SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani

1967 - Today

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Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (Persian: سکینه محمدی آشتیانی; born 1967) is an Iranian woman convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and adultery. She gained international notoriety for originally being sentenced to death by stoning for her crimes. Her sentence was commuted and she was released in 2014 after serving nine years on death row. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is the 641st most popular social activist (down from 624th in 2024), the 443rd most popular biography from Iran (up from 445th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Iranian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani ranks 641 out of 840. Before her are Chen Guangcheng, Curtis Yarvin, Maria Verónica Reina, Alva Belmont, Lillian Wald, and Wu'erkaixi. After her are Frank Kameny, Ingrid Newkirk, Elizaveta Glinka, Lucy Burns, Charlotte Despard, and Jan Egeland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani ranks 415. Before her are Meg Cabot, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Ann Lee, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Jordan Chan, and Donovan Bailey. After her are Takuya Takagi, Bent Christensen Arensøe, Igor Shuvalov, Pernilla Wahlgren, Cynthia Klitbo, and Tooru Fujisawa.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani ranks 443 out of 631. Before her are Masih Alinejad (1976), Parviz Davoodi (1952), Afshin Ghotbi (1964), Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei (1960), Iraj Danaeifard (1951), and Mehdi Mahdavikia (1977). After her are Shahab Hosseini (1974), Razi Mousavi (1962), Amir Ghalenoei (1963), Matt Ghaffari (1961), Azam Ali (1970), and Gholam Hossein Mazloumi (1950).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Iran

Among social activists born in Iran, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani ranks 10. Before her are Narges Mohammadi (1972), Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei (1899), Mahmoud Taleghani (1911), Nasrin Sotoudeh (1963), Massoud Rajavi (1948), and Mina Ahadi (1956). After her are Maryam Namazie (1966), Zahra Eshraghi (1964), Killing of Neda Agha-Soltan (null), Parvin Ardalan (1967), Reyhaneh Jabbari (1988), and Ruhollah Zam (1978).

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