Shiva Nazar Ahari

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Shiva Nazar Ahari (2009)

Shiva Nazar Ahari ( Persian شیوا نظر آهاری Shiva Nazar Ahari ; Born June 10, 1984 ) is an Iranian human rights activist , journalist and blogger .

Life

Shiva Nazar Ahari is a founding member and spokeswoman for the Student Committee on the Defense of Political Prisoners and was arrested in August 2004 and sentenced to five years in prison, of which four years were suspended. She is also a member of the Committee of Human Rights Rapporteurs . On June 14, 2009, she was arrested at her home two days after the controversial and protested presidential election . Her lawyer, Shadi Sadr, was also arrested on July 19, 2009, and released on July 28 under a prison closure ordered by Ali Khamene'i .

On December 21, 2009, Ahari was arrested on his way to Qom to attend the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri , an important figure in the opposition camp. She was accused of starting a conspiracy, holding illegal gatherings, propaganda against the regime, disrupting public order and being an "enemy of God". She has also been charged with supporting the People's Mujahedin , an opposition organization on the US terrorist list. Ahari denied all allegations. On September 12, 2010, Ahari was released from Evin Prison after paying a bail of 395,000 euros . A week later, she was sentenced to six years in prison and 76 lashes for "subversive activities". Shortened to four years on appeal, she was imprisoned from 2012 to 2016.

In March 2010, the Iranian human rights lawyer and women's rights activist Shadi Sadr awarded the US State Department 's International Women of Courage Award to Ahari. Sadr did not attend the ceremony and declared her absence by saying, "In the hope that my absence will draw the attention of the international community to her dire situation".

Ahari is one of the initiators of the “One Million Signatures” campaign, launched in 2007, which calls for equality for women in Iran before the law.

She was honored with the Theodor Haecker Prize on April 17, 2011 in absentia .

Mediated by the International Network for Cities of the Future (ICORN), Ahari has been living in Ljubljana since October 2018 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shiva Nazar Ahari in the MoralHeroes database
  2. ↑ a b The list of arrested reformers on taz.de from August 17, 2009
  3. ↑ a b Website of the Feminist School
  4. ↑ Excessive use of force against demonstrators ( Memento from August 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Amnesty International, 2009
  5. ↑ Iran releases 140 opponents of the regime on Spiegel Online from July 28, 2009
  6. ↑ Ahari escapes the death penalty in: taz.de of September 13, 2010
  7. ↑ Iranian human rights activist sentenced to six years in prison in: Zeit Online of September 18, 2010. See Shiva Nazar Ahari sentenced to six years in prison in: Reporters Without Borders of September 20, 2010
  8. ↑ Shiva Nazar Ahari in: PEN America (Journal)
  9. ^ Message to the Iranian prison in: taz.de of March 11, 2010
  10. ↑ Human rights prize awarded to Shiva Nazar Ahari press release of the city of Esslingen
  11. ↑ A day will come that our struggle makes the world a better place to live in: ICORN from March 8, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Ahari, Shiva Nazar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1984