Maryam Namazie

Maryam Namazie (born 1966 in Tehran, Iran) is a civil rights activist. It is committed to the radical regime in Tehran and against Islamism worldwide, including as a spokesperson for the Council of Ex - Muslims of Britain, the British variant of the Central Council of Ex-Muslims.

Namazie comes from Iran, had to leave in 1980 because of the Islamic Revolution, but the country. She is the founder of the Association Iran Solidarity and elected board member of the Worker-communist Party of Iran club. The women's rights activist is the spokesperson of Equal Rights Now - Organisation against Women's Discrimination in Iran and the International Committee against Stoning. From Elle magazine Quebec, she was voted one of the Top 45 Women of the Year 2007.

In the course of the debate on Mohammed cartoons and freedom of the press intensified its commitment against political Islam. From the British National Secular Society she was elected Secularist of the Year 2005.

Namazie emphasizes the importance of the One Law For All, the information relating to the individual and aligned to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights law uniformity, and warns of a religion-based special law, discriminates against atheists or women about family law.