Mina Ahadi

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Mina Ahadi
Personal details
Born 1956
Abhar, Iran
Occupation Human Rights

Mina Ahadi (Persian: مینا احدی ‎) born 1956 is an Iranian-Austrian human rights activist. As a Communist political activist she is a current member of the Central Committee and Politburo of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran.

Mina Ahadi is opposed to faith based laws and promotes citizenship rights and one secular law for all. 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.[1] The Central Council of Ex-Muslims aims to break the taboo that comes with renouncing Islam and to oppose apostasy laws and political Islam.

Life

Her husband, who was also a political activist, was executed on the date of the couple's anniversary. His execution became her motivation to fight against capital punishment.[1]

She is currently living and working in Germany and recently helped to gain the freedom of Nazanin Fatehi 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.[1][2]

On 20 October 2007 she was awarded the Secularist of the Year prize by the UK's National Secular Society.[3]

She is the mother of two daughters.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 (German) Zentralrat der Ex-Muslime: Kurzbiographie Mina Ahadi, 2007
  2. ↑ (German) Anna Reimann: Vorkämpfer für Islam-Austritte mit dem Tod bedroht, Der Spiegel, February 21, 2007
  3. ↑ National Secular Society:Iranian dissident Mina Ahadi wins Secularist of the Year prize, accessed on June 6, 2009
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