Category: News
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First legal atheist organisation formed in Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey – The first legally recognized Atheist Organization of the Balkans, Middle East and among all Muslim-majority countries, has been founded in Istanbul, Turkey. The organization, titled Ateizm Dernegi, was founded in Istanbul on April 16, 2014. The focus of Ateizm Dernegi is to advocate for human rights, especially the right to irreligion –…
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Support Bread and Roses: We need your help
Dear friend 61 donors have helped us kick-start Bread and Roses, a taboo-breaking, freethinking political-social TV magazine in Persian and English broadcast in Iran and the Middle East as well as globally via satellite and social media. The programme is hosted by Maryam Namazie, an award-winning secularist and atheist blogger and campaigner; Fariborz Pooya, founder…
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The Problem with Sharia
Here’s Bread and Roses second TV programme in English on Sharia Law with Fariborz Pooya, Bahram Soroush and myself. We have already bought good microphones (on credit card) so the sound quality is a lot better than the one before on nude protest. Pragna Patel of Southall Black Sisters is interviewed here on the issue…
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Iran: jailed labour activist moved to interrogation unit of prison
Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, who has been in prison since June 2010 on a five-year sentence for union activities, has been moved to Ward 209 of Evin Prison in Tehran. Ward 209 is the interrogation unit of the prison, run by the Ministry of Intelligence, where torture and maltreatment is routinely practised as part of the interrogations.…
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Law Society, Gender Segregation, Islamism in Schools, our opposition to Sharia Watch campaign, October 2014 conference and new office space
Dear Friend I am writing to give you an update of our work. Law Society Protest One Law for All, Southall Black Sisters, Centre for Secular Space and LSE SUASH organised a successful 28 April rally at the Law Society to oppose the Society’s legitimisation of discriminatory Sharia-compliant rules. The rally finished with protesters tearing…
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Iran: Azim Zadeh and Mohammadi moved to the interrogation ward of Evin Prison
Continued detention of two union leaders Monday, 5 May 2014 The Free Union of Workers in Iran (Ettehadiye Azad e Kargaran e Iran) has reported about the continued detention of the leader and an Executive Committee member of the Union in Evin Prison in Tehran. Jafar Azim Zadeh and Jamil Mohammadi were arrested in the…
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Bread and Roses TV: On Nude Protest
Bread and Roses first programme in English on Nude Protest is ready! Hosts are Maryam Namazie, Fariborz Pooya, and Bahram Soroush. We have a wonderful interview in it with Amina Sboui and Aliaa Magda Elmahdy. You can view the programme here. It’s also embedded below: It took much longer than expected because we didn’t have…
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Iran: Two prominent trade union leaders arrested ahead of May Day
Wednesday, 30 April 2014 The Free Union of Workers in Iran (Ettehadiye Azad e Kargaran e Iran) has reported that two of its Executive Committee members have been arrested. Jafar Azim Zadeh and Jamil Mohammadi were arrested during a raid on their homes in the capital Tehran at 1am this morning. The police also raided…
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Press Release: Wills without bigotry – protest against the Law Society
About 70 protesters rallied outside the office of the Law Society to condemn their endorsement of discriminatory sharia law on April 28 2014. The protest was organised by anti-racist, feminist and human rights groups, namely One Law for All, Southall Black Sisters, Centre for Secular Space, and London School of Economics SU Atheist, Secularist and…
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Equality before the law is not just an empty phrase
The below is an interview with Pragna Patel of Southall Black Sisters published in the April 2014 issue of Unveiled: A Publication of Fitnah – Movement for Women’s Liberation: On the Law Society’s Discriminatory Guidance on Sharia-Compliant Inheritance and Wills Interview with Pragna Patel Maryam Namazie: British law already allows people to leave their estates to…
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HOLD THESE DATES
JOIN PROTEST AGAINST LAW SOCIETY DATE: Monday 28 April 2014 TIME: 17:00-18:00 hours PLACE: The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL Just show up. Also join the Facebook Page. Speakers include: Maryam Namazie, Spokesperson, One Law For All; Pragna Patel, Founder, Southall Black Sisters; Peter Tatchell, Founder, Peter Tatchell Foundation; Yasmin Rehman, Fellow…
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They kill atheists and we are deemed terrorists!
Here is my opening statement on the International Atheism panel with Faisal Saeed Al-Mutar and Cristina Rad at AACon2014: Punishing apostates is a long-standing and fundamental feature of all major religions. Islam is no different except that Islamism – an extreme Right movement with Islam as its banner – is this era’s inquisition and totalitarianism.…