Category: News
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The Premiere of Art of Resistance
CEMB Resident Artist Victoria Gugenheim has given a keynote address on Art and Freedom of Expression and shown an exhibition entitled Terror, Trauma, Transformation featuring CEMB’s activist work at the World Humanist Congress in Copenhagen during 3-6 August. ‘The Art of Resistance,’ a 30-minute documentary featuring Victoria and Maryam Namazie’s approach to freedom of expression…
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There are no rights in Islam, Maryam Namazie’s remarks in Durham and Berlin
See Maryam’s opening remarks at Durham University Union: Islam is not compatible with human rights Watch Maryam’s opening remarks at WBZ Berlin Social Science Centre: There is no women’s rights in Islam
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CEMB Celebrated Liberation as a Riot and Woman, Life, Freedom Revolution in Iran at Pride
On 1 July, Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB) marched at Pride in London to celebrate Liberation as Riot and defend the revolution in Iran that is challenging Islam and Islamism and defending Woman, Life, Freedom, LGBT rights, secularism and more. On this day, we also raged against the execution and murder of women, dissenters,…
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Our Collective Rage: Rise Up Against Executions in Iran
The Islamic regime of Iran’s machinery of execution has never stopped since its inception. The wave of repression, killings and executions has intensified, especially in Baluchistan, Kurdistan and Khuzestan. The numbers of executed this month alone have been at least 142 people; so far this year, 307 people have been executed in Iran. Many more…
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Women #Dance4Freedom
On 29 April, Women and girls came together to #Dance4Freedom in Piccadilly Circus in Solidarity with Woman, Life, Freedom Revolution in Iran on International Day of Dance. Women in Iran have long protested the Islamic regime of Iran’s suppression by dancing. We continue this tradition on International Dance Day with #Dance4Freedom in support of women…
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International Women’s Day homage to ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ and the women’s revolution in Iran
The Royal College of Physicians in London was the scene of a stunning International Women’s Day, 8 March, evening in homage to the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Revolution in Iran. Photos of the event can be seen here. Maryam Namazie, the event organiser and One Law for All Spokesperson says: ‘On International Women’s Day, will pay…
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An Open Letter from Iranian and Afghan Women, International Lawyers and Global Women Leaders Urging Countries to Recognize the Crime of Gender Apartheid
One Law for All Spokesperson Maryam Namazie joins a coalition of female lawyers, judges, activists and other global leaders to name the atrocities against the women and girls of Iran and Afghanistan for what they are: Gender Apartheid. This effort is being led by legal experts who are pursuing a path to have Gender Apartheid recognised…
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Unveiled and Unbroken, Woman’s Revolution in Iran, Queer Majority, 18 February 2023
Unveiled and Unbroken, Woman’s Revolution in Iran, Queer Majority, 18 February 2023 When Mahsa Amini was dragged off last year to undergo “re-education” for “improper” veiling, it was business as usual for Iran’s Islamic morality police, which harasses, imprisons, and brutalises thousands of women every year. But Amini wasn’t merely arrested and tortured. She was killed. Her murder became…
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Online crimes of harassment, threats and incitement to violence
21 November 2022 Commander Richard Smith Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command Victoria Embankment, London SW1A 2JL RE: Reporting online crimes of harassment, threats and incitement to violence I, Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born writer and campaigner have been facing a barrage of threats and incitement to violence for over two months. There are hundreds, if not…
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Iran: International Day of Action in Solidarity with the revolutionary uprising and workers’ movement in Iran
Wednesday 8 February 2023 4pm – Rally in Parliament Square, London 5pm – Meeting at the Houses of Parliament, Westminster The Boothroyd Committee Room PCH Organised by the Solidarity with the Workers’ Movement in Iran Committe Following the murder of Mahsa Amini by the morality police in Iran on 16 September 2022 and the…