Mina Ahadi

Mina Ahadi

Mina Ahadi (Persian: منی احدی ) (born 1956) is an Iranian Communist political activist and current member of the Central Committee and Politburo of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran.

Mina Ahadi is also the main figure of International Committee against executions and International Committee against stoning, two entities which serve as front organisations of the extremist Worker-Communist Party of Iran.^[1][2] She is also the main founder of the German Central Council of Ex-Muslims.^[3]

Life

Mina Ahadi was born in Abhar, Iran to an Iranian Azeri family.^{[citation needed]} During Iranian Revolution she was in Tabriz and participated in the revolution as a communist.

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.^[3]

She is currently living and working in Germany and recently helped to gain the freedom of Nazanin Fateh 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.^[3][4]

On 20 October 2007 she was awarded the Secularist of the Year prize by the UK's National Secular Society.^[5]

She is the mother of two daughters.

See also

• Maryam Namazie

References

1. ^ http://www.adpi.net/
2. ^ [1]
3. ^ ^{a b c} (German) Zentralrat der Ex-Muslime: Kurzbiographie Mina Ahadi, 2007
4. ^ (German) Anna Reimann: Vorkämpfer für Islam-Austritte mit dem Tod bedroht, Der Spiegel, February 21, 2007
5. ^ National Secular Society:Iranian dissident Mina Ahadi wins Secularist of the Year prize, accessed on June 6, 2009

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