Bahar Abbasi

Bahar Abbasi is a writer, journalist, and human rights activist focusing on women’s and ethnic minorities’ rights from Sardasht, Kurdistan, Iran. She holds a degree in Political Science and a Master’s in Social Studies, and for many years has worked on issues related to women’s rights, structural discrimination, and honor killings in Iranian Kurdistan.

During her university years, Abbasi became involved in cultural and political movements. Her advocacy for gender equality and Kurdish rights led to governmental pressure and persecution. Through her numerous reports and articles addressing discrimination, ethnic repression, and violence against women, she has sought to be a voice for silenced women and marginalized communities.

She was among the founders of social campaigns against honor killings in Kurdistan and played an active role in documenting protests and human rights violations during the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' (Jin, Jiyan, Azadi) movement. Her writings, a combination of personal narrative, civic resistance, and socio-political analysis, have been widely shared across human rights platforms and social media.

Now based in Bergen as the city's 9th ICORN resident, Bahar Abbasi continues her journalistic work and collaboration with international human rights organisations. She believes that writing, in a land where speaking is a crime, is itself an act of revolution, and she uses her pen as a tool of resistance, hope, and freedom.