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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali
France 24 | News Wires
10 Oct 2022
<<Students and workers continue protests in Iran amid crackdown.
Iranian protesters remained defiant Monday with students staging
sit-ins and some industrial workers going on strike despite a crack-down
activists say has left dozens dead and hundreds more imprisoned. Videos
posted on social media indicated that protests flared at various points
in the capital and other cities over recent days, with women burning
headscarves and shouting slogans against the Islamic republic. Kurdish
rights group Hengaw accused the authorities of using heavy weaponry,
including <shelling> on neighbourhoods and <machine gun fire>, in the
northwestern city of Sanandaj - claims which could not be independently
confirmed amid widespread internet blocks. Gunshots were also heard in
Amini's home town of Saqqez, said the Norway-based group.
....
Workers on strike
Footage shared on social media, including by news site Iran Wire,
said students at Tehran women's university Al-Zahra shouted criticism of
the regime during a visit Saturday by President Ebrahim Raisi. Student
at universities including Tehran Azad also painted their hands red to
evoke the crackdown by the authorities on the protests, images showed.
Analysts say that the multi-faceted nature of the protests - ranging
from street marches to student strikes to individual actions of defiance
- has complicated the state's attempts to quell the movement. This could
make the protests an even bigger challenge to the authorities under
supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 83, than the November 2019
protests against energy price hikes that were bloodily put down. One
viral video said to show a woman bare-headed in defiance of the dress
code, in a street in the northwestern city of Kermanshah with
outstretched arms and offering <free hugs> to passers-by. There have
also been signs of labour unrest. Videos broadcast by Persian
media based outside Iran showed striking workers burning tyres outside
the Asalouyeh petro-chemical plant in the country's southwest. IHR said
workers were blocking roads there, and there were also reports of
strikes at refineries in Abadan in the west of Iran and Kengan in the
south.
....
In an act of cyber defiance, the hacking group Edalat-e Ali (Ali's
Justice) had posted an image during the main state TV evening news on
Saturday of Khamenei in crosshairs and being consumed by flames.>>
Read more here:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20221010-students-and-workers-continue-protests-in-iran-despite-crackdown
The Guardian
Supported by The Guardian
10 Oct 2022
By Abu Muslim Shirzad
<<'The fire of our anger is still burning': protesters in Iran
speak out.
<They have been telling us to tolerate the situation for 43 years.
Our life passed by, waiting. We are frustrated and disillusioned because
we have no freedom and no economy. The tyranny of the rulers has become
unbearable, even breathing has become difficult in this country.> These
are the words of the 27-year-old Marzia, in Tehran, who has been
standing against the Iranian Republic's regime in different ways -
including using the slogan <death to the dictator>. Marzia says
protesting against the mandatory hijab law was just an excuse and the
main causes were <disappointments - with injustice, poverty and lack of
human freedom>, which has put everyone in <an explosive condition>. She
tells the Guardian: <This situation is intolerable. Our money is spent
in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Palestine, while we ourselves live in
poverty and misery. We are no longer fooled by promises and slogans. The
fire of our anger is still burning and the Islamic Republic is melting
like ice. There is no one left to defend the system, except Basijis, the
Revolutionary Guards and Akhunds [Islamic scholars].> Najib, a
24-year-old resident of Zahedan, the capital of the Sistan and
Balu-chestan province in the south-east, says that since Friday, panic
has spread in the city, while the internet and other telecommunications
were cut off and have only recently been restored. <I will never forget
the bloody Friday of 30 September. They attacked from the ground and
from the air. They even shot us in the head and chest with a sniper,> he
says. Najib, who was one of the protesters on 30 September in Zahedan,
says security agents used repressive measures. According to statistics
provided by the Iranian government, only 19 protesters and five security
agents were killed. Amnesty International said on Thursday that at least
82 people have been killed by Iranian security forces in Zahedan since
protests erupted there on 30 September. Sayed Ali Hasani, a 35-year-old
media activist and protester from Mazandaran, a central-northern
province of Iran, says that 26 people were killed in the first seven
days of protests in the province. <The people are dissatisfied with the
government and angry at the rulers.
What the Islamic Republic is doing these days is the most brutal
way possible to suppress the protesters. It's insane.
The way the Islamic Republic pretends that this movement is an
uprising asking for nudity is completely wrong. People are fed up with
discrimination, injustice and poverty and they use any means to raise
their voices. Mahsa Amini's death is actually an excuse for this women's
revolution,> he says. <Iran is a rich country, but its people pay for
proxy wars under the slogan of destroying Israel. Iran's rulers make up
only 1% of the country's population, the other 99% of people want
freedom of opinion and expression, which does not exist now,> he adds.
....
<I am sure that these protests will continue until the complete
over-throw of the Islamic Republic regime. I doubt that the corrupt
government will be able to suppress protests and later possible
strikes.> >>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/oct/10/iran-protests-tehran-mahsa-amini
The Guardian
10 Oct 2022
By Patrick Wintour - Diplomatic editor
<<Gunshots and blasts heard at Mahsa Amini protests in Iran.
Gunshots and explosions were heard in the Iranian Kurdish city of
Sanandaj on Monday as the protests over the death of a 22-year-old
Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini continued to unfold across the country.
Government officials are struggling to end the protests led by young
Iranians, especially women, previously regarded as uninterested by
politics. The British government is imminently expected to announce a
first round of sanctions against Iranian officials deemed to be
violently suppressing the demonstrations. In an ominous development for
the regime, more than 1,000 workers at the Bushehr and Damavand
petrochemical plants carried out a threat to go on strike, chanting
<death to the dictator>. The government will be desperate to ensure
Iran's profitable oil industry continues in production, and such
protests do not spread through the industry,
The violence in Kurdish areas on Monday morning reflects Amini's
Kurdish roots. Demonstrations in the region began on 17 September after
her funeral. Amini died in custody after being detained by Iran's
<morality police>. The human rights group Hengaw posted footage it
described as smoke rising in a Sanandaj neighbourhood with what sounded
like rapid rifle fire echoing through the night sky and people shouting.
During the protests in the neighbouring Kurdish county of Salas-e
Babajani, a 22-year-old man called Arin Muridi was murde-red, Hengaw
claimed. He was hit by direct fire from government forces during the
Salas-e Babajani protests on Sunday evening, it said. Esmail Zarei
Kousha, the governor of Iran's Kurdistan province, alleged without
providing evidence that unknown groups <plotted to kill young people on
the streets> on Saturday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Deaths were also reported by officials after a riot broke out at Lakan
prison in Rasht. Officials claimed the incident was precipitated by a
dispute between two prisoners but there have also been reports of
political activity in the facility in recent days.
For the third time since the unrest started, members of the
medical community issued a statement demanding security forces show
greater restraint, saying protesters were being taken out of ambulances
and beaten up with batons.
....
The government has reiterated that the protests are either being
exaggerated or generated by partisan Farsi media, such as BBC Persian,
that broadcasts into the country. It accuses BBC Farsi and Iran
International of feeding a diet of lies. However, social media showed
students chanting: <This is not a protest, this is a revolution>,
<poverty corruption and injustice, shame on this tyranny> and <don't
think it is only today, we are going to come out every day>. The husband
of the Iranian reporter Niloufar Hamedi, who helped break the story
about the death of Amini, said his wife was still being held in jail 18
days after she was arrested. She is said to be under questioning but has
not been charged.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/10/gunshots-mahsa-amini-protests-iran-death-police-custody-kurdish
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: Better said fact: untill now more than
2.500 demonstrating and mostly young people/students were battoned or
shot to death by the 'marality police' or the basij.
France 24
10 Oct 2022
<<Iran returns star footballer Daei's passport seized over
protests.
Tehran (AFP) - Authorities in Iran have returned the passport of
Ali Daei, the country's football legend confirmed to AFP on Monday,
after confiscating it for supporting protests over Mahsa Amini's death.
Iran has been gripped by nationwide demonstrations since the
22-year-old Kurdish woman's death was announced on September 16, three
days after she was arrested in Tehran for allegedly violating the
country's strict dress code. The street violence has led to dozens of
deaths, mostly of protesters but also of members of the security forces.
Hundreds have also been arrested. <Upon my return from abroad, my
passport was confiscated by police at Tehran's international airport in
the presence of my family and other people,> Daei said, in his first
comments to the media since the beginning of the protests. <The receipt
they gave me said I had to go to the public and revolutionary prosecutor
in the capital (Tehran) to follow up the case,> he noted. The passport's
confiscation <wasn't and isn't an important issue for me, so I didn't go
anywhere>, Daei said, adding that the authorities <returned it after two
or three days>. Daei on September 27 used social media to call on
the government to <solve the problems of the Iranian people rather than
using repression, violence and arrests>. <The confiscation of Ali Daei's
passport was due to what he wrote on Instagram in response to the death
of Mahsa Amini,> reformist paper Hammihan reported earlier Monday.
'Lack of respect'
....
The football star told AFP: <Unfortunately, I don't understand
why they seized my passport. And after this lack of respect, what does
the return of the passport mean legally?> A number of Iranian sportsmen,
actors and filmmakers have thrown their weight behind the
demonstrations, asking authorities in the Islamic republic to listen to
the people's demands. On Thursday, local media reported that former
Bayern Munich midfielder Ali Karimi was facing prosecution over his
support for the protests. The authorities have also seized the passports
of singer Homayoun Shajarian and his wife, actress Sahar Dolatshahi, as
well as that of filmmaker Mehran Modiri, the ILNA news agency reported
on Sunday. On September 30, Iranian authorities arrested former football
player Hossein Mahini over his support for the protests, accusing him of
"encouraging riots.
Mahini was reportedly released on bail early last week.>>
Source AFP
Read more here:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221010-iran-returns-star-footballer-daei-s-passport-seized-over-protests
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