Today, he works as a Professor in Medicine and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience at the University of Oslo.

Amiry-Moghaddam began using his voice to raise awareness of the Iranian authorities' human rights violations in 2004, the same year he received the King's Gold Medal for best medical doctorate at the University of Oslo.

"[8] Later in 2004, Amiry-Moghaddam's efforts in Norway were decisive for Leyla Mafi escaping the death penalty in Iran.

In addition to being repeatedly raped, Leyla was sold to older men as a sigheh, or temporary bride, twice.

[11] Arrested at 17, she was sentenced to death on charges of "running a brothel, acts contrary to chastity, prostitution, incest and giving birth to an illegitimate child" in 2004 when she was 18 years old.

The case received so much attention that after a week, Norway’s then Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik wrote a personal letter to then Iranian President Mohammad Khatemi and asked for Leyla’s death sentence to be revoked.

[16] Amiry-Moghaddam's activism has helped to create awareness of several death penalty cases in both the Norwegian and international media.