With the official start of the new year (Nowroz) in Iran, the Iran Human Rights Organization has released a report on the executions carried out by the Islamic Republic. According to the report, the rate of executions in the past year has increased by 43%. Among these executed individuals, two people have been executed for the first time in the past 9 years on charges of insulting Islamic sanctities. Yousef Mehrad and Sadrallah Fazeli Zarei had a channel on the social media platform Telegram called “Critique of Superstition and Religion” and were detained for this reason. Yousef Mehrad, a fath ..read more

Iran’s tentacles around Britain: Kidnap fears, murder plots and rape threats, iNews, 20 April 2024 ..read more

What is the Ex-Muslim Movement? When did it begin? How is it expanding so swiftly over the world?, TFL Post, 4 April 2024 ..read more

Mind Your Ramadan! Freethinker, 2 April 2024 ..read more

We were experiencing technical difficulties due to a change of servers. Everything is back up and working now But If you have gotten in touch with us in the last 2-3 weeks through any of our emails including our spokespersons’, please get back in touch as we/they might not have received it at all. You can also reach us through our social media https://www.facebook.com/exmuslims/ https://twitter.com/CEMB_forum https://twitter.com/MaryamNamazie https://twitter.com/apostateali As well as our emails at: info@ex-muslim.org.uk hello@ex-muslim.org.uk ali.malik@ex-muslim.org.uk info@maryamnamazie.com ..read more

More than 50 freethinkers from Afghanistan, Algeria, Australia (including Cape Malay), Bangladesh, Canada, Croatia, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, France, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Morocco, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, Tunisia, UK, Ukraine, USA and the Diaspora will gather in Oslo during 31 August – 1 September 2024 for Celebrating Dissent Oslo. The two day conference is a continuation of the hugely successful Celebrating Dissent conferences held in London (2014), London (2017), Amsterdam (2019), Cologne (2 ..read more

CEMB organised fast-defying protests by staging picnics outside the embassies of countries that prosecute people for eating outdoors during the fasting hours of Ramadan. Fast-defying picnics were first started by feminist activist Ibtaissame Betty Lachgar and her organisation MALI in Muhammadiya Morocco in 2009. They were met with severe backlash, greeted by at least 100 police officers, media people, and a mob of Islamists ended up threatened and then dispersed by the police, sighting their safety.       Betty was visiting London, and as it happened to be in Ramadan, we at CEMB ..read more

More than 50 freethinkers from Afghanistan, Algeria, Australia (including Cape Malay), Bangladesh, Canada, Croatia, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, France, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Morocco, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, Tunisia, UK, Ukraine, USA and the Diaspora will gather in Oslo during 31 August – 1 September 2024 for Celebrating Dissent Oslo. The two day conference is a continuation of the hugely successful Celebrating Dissent conferences held in London (2014), London (2017), Amsterdam (2019), Cologne (2 ..read more

Labour’s Islamic blasphemy law, Spiked, 26 February 2024 ..read more

Maryam Namazie speaks to CFI podcast on The Paris Appeal, 24 February 2024 ..read more