Facebook Campaign Garners Iranian Journalist Masih Alinejad Women’s Rights Award · Global Voices
Mahsa Alimardani

The cover photo from Masih Alinejad's Facebook page “My Stealthy Freedom”
London based Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad won the 2015 Women's Rights Award at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy for her Facebook page “My Stealthy Freedom” this past week. The page invites Iranian women to post pictures of themselves without a Hijab, in defiance of Iran's Islamic laws that enforce compulsory hijab. With over 750, 000 followers, this page has been considered something of social media movement for Iranian women.
Below is a video from her acceptance speech at the Summit: