Asieh Amini

Asieh Amini (; born 14 September 1973) is an Iranian poet and journalist currently residing in Trondheim, Norway. She is a women's rights activist fighting against the death penalty in general and specifically against the stoning of women and minors in Iran.

Early life Amini grew up in the Mazandaran Province in northern Iran. She was the third of four sisters. Her family originated from the gentry of feudal times. Her father was a teacher. She and her sisters spent a lot of time reading, writing and painting. She started visiting an afternoon poetry circle at a local library. Asieh wanted to become a painter or writer. She stayed in Norway and completed a master's degree in Equality and diversity at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Amini is a member of the Norwegian PEN Board of Directors.

Activism Amini founded the 'Stop Stoning Forever Campaign' in October 2006. She worked together with a well known feminist from Iran and two writers from outside the country who could publish without censorship.

She started her activism when she met a 16-year-old girl named Atefeh Sahaaleh who had endured a lifetime of sexual abuse. As a result of that abuse, she was eventually sentenced for to death by stoning for crimes against chastity. Amini felt compelled to write about and investigate the practice of stoning. During her investigations she found out that despite Iran's commitment to the international community to abolish the practice stoning was still going on in secret. In 2002, Iran's chief justice declared a moratorium on stoning.

After this experience, Amini founded the 'Stop Stoning Forever Campaign'. She fights to have to practice of stoning stopped, researches cases of women who have been sentenced to death by stoning, and shares their stories with the public.

Family At the newspaper Zan, Amini met Javad Montazeri, a photographer from the Mazandaran region like her. After eight months they decided to get married. After giving birth to her daughter Ava her husband encouraged her to continue to work. When she became pregnant for a second time, she tried to take medicine that would induce a miscarriage, which would make it possible to go to an emergency room in a hospital and have the fetus removed. This was necessary because abortion is illegal in Iran. However, the medicine didn't work and Amini thought that she had damaged the fetus irreparably. So she proceeded to have an illegal abortion with complications but was able to return to work afterwards. "Jeg savner å savne deg" ("I miss missing you") "Election Fallout- (Participated writer), Directed by Marcus Michaelsen"