Occupation Human Rights Name Mina Ahadi | Role Activist Awards Secularist of the Year | |
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Born 1956
Abhar, Iran Organizations founded Central Council of Ex-Muslims Similar People Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Maryam Namazie, Mohammad Mostafaei, Reyhaneh Jabbari, Shahla Jahed | ||
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Mina Ahadi (Persian: مینا احدی) (born 1956) is an Iranian-Austrian political activist. As a Communist political activist she is a current member of the Central Committee and Politburo of the Worker-communist Party of Iran.
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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. The Central Council of Ex-Muslims aims to break the taboo that comes with renouncing Islam and to oppose apostasy laws and political Islam.
Mina Ahadi on stoning, revolution and women's rights
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.
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.
On 20 October 2007 she was awarded the Secularist of the Year prize by the UK's National Secular Society.
She is the mother of two daughters.
