Fauzia Ilyas

Quick Facts

Full Name	Fauzia Ilyas
Occupation	Human Rights Activist
Date Of Birth	May 26, 1989(1989-05-26)
Age	35
Birthplace	Lahore
Country	Pakistan
Horoscope	Taurus

Fauzia Ilyas Biography

Fauzia Ilyas is one of the most popular and richest Human Rights Activist who was born on May 26, 1989 in Lahore, Pakistan. Ilyas is born in the year 1989 and was raised in a pious Sunni Muslim family in Pakistan. When she was 16 her father announced her planned marriage to a businessman has never had a chance to meet and the new husband made the wearer of a veil, and sexually assaulted her. Ilyas was desperate for help from her parents however, they refused, citing Islamic justifications of her husband’s actions. In the midst of daily prayers that were not answered, Ilyas increasingly questioned the existence of Allah and expressed she was skeptical to her husband who responded by shoving the woman out of their house and blocking her from visiting their daughter.

Ilyas appeared in both the Deeyah Khan’s British documentary Islam’s Non- Believers (October 2016) and also in Dorothee Forma’s Dutch documentary, Non- believers Freethinkers on the Run (December 2016,).

In December 2015 the Atheist and Agnostic Alliance of Pakistan had a membership of around 3,000.

Fauzia Ilyas Net Worth

Fauzia Ilyas is one of the richest Human Rights Activist from Pakistan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Fauzia Ilyas 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Fauzia Ilyas (Urdu: fwzyh lys , born in 1989) is an Dutch Pakistani speaker, political activist, and the co-founder and president of Atheist & Agnostic Alliance Pakistan. Ilyas is who is an atheist openly and an apostate of Islam was exiled from Pakistan after being threatened with her life, and was also facing legal charges for blasphemy within Pakistan. Ilyas gained refuge in the Netherlands and is now a vocal critic of Islam and an advocate for secularism, feminism and rights for atheists in Pakistan.

Then, Ilyas met a fellow atheist in Lahore known as Sayed Gillani. They got married and founded the Atheist & Agnostic Alliance Pakistan in 2012. In the aftermath of not keeping their identities private, Ilyas and Gillani faced threats of death and accusations of blasphemy. This is a crime punishable with the death penalty in Pakistan. They fled in 2015 and escaped via Dubai into the Netherlands. The first time, Ilyas arrived in an asylum center located in Den Helder on 30 August and got with Gillani in December, after his friends have helped him finance their escape to Pakistan.

In January 2017, Ilyas presented her story to the European Parliament with the International Humanist and Ethical Union. In April, she also received the International Atheist of the Year award. Ilyas criticised Facebook for taking down almost all Pakistan-based secular and Islam-critical pages in response to mass flagging campaigns by Islamists. She argued that Facebook should be a platform for freedom of expression, and stop facilitating the Islamist crackdown against so-called “blasphemers”.

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Fauzia Ranked on the list of most popular Human Rights Activist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Pakistan. Fauzia Ilyas celebrates birthday on May 26 of every year.