Mina Ahadi ( fa, مینا احدی, Minâ Ahadi, born 1956) is an Iranian-Austrian political
activist. As a
Communist political
activist, she is a member of the Central Committee and Politburo of the
Worker-communist Party of Iran.
Advocacy
Mina Ahadi is opposed to faith-based laws and promotes citizenship rights and one secular law. Ahadi is also the main figure of
International Committee Against Executions and International Committee Against Stoning. She is also the main founder of the German
Central Council of Ex-Muslims
The Central Council of Ex-Muslims (German: ''Zentralrat der Ex-Muslime'', ''ZdE'') is a German association ( Verein) advocating for the rights and interests of non-religious, secular persons of Muslim heritage who have left Islam. It was found ...
. The Central Council of Ex-Muslims aims to break the taboo that comes with renouncing Islam and to oppose apostasy laws and
Islam.
Life
Ahadi's husband, who was also a political activist, was executed in Iran on the date of the couple's anniversary. His execution became her motivation to fight against capital punishment.
She lives and works in Germany and helped to gain the freedom of
Nazanin Fatehi
Nazanin (Mahabad) Fatehi ( fa, نازنین فاتحی; born 1987) is an Iranian woman who was sentenced to death for stabbing a man who allegedly tried to rape her and her 15-year-old niece, events occurring when she herself was a 17-year-old ...
in Iran. Due to death-threats against her, she has been living under police protection from the moment of her public appearance as the chairwoman of the Central Council of Ex-Muslims.
[ Zentralrat der Ex-Muslime]
Kurzbiographie Mina Ahadi
(German), 2007 Since October 2018 she is official "ambassador" for the
registered association intaktiv e.V. which is against circumcision of male children.
On 20 October 2007, she was awarded the
Secularist of the Year Secularist of the Year, also known as the Irwin Prize, is an award presented annually by the National Secular Society in "recognition of an individual or an organisation considered to have made an outstanding contribution to the secularist movement. ...
prize by the
UK's
National Secular Society
The National Secular Society (NSS) is a British campaigning organisation that promotes secularism and the separation of church and state. It holds that no one should gain advantage or disadvantage because of their religion or lack of it. It was ...
.
National Secular Society
The National Secular Society (NSS) is a British campaigning organisation that promotes secularism and the separation of church and state. It holds that no one should gain advantage or disadvantage because of their religion or lack of it. It was ...
br>Iranian dissident Mina Ahadi wins Secularist of the Year prize
, accessed on June 6, 2009 Ahadi has two daughters.
See also
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Walid Husayin
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Ehsan Jami
Ehsan Jami (born April 20, 1985) is an Iranian-born Iranian-Dutch politician, activist and author who co-founded the former Central Committee for Ex-Muslims. He was previously a member of the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) before becoming active in th ...
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Maryam Namazie
Maryam Namazie ( fa, مریم نمازی; born 1966) is a British-Iranian secularist, communist and human rights activist, commentator, and broadcaster.
Early life
Most of her early work focused on refugee rights, especially in Sudan, Turkey, ...
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Arzu Toker
Arzu Toker (born 1952) is a German-speaking writer, journalist, publicist and translator of Turkish descent.
Biography
Toker was born in 1952 in Halfeti, Turkey. She moved to Germany in 1974, where she has lived ever since.
Early 2007, she ...
References
1956 births
Former Muslim critics of Islam
Iranian agnostics
Iranian anti–death penalty activists
Iranian communists
Iranian dissidents
Iranian former Shia Muslims
21st-century Iranian women politicians
21st-century Iranian politicians
Living people
People from Abhar
Worker-communist Party of Iran politicians
German critics of Islam
Former Muslims turned agnostics or atheists
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