Shaparak Shajarizadeh is a women's rights activist from Iran. In 2018 she was arrested for repeatedly having removed her headscarf and waving it like a flag. With these actions, she became one of the iconic „Girls of Enghelab Street“ (Girls of the Revolution Street) sustaining an ongoing protest inside and outside Iran inspired by Vida Movahed. Vida was the first “Girl of Enghelab Street” standing in the crowd at Enghelab Street in Teheran on a utility box and waving her white headscarf like a flag in dissent against the compulsory hijab.

After Shaparak's release from prison, she fled to Turkey and later got granted asylum in Canada. In 2018 she was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison in Iran. Shaparak was named one of the hundred most inspiring and influential women worldwide in 2018 by the BBC and received the International Women's Rights Award at the Geneva Human Rights Summit in 2020. This recognition was particularly important for her family, who is still in Iran suffering the consequences of Shaparak’s stance on women's rights and often vacillate between condemnation and pride about Shaparak’s activism. 

In the book "LA LIBERTÉ N'EST PAS UN CRIME" (freedom is not a crime) she wrote together with the Canadian journalist Rima Elkouri she shares the story of her fight and her pain but also of her dreams and hopes for all Iranians.