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Amini founded the 'Stop Stoning Forever Campaign' in October 2006. She worked together with a well known feminist from Iran and two writers from outside the country who could publish without censorship. [1] She is fighting gender-based injustices in Iran's judicial system and is advocating for an end to stoning as a form of execution. [4]
Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh (Persian: محبوبه عباسقلیزاده) is an Iranian women's rights activist, researcher, journalist and film-maker. [1] She is a director of Zanan Broadcasting Network (www.zanantv.org), and an active member of the Stop Stoning Forever campaign and the Iranian Women's Charter movement.
In Iran, the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign was formed by various women's rights activists after a man and a woman were stoned to death in Mashhad in May 2006. The campaign's main goal is to legally abolish stoning as a form of punishment for adultery in Iran. [85]
She is one of the Iranians who have campaigned to eradicate the practice of capital punishment by stoning, particularly of women, in a campaign known as Stop Stoning Forever. [9] This campaign is one of several launched by Women's Field, a women's rights group of which Sadr was a member.
Another campaign was 'Stop Stoning Forever'. [33] By all accounts, the degree of mobilization and consciousness among women in Iran is remarkable. [34] The women's rights movement is vibrant and well-organized. [35] The movement has also been credited with very smart use of information and communication technologies. [36]
The section as it is, should be moved under a new larger section header called "campaigns" that includes both the One Million Signature campaign and Stop stoning Forever campaigns as sub-sections, both of which were by the way initiated and run by the same group of activists.
As a teenager, Mahbobi was a women's rights and students’ rights activist in Iran, which deemed her "waging war against God," according to the ruling Islamic Regime of Iran. Mahbobi initiated her activism against the suppression of the Islamic regime in Iran shortly after the 1979 revolution at the age of 11.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Iran. [2] The list of crimes punishable by death includes murder; rape; child molestation; homosexuality; drug trafficking; armed robbery; kidnapping; terrorism; burglary; incest; fornication; adultery; sodomy; sexual misconduct; prostitution; [3] [4] plotting to overthrow the Islamic government; political dissidence; sabotage; arson; rebellion ...