Asieh Amini

Asieh Amini (Persian: آسیه امینی; born 14 September 1973) is an Iranian poet and journalist currently residing in Trondheim, Norway.

When Mohammad Khatami was elected president in 1997, the bans were lifted a little and more daring publications emerged.

After giving birth Amini started working as the social editor of the newspaper Etemaad.

[2] She stayed in Norway and completed a master's degree in Equality and diversity at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

[1] She is fighting gender-based injustices in Iran's judicial system and is advocating for an end to stoning as a form of execution.

[4] She started her activism when she met a 16-year-old girl named Atefeh Sahaaleh who had endured a lifetime of sexual abuse.

During her investigations she found out that despite Iran's commitment to the international community to abolish the practice stoning was still going on in secret.

[4] The editor-in-chief of her newspaper said that it was impossible for them to publish the story as she was fighting Sharia law and the Iranian judicial system.

Leyla gave birth to her first child at age nine and received a 100 lashes sentence for chastity for the first time.

Even the Norwegian prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik wrote a letter to Iranian president Khatami.

[1] With the help of a friend of Shadi Sadr, her human rights attorney, Amini was able to have Leyla removed from prison and put in a social organization that provided her with private lessons and helped her to learn to read and to write.

[4] After the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009 the situation of human rights activists became dangerous in Iran.

[6] At the newspaper Zan, Amini met Javad Montazeri, a photographer from the Mazandaran region like her.

When she became pregnant for a second time, she tried to take medicine that would induce a miscarriage, which would make it possible to go to an emergency room in a hospital and have the fetus removed.