Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist used to live under Sharia Law in Iran. She shares ...

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• 1Masih Alinejad was born on September 11, 1976, in Quomi Babol, Iran, and began her journalism career in 2001 with the Hambastegi newspaper[6].
• 2In 2014, Alinejad founded 'My Stealthy Freedom,' a Facebook campaign inviting Iranian women to post pictures without hijabs, which has garnered nearly 11 million followers[8].
• 3The New York Times described Alinejad as 'The woman whose hair frightens Iran,' and she was selected as one of Time magazine's 2023 honorees for Women of the Year[1][7].
• 4After being forced to flee Iran in 2009 following the disputed presidential election, Alinejad documented and published the names of 57 people killed during protests against the rigged election[3].
• 5Alinejad received the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy's 2015 women's rights prize for 'giving a voice to the voiceless' and has faced multiple assassination and kidnapping plots by Iranian authorities[3][7].