Asieh Amini

Asieh Amini is a poet, journalist, and women's rights activist, widely recognised as one of Iran's most effective campaigners against the death penalty—particularly stoning and the execution of juvenile offenders. Her courageous work in human rights advocacy earned her the prestigious Hellmann/Hammett Award from Human Rights Watch in 2009.

From 2010 to 2012, Amini was the ICORN resident in Trondheim. She continues her literary and activist work in exile.

In January 2012, Amini was awarded the Oxfam Novib/PEN International Award, which honors writers and journalists who face threats, persecution, or exile due to their socially critical work. In September 2014, she received the Ord i Grenseland Prize, an annual literary award presented to a female fiction writer who has been persecuted, threatened, or imprisoned for her work.