Mina Ahadi (born 1956) is an Austrian

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 human rights activist. As an Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

ian born Communist

Communism

Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...

 political activist

Activism

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 she is a current member of the Central Committee and Politburo of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran

Worker-Communist Party of Iran

The Worker-communist Party of Iran founded 1991, is a political party that seeks the revolutionary overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the establishment of a 'Socialist Republic' in its place...

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Mina Ahadi is opposed to faith based laws and promotes citizenship rights and one secular law for all. Ahadi is also the main figure of International Committee Against Executions

International Committee against executions

International Committee Against Executions is an organisation that is fighting against Capital Punishment.The current spokesperson and secretary of this Committee is Mina Ahadi, Iranian Communist activist....

 and International Committee Against Stoning, two entities which serve as front organisations of the extremist Worker-Communist Party of Iran. She is also the main founder of the German Central Council of Ex-Muslims

Central Council of Ex-Muslims

The Central Council of Ex-Muslims is a German association of non-religious, secular persons who were Muslim or originate from an Islamic country. It was founded on January 21, 2007 and has more than 100 members....

. The Central Council of Ex-Muslims aims to break the taboo that comes with renouncing Islam and to oppose apostasy laws and political Islam.

Life

Mina Ahadi was born in Abhar

Abhar

Abhar is a city in and capital of Abhar County, Zanjan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 70,836, in 19,136 families.Abhar is located between Qazvin and Zanjan, near the Abhar River. It is the second-largest city in the province after Zanjan...

, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

 to an Iranian Azeri family. During Iranian Revolution she was in Tabriz and participated in the revolution as a communist.

Her husband, who was also a political activist, was executed on the date of the couple's anniversary. His execution became her motivation to fight against capital punishment.

She is currently living and working in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 and recently helped to gain the freedom of Nazanin Fateh in Iran. Due to death-threats against her, she has been living under police protection from the moment of her public appearance as the chairwoman of the Central Council of Ex-Muslims.

On 20 October 2007 she was awarded the Secularist of the Year

Secularist of the Year

The Secularist of the Year award is presented annually to the individual considered to have made the greatest contribution to secularism in the previous year by the UK's National Secular Society. The prize is a cheque for £5000; it was first awarded in 2005, and is sponsored by Dr...

 prize by the UK's National Secular Society

National Secular Society

The National Secular Society is a British campaigning organisation that promotes secularism and the separation of church and state. It holds that no-one should gain advantage or disadvantage because of their religion or lack of religion. It was founded by Charles Bradlaugh in 1866...

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She is the mother of two daughters.