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Masih Alinejad
Masoumeh "Masih" Alinejad-Ghomikolayi, is an Iranian-American journalist, author, and political activist. Alinejad worked as a presenter/producer at Voice of America Persian News Network, a correspondent for Radio Farda, a frequent contributor for Manoto television, and a contributing editor for IranWire. Alinejad focuses on criticism of the status of human rights in Iran, especially women's right…
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culture · Iranian-American journalist, writer and activist (born 1976) · journalist · blogger · writer · also Masih Alinejad, Masoumeh Alinejad-Ghomi, Masoumeh Alinejad, Masih Yazidnejad, Alinejad
Born 11 September 1976 · Q6783266
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2026· 14 entries
“Many Iranians want an end to the Islamic Republic. Opposition voices should be heard”
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Published video “A Heart Attack Stopped His Execution. The Regime Is Waiting to Try Again.”.
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Published video “Mamdani, Arrest Islamic Republic officials in New York!”.
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Published video “Iranians React to Khamenei's Burial”.
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Yahoo: Masih Alinejad: This should be a lesson for the rest of the world
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Published video “Masih Alinejad on CBS News: "Nuclear Deal or Death Sentence for Iranians?"”.
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Published video “US-Iran Deal Ignores Human Rights "Where Are the Mass Executions on the Agenda?" | CNN - Jake Tapper”.
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Published video “I Couldn't Breathe. This Is What the Taliban Calls "Culture."”.
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Published video “تجاوز افراد رژیم به پیکر بیجان صالحه اکبری و فرستادن عکس به همسرش”.
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Published video “بازداشت شمیم مافی زن ایرانی ساکن لس آنجلس به جرم فروش اسلحه برای جمهوری اسلامی در آمریکا”.
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Published video “بازداشت و ابطال گرین کارت پسر معصومه ابتکاردرآمریکا”.
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Published video “Thousands of Iranian students and legal immigrants, many who fled the regime, are now at risk#USCIS”.
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Wall Street Journal: Q&A: Masih Alinejad on Iran
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2025· 7 entries
Yahoo: Masih Alinejad says 'justice is beautiful' after sentencing of men who tried to kill her
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UPI: Mobsters get 25 years for Iran-backed plot targeting Masih Alinejad
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New York Post: Iranian-American activist Masih Alinejad blasts Zohran Mamdani for not being ‘tough’ on Hamas
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The New York Times: Masih Alinejad
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CBS News: NYC jury finds 2 guilty in plot to kill Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad
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Amirov and Omarov were convicted in the Southern District of New York Federal Court of charges relating to the 2022 plot: "murder-for-hire, attempted murder in aid of racketeering, conspiracy, and money laundering"
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“Removing a terrorist is not a tragedy, it is a step toward justice for all the innocent lives they destroyed.”
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2023· 1 entry
Bahadorifar was sentenced to 4 years in prison in Southern District of New York
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2022· 3 entries
Mehdiyev was indicted on one count of possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number
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24-year-old Khalid Mehdiyev approached Alinejad's residence in Brooklyn, looking inside the windows and attempting to open the front door
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Was awarded the American Jewish Committee's Moral Courage Award for speaking out fearlessly in support of the Iranian people being oppressed by the Iranian government
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2019· 2 entries
Iranian security forces arrested three of Alinejad's family members as retribution for her women's rights activism, according to Amnesty International
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Alinejad sued the Iranian government in a U
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2018· 2 entries
Titled The Wind in My Hair that deals with her experiences growing up in Iran, where she writes girls "are raised to keep their heads low, to be unobtrusive as possible, and to be meek"
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Alinejad's sister and niece were forced to go on a prime-time television programme to say that the family was disgraced by Alinejad's behavior, and that their parents have disowned her
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2016· 1 entry
Alinejad launched a boycott campaign against the 2016 women's chess world championship, to be held in February 2017 in Tehran, Iran
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2015· 2 entries
“Marjan Sheikholeslami, the head of the political department of Hambastegi newspaper agreed to take me under her wing.”
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The Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, awarded her its women's rights prize for "giving a voice to the voiceless and stirring the conscience of humanity to support the struggle of Iranian women for basic human
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2014· 1 entry
Alinejad launched My Stealthy Freedom (also known as Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian Women), a Facebook page that invites Iranian women to post pictures of themselves without a hijab
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2013· 1 entry
That her father had refused to speak to her for three years as a result
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2010· 1 entry
And a group of Iranian writers and intellectuals established the "IranNeda" foundation
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2009· 1 entry
Published a novel called A Green Date
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2008· 1 entry
Alinejad wrote a critical piece in Etemad, called "Song of the Dolphins", in which she compared Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's followers to hungry dolphins that beg for food
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2005· 1 entry
Wrote an article suggesting that while government ministers had claimed they received pay cuts, they were actually receiving considerable sums of money as "bonuses" for everything from serving religious duties to rin
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2001· 1 entry
With the local daily Hambastegi, and then worked for the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA)
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1976· 1 entry
Born 1976-09-11.
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