Category: News
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Amina must be back at school next week!
Amina is reportedly being detained by family members who found her with the assistance of the police! She is stressed and has no freedom of movement or communication. Rather than arresting the Islamist who threatened Amina with death by stoning and flogging, the police have assisted her family in detaining her against her will. Amina…
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A Chicago School’s charge of Islamophobia
UPDATE: A reader wrote to the school and received the following response from the principal: Please check your sources related to the news article stating I decided to remove Persepolis from my school. That is completely untrue and slanderous. I only reported to my staff that I was informed the district was contemplating removing the…
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Don’t stop fighting for Amina
There have been reports in the media that “Amina’s lawyer” has said she is safe at home. If she is so safe, why is she no longer able to speak to anyone or be in contact with others? And is this Amina’s lawyer or her family’s? Clearly, it’s the family’s! According to FEMEN’s (edited) statement: The…
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Council of Ex-Muslims of Morocco: the first public atheist organisation in country with state religion of Islam
Click “like” on the new organisation’s Facebook page to support them! See English, Arabic and French Statement below: Morocco’s state religion is Islam. Whilst Article 3 of the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, atheists and unbelievers are not recognised. Though apostasy is not a prosecutable offence in the Penal Code, “incitements in order to shake…
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Let’s Breast Them
UPDATED 3 April 2013 (More photos and actions below) Demonstrations and actions are now being held in Brussels, Rio, Montreal, Vancouver, Paris, Berlin, Bremen, Bonn, Frankfurt, Malmo, Gotenburg, Stockholm, Milan, Kiev, London, San Francisco, Warsaw and more. See below for more details. The 19 year old Tunisian Amina who posted a topless photo of herself with the slogan “my…
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Iran: another worker arrested as persecution of labour activists intensifies
Following the recent arrest of six labour activists in the city of Sanandaj in the west of Iran, another worker by the name of Ghaleb Hosseini (pictured on right), a member of the Co-ordinating Committee to Help Form Workers’ Organisations, was arrested on 19 March. The activists arrested earlier in the month are Vafa Ghaderi,…
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Fear for the life of jailed Iranian labour activist Mohammad Jarahi
There are growing fears for the life of imprisoned labour activist Mohammad Jarahi, who is now known to be suffering from thyroid cancer. Jarahi, who is a member of the Committee to Pursue the Establishment of Workers’ Organisations, was arrested last June and sentenced to five years in prison. He is now in the second…
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آمنه صداي ماست
آمنه دختر 19 ساله تونسی که عکس برهنه خود را روی سایتها گذاشته بود٬ اکنون در خطر مرگ قرار دارد. در این عکس آمنه روی بالا تنه برهنه خود نوشته “بدن من متعلق به خودم است و ناموس هيچ کسی نیست”. آخوند عادل عالمی رئيس يک سازمان اسلامي ٬ خواهان شلاق زدن و سنگسار آمنه…
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Release Amina Now
UPDATE 23/03/2013 One of the people who kidnapped Amina has been boasting that they did it for “her own good”. It is unclear though whether she has been hospitalised or held somewhere else. Her phone has been taken from her and communication with her has been stopped so we do not receive any information from…
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Right to heal
It’s the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. To mark this anniversary, Iraqis and U.S. military veterans have come together to hold the U.S. government accountable for the lasting effects of war and the rights of veterans and civilians to heal. The Iraq war is not over for Iraqi civilians and U.S. veterans…
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The other Amina
On Saturday, Moroccans came out to demand reform of the rape law and express outrage after 16 year old Amina Filali killed herself following marriage with her rapist – allowing him to stay out of jail and “preserving family honour”. She ingested rat poison after her “husband” had severely beaten her. When will this barbarity…
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4 April 2013: International Day to Defend Amina; she represents us
UPDATES AND MORE: 4 April 2013: Today is our day to defend our Amina 3 April 2013: For Amina: My body against political Islam. No Sharia. 3 April 2013: On 4 April, we will breast them! 2 April 2013: Why an International Day to Defend Amina? 2 April 2013: I have no regrets 28 March…