Women Warriors

Asieh Amini Note: sensitive topics within. Asieh Amini is an Iranian journalist, activist and poet. As a six-year-old girl, she witnessed the Iranian revolution in 1979 and resented having to wear the newly-mandatory black hijab, to the point that it made her cry. She began attending college in 1993 for journalism and wrote for Kayhan (the daily paper). She advanced to writing for a larger newspaper, Iran, and then became its' cultural editor very quickly. This promotion did not come without some complaints from the male staff, who resented her place of authority.  For a while, Amini worked for a women's issues paper, and then did freelance journalism. After hearing about the execution of a 16-year-old girl in 2006, Amini was horrified. Atefeh Sahaaleh had been repeatedly assaulted and bribed to keep quiet. The morality police eventually found and arrested Sahaaleh for not maintaining her "chastity." Her repeat "offenses" were punished with lashings and ev