Saffiyah Khan (born 27 November 1997) is an English political activist, singer and model of Pakistani and Bosnian origins.
She became an icon of passive resistance in 2017 after being photographed facing a member of the English Defense League (EDL), a far-right group, during an anti-Muslim demonstration in Birmingham.
[1][2] On 8 April 2017, aged 20, she was photographed standing up to Ian Crossland, the leader of the English Defence League (EDL), a far-right group, during an anti-Muslim demonstration organised in Birmingham the day after the Westminster attack.
Three months later, Jonathan Bachman captured Ieshia Evans face-to-face with police during a Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
[11] In 2019, she participated in the album Encore, performing a revised version of Prince Buster's 1965 hit "Ten Commandments of Man".