Campaign

  • REYHANEH JABBARI WAS EXECUTED
    REYHANEH JABBARI WAS EXECUTED International Committee Against Execution Press Release 25 October 2014 To the millions of people who followed the fate of this young girl, to the thousands who took to the streets to save dear Reyhaneh, to the thousands of […]
  • Reyhaneh Jabbari’s stay of execution We must keep the pressure on
    Reyhaneh Jabbari’s stay of execution We must keep the pressure on Reyhaneh Jabbari’s lawyer, Mohmmad Ali Jadari Foroghi, has said that Reyhaneh’s name has been removed from the execution list and her file is scheduled for review. The worldwide protest in […]
  • Save Rayhaneh Jabbari from execution by hanging
    Save Rayhaneh Jabbari from execution by hanging Iran: Save Rayhaneh Jabbari from execution by hanging Reyhaneh Jabbari is now 26 years old and has been in Tehran’s dreaded Evin prison since 2007. In July 2007 she was alone inside a coffee shop and […]
  • The Law Society must withdraw its guidance on Sharia-succession rules
    The Law Society must withdraw its guidance on Sharia-succession rules We, the undersigned, are appalled to learn that the Law Society, the representative body for solicitors in England and Wales, has issued Sharia-related guidance on wills, succession […]
  • Iran Stoning Case Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani Given Leave
    Iran Stoning Case: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani Given Leave Iran Stoning Case: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani Given Leave Iranian mother of two, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who had been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery and later given a 10-year jail […]

Our Voices

  • Gender segregation is humiliating and damaging
    This piece was first published in The Freethinker. Segregation was humiliating. Just the reality of signs that said you couldn’t use front doors or you couldn’t use this water fountain implied that you were subhuman … Every time I complied with a sign, I […]
  • Court of Appeal: gender segregation is sex discrimination
    Join protest at Court of Appeal hearing on 11 and 12 July 2017 at 9.30am at Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London, WC2A 2LL. Pack out the public gallery in the court so that the judiciary is under no illusion as to what is at stake. Publicise our […]
  • No Apologies
    This is my letter to you, not you the racist or Islamist but you who I should call friend: I Accuse‬. Published in sister-hood, 27 June 2017. Spanish Translation This is my letter to you. Not you, the Islamist, who wants me silent or dead whilst dreaming […]
  • Religion is fundamentally patriarchal and anti-woman
    Below is my monthly column for The Freethinker entitled: Religion is fundamentally patriarchal and anti-woman, 25 May 2016 As US suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton once said: You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which […]
  • اسلام و اسلام سياسى بزگترين سد راه رهائى زنان
    به دعوت سازمان پلاتفرم دابران براى شركت در كنگره مؤسس فمنيسم روشنگرى به سليمانيه سفر كرده بودم. من درباره اسلام و اسلام سياسى بعنوان مهمترين سد راه رهائى زنان سخنرانى كردم۔ ترجمه متن سخنرانى ام   اسلام  و اسلام سياسى بزگترين سد راه رهائى زنان (* اليزابت […]

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