How one woman’s courage challenged Iran’s mighty clerics

Ebadi has fought for human rights and women’s freedom, from courts of Tehran to exile.

Ali Shariati Mazinani, a prominent sociologist and Iranian revolutionary who specialised in the sociology of religion, once said, “Religion should wake people up, not put them to sleep.” The revolution culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty on February 11, 1979.