Category: News
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Join 1 October protest in London’s Trafalgar Square in solidarity with women’s revolution in Iran
22-year-old Mahsa Amini was visiting Tehran from Saqez, Iranian Kurdistan when she was arrested on 13 September for ‘improper’ veiling by the morality police. She was badly beaten according to eyewitnesses, arriving brain-dead at the hospital. She died in intensive care on 16 September. Outrage over her murder has sparked unprecedented protests across Iran. The…
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Protest for Iranian Lesbians on death row met with Allah-u-Akbar in Cologne
Protesters in Cologne, Germany, were met with aggressive heckling by a group of young Muslims on September 10. A video posted by Maryam Namazie, a London-based Iranian writer and activist, showed the counter-protesters shouting “Allahu Akbar.” Namazie and her groups protested against Iran, sentencing LGBTQ activists Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani and Elham Chobdar to death. According to Iran’s Urmia…
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IBKA awards Maryam Namazie its Sapio Award
IBKA, the International League of Non-Religious and Atheists, awarded CEMB Spokesperson Maryam Namazie the Sapio Prize for outstanding merits in advocating freethought, separation of state and church, and rational thinking in Cologne, Germany on 10 September 2022. Maryam Namazie shared the award with Mina Ahadi and Arzu Toker who started the first Council of Ex-Muslims…
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Maryam Namazie’s Opening Speech at #CelebratingDissent2022
Maryam Namazie’s Opening Speech at #CelebratingDissent2022 سخنرانی افتتاحیه مریم نمازی در کنفرانس بینالمللی تجلیل از ناهم اندیشی Maryam Namazie’s opening speech at #CelebratingDissent2022 calls the #exMuslim movement the new civil rights movement and says: #SalmanRushdie not the first nor the last attacked by #Iran & #Islamists. But as Chilean poet Pablo Neruda said, ‘You can…
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CD2022 Report: You can cut the flowers but you cannot stop the Spring
“We attended one of the largest gatherings of atheists and freethinkers in the world, Celebrating Dissent. An event with a very special tone – the aggression against Salman Rushdie on everyone’s minds. More than ever, these atheists wanted to show that they are more and more numerous and determined to win the battle against obscurantism.” – Charlie Hebdo, 24 August 2022…
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Maryam Namazie Interviews Richard Dawkins at Celebrating Dissent 2022
Maryam Namazie interviews Scientist Richard Dawkins at Celebrating Dissent 2022 in Cologne, Germany.
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Iranian Atheist Soheil Arabi wins Freethought Champions Award at Celebrating Dissent 2022
Iranian atheist Soheil Arabi who was on death row for blasphemy and is currently in internal exile after 8 years in prison in Iran was awarded the Freethought Champions Award at Celebrating Dissent 2022 organised by Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and Freethought Lebanon. In his acceptance video, he said: “I have no regrets that…
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Cologne: Nonebelievers celebrate Salman Rushdie and prepare for the future
Cologne : les mécréants célèbrent Salman Rushdie et préparent l’avenir, Charlie Hebdo, 24 August 2022 LAURE DAUSSY · 25 AOÛT 2022PARU DANS L’ÉDITION 1570 DU 24 AOÛT Nous avons pu assister à l’un des plus grands rassemblements d’athées et de libres-penseurs du monde entier, Celebrating Dissent, organisé à Cologne par Maryam Namazie, cofondatrice du Council of Ex-Muslims of…
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Maryam Namazie: The Islamists are afraid of Us, Charlie Hebdo
Maryam Namazie: “The Islamists are afraid of us”, Trend Detail, 25 August 2022 Translation of Interview in Charlie Hebdo: Maryam Namazie : « Les islamistes ont peur de nous », Charlie Hebdo, 24 August 2022 She fled the Iran of the Mullahs and founded, in Great Britain, the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. We caught up…
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Brave Women for 2022: Maryam Namazie on Blasphemous Women
Maryam Namazie speaking on Blasphemous Women on 13 June 2022 at Brave Women for 2022 talk organised by Center for Civil Courage from Croatia and Women’s Solidarity from Serbia. Brave Women for 2022 presents courageous women from all over the world whose thoughts and deeds encourage us every day in our struggle for women’s liberation.…