousefi of International Committee against Execution here. Saman Nasim is an alleged juvenile offender who was arrested when he was 17 years old. The Kurdish political prisoner has been transferred…
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Press Release: Much needed 7 February Conference on Sharia Law, Apostasy and Secularism
PRESS RELEASE 6 FEBRUARY 2015 Secularists will be gathering on 7 February 2015 in London for a day conference on Sharia Law, Apostasy and Secularism. The event follows an historic conference in October 2014 on the Religious-Right, Secularism and Civil Rights. Speakers at tomorrow’s sold-out conference will discuss freedom of expression, apostasy and blasphemy laws,…
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We are being slaughtered by your secondary enemy!
OPEN LETTER TO THE LEFT AND FAR LEFT While you focus on US imperialism (no other) and on capitalism that exploits the masses in Muslim-majority countries and in the diaspora, children are being murdered in schools in Pakistan, just as they were assassinated in Algeria in the nineties, and just as journalists, intellectuals, artists, activists…
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On Meeting of Women’s Rights Campaigners with Law Society
On Tuesday 13th January, women’s rights groups, including Southall Black Sisters, One Law for All, Nari Diganta and the Iranian & Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO), met with Mark Stobbs, the Law Society’s Director of Legal Policy at the SBS office. Our organisations welcomed the Law Society’s decision to withdraw its guidance on ‘Sharia’ compliant…