What would you do if someone threw acid in your face or shot you in the eyes with a shotgun? Look at these beautiful women. Yes, bravery is beautiful. Bullets took their eyesight. Acid scarred their faces. But they are still fighting not just for themselves but to protect all women from Islamists terrorists. On November 9, these women will enter the German Parliament. They will stand alongside courageous women who have survived prison, torture, persecution, and authoritarian regimes. This gathering is deeply personal to me. In 2025, during Berlin Freedom Week, I met Julia Klöckner, President of the German Bundestag. Our conversation inspired a vision that is now taking shape. Evelyn Zupke, Germany’s Federal Commissioner for the Victims of the SED Dictatorship, is hosting our Women Summit. The participation of Julia Klöckner the President of Bundestag and Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the French National Assembly, brings an important international parliamentary dimension to our shared commitment to women’s freedom. Women from Iran, Afghanistan, and other authoritarian countries who have been denied education, erased from public life, imprisoned, flogged, sexually assaulted, and sentenced to death for demanding freedom and security. #LetUsTalk#

I refuse to be intimidated. So do the brave women of Iran and Afghanistan who were blinded for daring to fight for freedom. Death threats, assassination plots, massive online harassment, smear campaigns, none of it will silence us. Thank you, Poland, for protecting me, standing with us, and amplifying our voices against the brutality of the Islamic Republic, the Taliban, and Islamist terrorism. We are wounded but unbowed to oppressors. 💔✌️

Spoke at #FreedomGames# in Łódź 🇵🇱 for the WLC, carrying the voices of women in Cameroon 🇨🇲 & across Africa who build peace at great cost. With @Masih & @Neda, we pitched the Gender Justice Global Network. NO to Gender Apartheid. #GenderJustice# @WLCongress @AlinejadMasih @Snwot4

She was born in Iran and built her life in Afghanistan a woman's rights activist with a voice that frightened the men around her. So her ex-husband threw acid on her face. In the hospital, after the surgeries, she sat with her head shaved doctors had taken skin from her scalp to rebuild her face. She was still bandaged, still bleeding, still healing. But her son was not by her side. He was living with his father. And his father set the condition: if you want to talk to your son, you will do it on a video call so I can see what you've become. She accepted. She needed to hear her child's voice. On that call, her ex-husband looked at her destroyed face and smiled. He said: "Look at you. You've become like a monster. You'll never dare go out in public again people will be terrified when they see you. I dare you. I dare you to go out and talk about women's rights." He thought he had broken her. He thought that face was the end of her. He was wrong. Every scar on her face became a sentence in her speech. They took her beauty so she took his fear and turned it into courage. Today she walks in public with her head high, and she speaks about women's rights louder than ever. He wanted to bury her in shame. Instead, he gave the world a witness. That is why I invited her to our Freedom gala in Poland to dedicate to her the Medal of Freedom I received. Because she is the symbol of resilience itself: the symbol of every woman whose face was burned but whose voice could not be silenced. Thank you, Poland for opening your doors, for giving visas to my delegation of women from Iran, Afghanistan, and Cameroon. We are about to start a global women's rights movement and we will go together, all of us, to the German Parliament very soon. This time, I invited 10 women. In Berlin, we will invite more dissidents. @FahimaSarfaraz

This brave woman, @FahimaSarfaraz, was blinded when her Taliban ex-husband threw acid in her face. He laughed & said she could never be the voice of freedom—because people would be afraid of her. She told her story to a huge crowd in Poland. And she said, “He didn’t win. I win.”

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The Handmaid’s Tale is fiction for you. For us, it’s real life. In Poland, I spoke about the victims of Auschwitz and the people massacred by the Islamic Republic in Iran. History teaches us what happens when the world looks away. We must remember the victims, confront tyranny, and refuse to let another massacre be met with silence. #Iran#

I just learned that he has no mother or father to speak up for him. And now the Islamic Republic wants to hang him. His name is Ilya Ben Rashid. He is a young Iranian protester He has a younger sister. Now he is facing a death sentence. He was arrested during the January 2026 protests in Iran. A Revolutionary Court in Isfahan sentenced him to death on charges of “waging war against God” for allegedly damaging public property. He is being held in Dastgerd Prison. Reports say he was denied a lawyer of his choice. Imagine facing execution for demanding freedom. We must become his voice. We must stop his execution. Say his name. Save Ilya Ben Rashid. #StopExecutionsInIran#

She was born in Iran and built her life in Afghanistan a woman's rights activist with a voice that frightened the men around her. So her ex-husband threw acid on her face. In the hospital, after the surgeries, she sat with her head shaved doctors had taken skin from her scalp to rebuild her face. She was still bandaged, still bleeding, still healing. But her son was not by her side. He was living with his father. And his father set the condition: if you want to talk to your son, you will do it on a video call so I can see what you've become. She accepted. She needed to hear her child's voice. On that call, her ex-husband looked at her destroyed face and smiled. He said: "Look at you. You've become like a monster. You'll never dare go out in public again people will be terrified when they see you. I dare you. I dare you to go out and talk about women's rights." He thought he had broken her. He thought that face was the end of her. He was wrong. Every scar on her face became a sentence in her speech. They took her beauty so she took his fear and turned it into courage. Today she walks in public with her head high, and she speaks about women's rights louder than ever. He wanted to bury her in shame. Instead, he gave the world a witness. That is why I invited her to our Freedom gala in Poland to dedicate to her the Medal of Freedom I received. Because she is the symbol of resilience itself: the symbol of every woman whose face was burned but whose voice could not be silenced. Thank you, Poland for opening your doors, for giving visas to my delegation of women from Iran, Afghanistan, and Cameroon. We are about to start a global women's rights movement and we will go together, all of us, to the German Parliament very soon. This time, I invited 10 women. In Berlin, we will invite more dissidents. @FahimaSarfaraz

I just learned that he has no mother or father to speak up for him. And now the Islamic Republic wants to hang him. His name is Ilya Ben Rashid. He is a young Iranian protester He has a younger sister. Now he is facing a death sentence. He was arrested during the January 2026 protests in Iran. A Revolutionary Court in Isfahan sentenced him to death on charges of “waging war against God” for allegedly damaging public property. He is being held in Dastgerd Prison. Reports say he was denied a lawyer of his choice. Imagine facing execution for demanding freedom. We must become his voice. We must stop his execution. Say his name. Save Ilya Ben Rashid. #StopExecutionsInIran#

Woman. Life. Freedom. @AlinejadMasih, an Iranian-American journalist, author and women’s right activist, known for her campaigns against compulsory hijab in Iran. 2026 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 Awardee.

Don't cry, Baba. 😔💔 Hours before his execution, Alireza Raeisi was allowed one final phone call from Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan. His father was crying on the line. So Alireza, with hours left to live, tried to comfort the man who raised him. "What can I do, Baba. They want to take my whole life from me." Then he asked for one last message: "Say hello to my uncle. Tell him I'm looking after Ramin over there." Ramin was his cousin. The son of that same uncle. He was shot dead in the streets of Isfahan during the protests. Now the regime has hanged the other one. At dawn. In secret. This is what the Islamic Republic calls justice: 18 days of torture. Electric shocks. A forced confession. A trial lasting minutes. An appeal thrown out in less than 48 hours. A gallows built beside a Revolutionary Guard executioner. They think the rope will end the uprising. The rope is only creating more anger towards society. When I talk to any of the family members of those who are in prison on the death road, they have a simple demand: tel the world: #StopExecutionsInIran#, demand accountability for these unlawful executions. Sanction the judges and executioners. Silence is complicity. #AlirezaRaeisi#

Before the Islamic Republic of Iran hanged Majid Adineh, they gave him one last chance to speak to his family and his final message to his mother, he exposed the“confession” broadcast by the regime. Majid was arrested during Iran’s January uprising and accused of killing security forces. No independent lawyer. No access to the media. Just a forced confession, and then the gallows. They silenced him while he was alive. His final message exposed what they tried to bury. #StopExecutionsInIran#

Dear @AlinejadMasih , Thank you from the bottom of my heart for refusing to remain silent in the face of all these threats, insults, and attacks, for standing beside me and my family, and for bringing attention to what has been happening. Your kindness, support, and solidarity during these difficult days truly mean so much to me and have been a tremendous source of comfort. For years, you have stood courageously alongside families seeking justice, amplifying their voices, their pain, and their demands for truth and accountability. Thank you, dear Masih. ❤️🙏

WATCH: Former University of Arkansas political science professor Shirin Saeidi is seen in a disturbing video telling Iranian human rights activist Ladan Bazargan that she will travel to Iran, find the grave of Bazargan’s brother Bijan, executed by the Islamic Republic dance on his grave, film it, and send the video to his sister. Let that sink in. Just a few months ago, she was a professor at an American university, threatening the sister of a man executed by the Iranian regime. This is why American and European universities need to start asking serious questions about who they put in front of students. Universities exist to educate young people, not to provide prestige and platforms to people who bring the language of authoritarian intimidation onto Western campuses. Iranian families have heard this language from the Islamic Republic for decades. They should not have to hear it from academics in America. I stand with @LawdanBazargan. Thousands of Iranians stand with her. You can leave Iran. You can enter Western academia. But if you bring the language of executioners with you, we will expose it.

Check out this threatening statement by a cleric in Iran. As more women walk the streets across Iran without hijab, his response is a threat. He says if women have the freedom to choose their clothes, men should have the freedom to rape or sexually assault them. That is incitement to sexual violence. I call on democratic governments to impose Magnitsky sanctions or arrest warrant on this cleric and other Islamists who incite violence against women. Let there be consequences for normalizing rape.