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[[File:[[File:Shiva Mahbobi.jpg|thumb|Shiva Mahbobi]]]] |
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Shiva Mahbobi (born 14 July 1968) is an Iranian political activist who lives in the United Kingdom now. She is best known as the spokesperson for Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran [http://www.iranpoliticalprisoners.org/about-us.html (CFPPI)] and has campaigned to establish the [http://20juneiran.wordpress.com/about/ 20th of June] as an International day of action to support political prisoners in Iran. |
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Mahbobi was a women’s rights and students’ right activist, which was deemed by the Islamic regime in Iran as ‘being the enemy of God’ and therefore she was arrested, tortured and imprisoned for more than three years at the age of 16. She continued her political activities after being released from prison, but had to leave the country for fear of being arrested and executed. She travelled to Turkey, where she saught asylum, and lived for more than two years before moving to Canada in 1994, and then to the UK in 2001. |
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Mahbobi, while in Turkey, was an executive committee member of the International Federation of Iranian Refugees and an activist of the International Campaign in Defense of Women’s Rights in Iran. Mahbobi left Turkey to live in Canada where she continued to work with the International Federation of Iranian Refugees. She worked as the coordinator of the Action Committee on Women’s Rights in Iran (ACWRI) where she worked on raising awareness of the situation of Iranian women with international organizations such as Amnesty International. Mahbobi was one of the main organisers of the International Women’s Day in Toronto, Canada. |
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Mahbobi left Toronto for London, and while working as an interpreter, computer programmer and web designer. She became a member of the public relations committee of the International Committee Against Stoning, which lead an active campaign to abolish the Islamic law promoting stoning of women all around the world. |
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Mahbobi was appointed as the coordinator and the spokesperson of the Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran [http://www.iranpoliticalprisoners.org/about-us.html (CFPPI)]. [http://www.iranpoliticalprisoners.org/about-us.html (CFPPI)] is a non-profit organization which was initially established in 2006 by a group of Iranian ex- political prisoners. The [http://20juneiran.wordpress.com/about/ 20th of June] campaign has attracted the attention of international organisations such UN, EU parliament, and the governments of different EU countries. Mahbobi has held several meetings with these and other human rights organizations and various representatives of the EU parliament, who sympathised with her concerns and confirmed they will raise the issues of political prisoners in Iran with the representatives of the Islamic regime. |
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