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Marina Nemat (Persian: مارینا نِمت, Russian: Марина Немат; born 22 April 1965) is the author of two memoirs about her life growing up in Iran, serving time in Evin Prison for speaking out against the Iranian government, escaping a death sentence and finally fleeing Iran to go and live in Canada.
Marina Nemat (born 1965), memoirist; O. Ghazal Omid, memoirist, author of A True Odyssey of a Woman's Struggle in Islamic Iran Against Personal and Political Forces ...
Marina Nemat (former political prisoner, Iran) (2010, 2011) Shirin Ebadi (Iranian Nobel Laureate) (2011) Iraq. Vian Dakhil (Iraqi parliamentarian) (2017)
Marina Nemat – Canadian author of Iranian descent and former political prisoner of the Iranian government. Born into a Christian family, she converted to Islam in order to avoid execution but later reverted to Christianity. [266]
[9] [10] In response, Marina Nemat posted on Facebook, "I hope [Goldwater] can produce evidence to back up her claims. If not, I would like to receive a public apology from her." [11] Nemat's Prisoner of Tehran was the first voted off, with Stacey McKenzie casting a tie-breaking vote. [12]
Marina Nemat (born 1965), Canadian–Iranian activist, past political prisoner and memoirist; Maryam Rajavi (born 1953), President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran; leader of the People's Mujahedin of Iran; Shadi Sadr (born 1974), lawyer, human rights advocate, essayist and journalist.
Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) is a series of global conferences run by the New York–based non-profit Human Rights Foundation under the slogan "Challenging Power". [1] OFF was founded in 2009 as a one-time event and has taken place annually ever since.
We Have A Dream: Global Summit Against Discrimination and Persecution was an international summit organized by the Geneva-based non-governmental organization UN Watch, and attended by an international collection of non-governmental organizations to discuss issues of discrimination and persecution, particularly those of racism, sexism, homophobia, and discrimination against minorities. [1]