Shadi sadr biography

Shadi Sadr (Persian: شادی صدر; born 1974) is an Iranianhuman rights lawyer, journalist, and activist for women's rights.^[1] In 2010 Sadr received the International Women of Courage Award.^[2]

Life

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Shadi Sadr was born in Tehran, Iran in 1974.^[3] She studied law, and she received a master's degree in international law from Tehran University in 1999.

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In 2009, Sadr went to live in Germany.^[3]

Work

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Sadr is an expert on women's legal rights in Iran.^[4] She was director of Raahi, a legal advice center for women.

It is now closed. Sadr also started Women in Iran, a website about women's rights in Iran.^[5] As a lawyer, she defended several women activists and journalists in court, after they were sentenced to death.^[5]

Sadr worked to stop capital punishment by stoning, especially of women.

The name of this project was End Stoning Forever.^[