Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani
Founding member, One Million Signatures campaign.
Last Contribution:
Ten Days that Shook Iran
Contributor Biography
Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani is a key leader of the women's rights movement in Iran and one of the founding members of the One Million Signatures campaign begun in July 2006. She and 31 Iranian women were arrested in Tehran on March 4, 2007 just before the International Women's Day demonstrations. In 2007 she and several other women were sentenced to three years in prison for "threatening national security." Ms. Ahmadi is a journalist and author of several books about the women's movement in Iran and was the publisher of several banned publications, including Fasl-e Zanan (Women's Seasons), Jens-e Dovom (The Second Sex), and the blog Feminist School.
