About me

I'm Omid Jamshidi – a lot of people know me as Omid57. I came to Germany in 1995, when I was 17, and three years later I got involved in politics.

Independent, but never alone

Over the years I've worked with a lot of groups and political figures, inside Iran and abroad, without ever joining any of them. The way I see it, good work deserves support – no matter who's doing it.

Standing up to discrimination

For more than three years I've been fighting a case in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. On the other side is a state government with the best lawyers and every resource you can imagine.

Everyone told me to let it go and not make trouble for myself. But I'm not doing this for me. I see it as my duty – for the next generations and for everyone else who's faced racial discrimination.

When I was young, I punched walls to get stronger. These days I'm punching a different wall: injustice. And I'm not stopping until it comes down.

What I write about

Human rights – in Iran, in Germany, and everywhere else
Cases where government agencies and the courts let people down, and why we can't look away
Persian poems and short stories, in plain translation
Straight facts and overviews, like the death penalty worldwide or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Who I write for

Mostly for Iranians and for people in Germany. But I've got a lot of friends in the US, the UK and Canada who follow my work too – that's why this site comes in five languages.

I've seen the world up close

I've traveled a lot – to the US, Canada and Mexico, to Spain, France, Greece, Turkey, the UAE, Croatia and Albania. Every trip introduced me to new people and new cultures.

And everywhere I saw the same thing: whatever language people speak and whatever they believe, they want the same things – safety, respect and freedom. That experience is what made humanity my religion.

This site and AI

I mostly write in Persian. The German, Spanish and English versions are translated with the help of AI (Google Gemini), and every translation says so underneath. Parts of the text and design of this site were also made with AI's help – but the thoughts and opinions are all mine.