Maryam Namazie مریم نمازی Profile picture
Iranian-born writer & campaigner. Called 'immoral, corrupt & a harlot’ by Islamic regime of Iran; ‘distressing & objectionable’ by @TedX. #WomanLifeFreedom
Dec 14, 2022 8 tweets 9 min read
UN Commission on Status of Women must remove #Islamic regime of #Iran today.
Misogynist regime that killed #MahsaAmini for few strands of hair, arrested 18000 since 16 Sept & has begun executing protestors has no place in body promoting gender equality.
#IranRevoIution

@UN_CSW Women of #Iran expect 54-member UN Economic & Social Council to vote to remove #Islamic Republic of #Iran from Commission on Status of Women.

How can #execution capital of world & state that legally discriminates and promotes violence against women be on a women’s rights body?
Dec 4, 2022 9 tweets 8 min read
Morality police to be disbanded by #Islamic regime of #Iran? It already effectively has by Iran’s #womensrevolution. As has compulsory veiling laws. Women, with the support of men, have been removing & burning their veils, walking the streets without veils.
#MahsaAmini Image Morality police one of #Islamic regime of #Iran’s many crimes against women & people of Iran. Just since #MahsaAmini killed, over 400 protesters killed, many of them children, 18,000 arrested, women prisoners raped & execution sentences already been issued in kangaroo courts.
Feb 26, 2021 8 tweets 2 min read
My review of @Ayaan new book, Prey, which is more about criminalising migration and racialising crime than ending violence against women. The premise of Hirsi Ali’s new book Prey is that there is, in fact, a clash of civilisations and that the rise in sexual violence in Europe since 2015 is due to an increase of migrant men from Muslim-majority countries with sexist attitudes.
Jun 2, 2020 10 tweets 4 min read
In 1991, I was beaten by NYPD at anti-Iraq War protest. Undercover agents threw something into parade, 18 of us were dragged over barricades fencing protesters in. One cop kicked me in face while I was on the ground; another jumped on my stomach with his knee. #BlackLivesMatter I was one of the War Parade 18, charged with offences such as resisting arrest with a sentence of 13 years in prison. The only reason we were not imprisoned was because of news footage that finally was found that showed police attacked us. (2) #BlackLivesMatter