18 Facts About Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, was born on 21 April 1971 and is a Norwegian-Iranian neuroscientist and human rights advocate.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam arrived in Norway as a refugee of minor age, via Pakistan in 1985.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam completed his medical studies in 1996 at the University of Oslo, and later obtained a PhD at the Center for Neuroscience and Molecular Biology in that university.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam has been a collaborator to Peter Agre, who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2003.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in 2006.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam was awarded the Anders Jahre Awards medicine prize for young scientists in 2008, He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

In 2013, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam was selected by an independent panel as one of the 10 "brightest minds" in Norway.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam is well known as a defender of human rights.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam received the Norwegian Amnesty International's human rights prize in 2007 for his work against the human rights violations in Iran.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam is co-founder and spokesperson for the NGO Iran Human Rights which monitors the violations of human rights in Iran.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam began using his voice to raise awareness of the Iranian authorities' human rights violations in 2004, the same year he received the King's Gold Medal for best medical doctorate at the University of Oslo.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam became pregnant and had her first child when she was nine years old, and gave birth to twins five years later at the age of 14.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam was arrested and received 100 lashes each time she gave birth.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam was just 12 years old when she was first sold to an Afghan man.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam was sold again when the sigheh expired, this time to a 55-year-old married man with two children.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam forced her into prostitution, receiving as many as 15 clients at his home every night.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam's activism has helped to create awareness of several death penalty cases in both the Norwegian and international media.

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam was particularly involved in stoning and child death penalty cases and contributed greatly to international reactions by bringing the cases to the media's attention.