Fiona Lehane

From Cork, living in West Hampstead. formerly partner in PwC Consulting Uk. Now in fintech, enjoy parkrun, #empathy Reading, sport and gardening!

[Fiona Lehane @feelehane]

Something disturbing about watching @BBCSport #Wimbledon2024 coverage with Nick Krygios commentating. He was convicted of assault against ex-girlfriend and has tweeted support for Andrew Tate. Weird to see him treated normally despite this.

[Fiona Lehane @feelehane]

Enjoying election night. Mainly enjoying @thetimes election night and @BBCNews but @SkyNews also good. Hilarious to hear Rees Mogg and Leadstrom think basically the Tory’s need to be more right wing….Isn’t this a centrist Labour win?!?

[Fiona Lehane @feelehane]

Hi everyone, I took in a stray male black cat last week who was lost in NW2/NW6. Vet confirmed no chip and not neutered. Still searching for owner or a shelter that will take him (lots are full). Please share #lostcats #westhampsted #cricklewood

[Fiona Lehane @feelehane]

I just signed @crisis_uk open letter to political party leaders calling on them to commit to ending all forms of homelessness ahead of the next election.

Join me to demand that this election is the one where we decide to end to homelessness. #MakeHistory https://t.co/HnEWzRLphj

[Fiona Lehane @feelehane]

I’d love to see students protesting this. It’s monstrous.

[Shabnam Nasimi @NasimiShabnam]

Every morning, these girls in eastern Afghanistan climb a hill to get to their classroom. But as they reach the age of 11, they are told to stay at home.

966 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school.

507 days since the Taliban banned women from university.

[Tired Kitten @psychotic_bat]

I'm an Iranian woman and have lived under the Islamic Republic for 20,5 years. I moved to Germany because I thought the values I considered important would be respected in "free" Western countries. 

People cannot even imagine how triggering it is for us to see the unholy unity of islamists and radical leftists. This is the very phenomena that changed the history of my country for the worse. I am beyond disgusted and disturbed.

To the women standing behind literal terrorists and islamists saying prayers at universities: You don't even know what you're getting yourself into. None of you have read the "Al Nisa" surah, where it is clearly stated that men literally own you and have the right to hit you if you refuse to have sex with them:

"Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has given the one more (strength) than the other, and because they support them from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband's) absence what Allah would have them guard. As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them (first), (Next), refuse to share their beds, (And last) beat them (lightly); but if they return to obedience, seek not against them Means (of annoyance): For Allah is Most High, great (above you all)."

What you are standing up for today is anything but being "woke" and progressive. You should have the right to protest and stand up for causes that are important to you. But fighting Jewish students, attacking them, not understanding the fact that the hostages have to be brought back home and no peace can exist before that happens is outright wrong. People who truly advocate about and fight for human rights are NOT selective with the causes they care about. Caring about human rights is one thing, standing up behind Islamists, waving Hezbollah and Hamas flags and saying slogans that are against Jews and outright radical are not it.

#BringThemHome
#universityprotests

[Fiona Lehane @feelehane]

@whampsteadpooch @NW6FOFG Squishiest dog? 🥰

[@DogsofWestHampstead🐕 @whampsteadpooch]

So excited about this! 🐾🐕🐩

[Jess Phillips @jessphillips]

£42 for each child raped from the Home Office who. £169,000 per person in the failed Rwanda plan. No hours of debate on the child abuse inquiry, no Tory rebellion that not 1 of recommendations has been done by Govt. No amendments from 5 families. No extra judges for rape victims.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Brilliant from @jessphillips

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

This beautiful young woman has been held hostage by Hamas terrorists for 69 days.

Her name is Noa Argamini (26).

Noa’s mom has stage four brain cancer and has begged for her daughter to be freed before time runs out.

Please RT and help us bring Noa home.

#BringThemAllHome

[Fiona Lehane @feelehane]

It was lovely to spend time today volunteering and the generosity of people is wonderful #inspirational #foodpoverty #whamp

[West Hampstead @NW6Community]

Having a great time at the @XmasMarketNW6 with @w_hub and @CAforWH and a brilliant Samba band! Open until 4pm today!

[Fiona Lehane @feelehane]

And don’t get me started on how much I like Christmas!!

[Fiona Lehane @feelehane]

Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish friends and neighbours. One thing I love about London is the diversity. I celebrated Diwali with my Hindu friends recently, now Hanukkah and of course, always support friends & colleagues fasting during Ramadan & celebrations too! Bit #Diversity

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

“They violently raped me”

“Islamic Republic of Iran’s agents made us face the walls of the vehicle and gave electric shocks to our legs…They tortured me through beatings … They pulled down my trousers and raped me…I was really being ripped apart…I was throwing up a lot and bleeding from my rectum.”

Maryam, who was gang raped in a Revolutionary Guards detention centre, recounted that her rapists told her: “You are all addicted to penis, so we showed you a good time. Isn’t this what you seek from liberation?”  
Sexual violence weaponized to crush Iran’s “Woman Life Freedom” uprising, documents in detail the harrowing ordeals of 45 survivors, including 26 men, 12 women and 7 children,

Security forces in Iran used rape and other forms of sexual violence to suppress last year protest after the murder of Mahsa Amini.
Amnesty International said in a new report published today.

State agents raped women and girls vaginally, anally and orally, while men and boys were raped anally. Survivors were raped with wooden and metal batons, glass bottles, hosepipes, and/or agents’ sexual organs and fingers. Rape took place in detention facilities and police vans, as well as schools or residential buildings unlawfully repurposed as detention places.  
This is what exactly Hamas did to women in Israel on October 7 and we the people of Iran were the first ones who loudly condemned the savage brutality against Israeli women by Hamas terrorists. Because we especially the women of Iran know very well that the Islamic Republic and Hamas are cut from the same cloth and both use rape and torture of women as a weapon of war.

Israeli Women and teenagers were gang-raped, beaten, tortured and murdered.

Some were mutilated and set on fire, some had their lifeless bodies dragged around, spat on and beaten by wild and ecstatic crowds celebrating the “victory” of Hamas.

The horrifying images of these atrocities — filmed by the terrorists themselves — have been seen around the whole world.

In Iran we faced the same brutality. Last year after the killings of more than 700 innocent protesters and imprisonment of more than 20,000, many young teenagers told us that they faced raped in prison. We had many young protesters committed suicide after being free from jail.

For many years now I have been campaigning for women of Iran and Afghanistan, calling attention to their suffering under Islamic fundamentalism.

Iranian women and their Afghan sisters have long felt that their voices go unheard in the West.

Today, it is our Israeli sisters that have been raped by the same barbaric terrorists.

Whether it is the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic in Iran, or Hamas-Isis in Israel, we must collectively condemn the atrocities perpetrated against women in the name of this Islam.

We must stand together to resist and eliminate this violence against all women everywhere — no matter where in the world it raises its ugly head.

My message to Western Feminists: Do not abandon your sisters in the Middle East. Stand up to Islamist terror.
#TogetherWeAreStronger

[Shabnam Nasimi @NasimiShabnam]

Nabila Rahimi was arbitrarily arrested at her home by the Taliban last week. She was a female protester in Takhar province of Afghanistan. There has been no information on her fate. She is of Tajik ethnicity.

We DEMAND her immediate and unconditional release.

#FreeNabilaRahimi

[Fiona Lehane @feelehane]

RT @NasimiShabnam: The Taliban have arbitrarily arrested these five women's rights activists in Afghanistan, simply because they stood up f…

[Shabnam Nasimi @NasimiShabnam]

The Taliban have arbitrarily arrested four women's rights activists for standing up for their rights in Afghanistan — Neda Parwani, Zhulia Parsi, Manizha Siddiqi, Parisa Azada. They are Tajik women.

They must be immediately & unconditionally released. We will not be silenced.

[Fiona Lehane @feelehane]

As I listen (again) to @MarinaHyde reading #whatjusthappened at the great event @TheNedLondon I’m very excited! Seeing her in person & chatting to her at the back before she went on was surprising & wonderful! Thanks @TheTroubleClub!! Great chat!!

[Shabnam Nasimi @NasimiShabnam]

BREAKING - The Taliban have shutdown educational centres in Herat province of Afghanistan, where girls were studying English and computer courses.

793 days ago, the Taliban BANNED girls from school.

When will this nightmare end?
https://t.co/vDs9A8vb8W