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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]
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (Persian: سکینه محمدی آشتیانی; born 1967) is an Iranian woman convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and adultery.She gained international notoriety for originally being sentenced to death by stoning for her crimes.
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.
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]
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]
A few weeks after it began, the scale and intensity of Iran’s uprising are tangibly diminishing an already weak regime in Tehran.. Women, who for more than four decades bore the brunt of the ...
As a practicing lawyer, Shadi Sadr has successfully defended several women activists and journalists in court, who had been sentenced to execution. [4] 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]
Stoning to death is controversial in Iran, and often used against women. In 2010 there was strong international criticism of Iran because of the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. Ashtiani was freed in March 2014, after nine years on death row. [5] Another Iranian woman, Fariba Khalegi, is believed to be in prison and in danger of stoning. [4]