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young Jhina (Her Kurdish surname) Mahsa Amini or Zhina Mahsa Amini (Kurdistan-Iran)
Gino d'Artali
Indept investigative journalist
CLICK HERE ON HOW TO READ ALL PARTS OF THIS SPECIAL DEDICATED TO JHINA MAHSA AMINI AND ALL OTHERS ASSASINATED BY IRAN'S DICTATORSHIP.
She was severly beaten by the 'morality
police' because she was not wearing her jihab the right way. A
final blow to her head caused her death. Now |
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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
28 Sep 2022
<<UN chief calls on Iran to refrain from using 'disproportionate force'
against protesters.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutierres called on Iranian President
Ebrahim Raisi not to use <disproportionate force> against protesters who
took to the streets after the death of a young woman in morality police
custody, his spokesman said Tuesday. In a bilateral meeting last week
during the UN General Assembly, Guterres <stressed to President Raisi
the need to respect human rights, including freedom of expression,
peaceful assembly and association>, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
<We are increasingly concerned about reports of rising fatalities,
including women and children, related to the protests,> Dujarric said in
a statement. He said Guterres <calls on the security forces to refrain
from using unnecessary or disproportionate force and appeals to all to
exercise utmost restraint to avoid further escalation>. He also called
for a <prompt, impartial and effective investigation> into the death of
Mahsa Amini, the young woman who died in the custody of Iran's morality
police, sparking nationwide protests that have left at least dozens of
people dead. Raisi on Saturday labelled the protests <riots> and urged
<decisive action against the opponents of the security and peace of the
country and the people>, his office said.
Amini died from 'blow to the head', family says.>>
Read more here:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20220928-un-calls-on-iran-to-halt-disproportionate-force-as-protests-continue
France 24
28 Sep 2022
<<Iran conducts deadly strikes in Iraq's Kurdish region as anti-veil
protests mounts.
Iranian strikes on Wednesday targeting the bases of a Kurdish opposition
group in northern Iraq that had condemned the crackdown on Iranian
protesters killed at least nine people and wounded 32 others, according
to Iraqi Kurdistan officials. The strikes came as demonstrations
continued to engulf Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old
Iranian Kurdish wo-man who was detained by the Iranian morality police.
Iran's attacks targeted Koya, some 65 kilometers (35 miles) east of
Irbil, said Soran Nuri, a member of the Democratic Party of Iranian
Kurdistan. The group, known by the acronym KDPI, is a leftist armed
opposition force banned in Iran. Iraq's Foreign Ministry and the
Kurdistan Regional Government have condemned the strikes. The UN mission
in Iraq has also deplored the attack, saying <rocket diplomacy is a
reckless act with devastating consequences>. <These attacks need to
cease immediately,> the UN mission said on Twitter.>>
Read more here:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20220928-iran-conducts-deadly-strikes-in-iraq-s-kurdish-region-as-anti-veil-protests-mount
France 24
28 Sep 2022
<<Protest-hit Iran launches strikes that kill 9 in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Iran launched cross-border missile and drone strikes that killed nine
people in Iraq's Kurdistan region Wednesday after accusing Kurdish armed
groups based there of stoking a wave of unrest that has rocked the
Islamic republic. The September 16 death of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa
Amini, 22, while in the custody of Iran's morality police has sparked a
major wave of protests and a crackdown that has left scores of demon-strators
dead over the past 12 nights. Iran's Islamic Revo-lutionary Guard Corps
has in recent days accused the Iraq-based Kurdish groups of attacking
and infiltrating Iran from the northwest of the country to sow
insecurity and riots and spread unrest.After several earlier Iranian
cross-border attacks that caused no casualties, a barrage of missiles
and drones on Wednesday claimed nine lives and wounded 32, said the
regional health minister in Arbil, Saman al-Barazanji, while visiting
some off the wounded in a hospital in the capital of Iraq's autonomous
Kurdistan region. Kurdistan region. <There are civilians among the
victims>, including one of those killed, a senior official of the
Kurdistan region earlier told AFP.
An AFP correspondent reported smoke billowing from locations hit,
ambulances racing to the scene and residents fleeing, at Zargwez, about
15 kilometres (10 miles) from Sulaimaniyah, as medics were treating the
wounded.>>
Read more here:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220928-protest-hit-iran-launches-strikes-that-kill-9-in-iraqi-kurdistan
The Guardian
28 Sep 2022
By Nick Ames
<<Iran footballers show solidarity with protests over Mahsa Amini's
death.
Iran's players covered up their national symbols by wearing jackets
before the friendly with Senegal on Tuesday evening, showing solidarity
with protests against the repression of women in their home country. The
past 11 days have seen significant unrest in Iran after the death in
custody of Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested on 13 September for
refusing to wear a hijab. There have been widespread protests and before
their match in Maria Enzersdorf, a town just outside Vienna, the
national team made their anger visible. Carlos Queiroz's team wore black
jackets while the national anthems were play-ed, concealing their
country's colours and badge. The match was played behind closed doors by
edict of Iran's football association, which held the rights to the
fixture, but a sizeable number of demonstrators gathered outside in an
effort to make their voices heard on television feeds. On Sunday the
influential Iran forward Sardar Azmoun had spoken out in support of the
protests via his Instagram account. <At worst I'll be dismissed from the
national team,> wrote the Bayern Leverkusen player. <No problem. I'd
sacrifice that for one hair on the heads of Iranian women. This story
will not be deleted. They can do whatever they want. Shame on you for
killing so easily; long live Iranian women.> Azmoun, who scored in the
1-1 draw against Senegal and is expected to be a key player for Iran in
the World Cup in Qatar, deleted the post but published a new, less
strongly worded entry on Wednesday morning in support of Iranian women.
He has joined a number of teammates in blacking out the profile pictures
on his Instagram and Twitter accounts. Last week another national team
player, Zobeir Niknafs, produced an Instagram video in which he shaved
his head in solidarity with the protests. Gareth Southgate and his
assistant, Steve Holland, were among those allowed inside to watch the
game. >>
Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/sep/28/iran-footballers-show-solidarity-with-protests-over-mahsa-amini-death
The Guardian
27 Sep 2022
By Martin Chulov Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov Middle East
correspondent
<<When a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, died in regime custody 10
days ago, Kurdish corners of Iran were the first to erupt; their anger
at leaders they say have long oppressed them had an incendiary effect in
their towns and cities. The death of the 22-year-old, who refused to
wear a hijab on a visit to Tehran, quickly became a potent symbol of
defiance for a minority group that had long har-boured nationalistic
ambitions, which rarely stayed hidden, and often eschewed the values of
the country's hardline leaders. But some-thing happened along the way to
what could have been a Kurdish nationalist uprising; Iranians from
across the country fast shared in the outrage of the death of Amini and
the collective indignity it represented to a greater population. Soon
protesters on the streets of most of the country's provinces were
testing the limits of state forces. <It is not an Iranian revolution, or
even a Kurdish revolution,> said Rozhin, 25, from the Kurdish city of
Kermanshah. <It is a women's revolution.>
Demonstrations against the theocratic state's stance towards women show
little sign of slowing down in many parts of Iran. Women, who bear the
brunt of state constraints, have been particularly vocal, tearing down
pictures of Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the assassinated general
Qassem Suleimani. Both acts were unthinkable even months ago, but so too
was the spectacle of large numbers of women Kurdish, Persian and
minorities taking to the streets without hijabs. <It's now not about
Kurdish movement, neither about Persians,> said Karim, 27, from the town
of Bokan. <It's about 85 million humans who are fighting back for their
rights, socially, economically and in every aspect of life. One week ago
a Kurdish girl was a stranger in the capital of Iran and now her face is
known everywhere around the globe. This is not about national movement , this is beyond that; it's about women, and it's about our basic human
rights. <At this moment, every individual is thinking about fundamental
aims and problems to be solved. But I do not guarantee that after one
year the Kurds have another way of thinking about Persians. Kurds in
Iran account for roughly 10% of the country's population, and make up
roughly a quarter of the greater Kurdish presence in the Middle East,
scattered between west and eastern Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria
and southeastern Turkey. A century after the breakdown of post-first
world war Ottoman boundaries, there is no Kurdish state, and numerous
groups vie among populations to claim leadership roles among what
remains a fractured population whose search for a homeland has remained
elusive. Five years ago this week, Iraq's Kurds held a referendum on
stathood, which was passed overwhelmingly. However, within days, Iraq's
army, led by powerful militias and directed by Suleimani, pushed north
to seize the oil city of Kirkuk and retake much of the land seized by
Kurds after the ousting of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
....
Rozhin says the aftermath of the demonstrations is not being considered,
for now. <Women are struggling so much with so many problems. It's
obvious that people do not only have an issue with the hijab, but the
system of government. They have changed the definition of Islam. They
are killing many people. They are denying every single right of women.
They don't allow us to choose. It's not only about the hijab issue, it's about our right to make choices>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/27/how-death-kurdish-woman-galvanised-women-iran-mahsa-amini
The Guardian
26 Sep 2022
Supported by guardian.org
By Weronika Strzyzynska
<<At least 450 people have been arrested in Mazandaran, a northern
province of Iran, during the last 10 days of protests, according to the
province's chief prosecutor. Protests sparked by the death in police
custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini have spread across the country. They
have been met with internet shutdowns and violent repression. The
official death toll in the unrest is 41, and human rights groups say the
true number may be higher. Amnesty International said at least four
children had been killed by state forces since the beginning of the
protests. It described a <harrowing pattern> of <deliberate and unlawful
firing of live ammunition at protesters>. Heba Morayef, Amnesty's Middle
East and north Africa director, said: <The rising death toll is an
alarming indication of just how ruthless the authorities' assault on
human life has been under the darkness of the internet shutdown.>
....
Despite efforts to stop Iranians from accessing apps such as Instagram
and WhatsApp, videos of people allegedly killed during the protests have
been spreading on social media. Parents of young people killed during
the protests have expressed disap-pointment at the response from the
international community. <People expect the UN to defend us and the
protesters,> said the father of 21-year-old Milan Haghigi, quoted by
Amnesty International. <I too can condemn [the Iranian authorities], the
whole world can condemn them, but to what end this condem-nation?>
Videos showed protests on Sunday night in Tehran and cities including
Yazd, Isfahan and Bushehr. The Norway-based Kurdish rights group Hengaw
said a protest was held in Amini's home town of Saqqez despite a heavy
military presence, and there were reports of a 10-year-old girl being
taken to hospital after she was shot in the northern town of Bukan.
Other reports said students at three universities in Tehran were
refusing to attend lessons. >>
Agence France-Presse contributed to this report
Read the whole article here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/26/iran-protests-mahsa-amini-at-least-450-arrested-in-northern-province
Al Jazeera
25 Sep 2022
<<Iran pledges 'decisive action' as Mahsa Amini protests continue.
Iranian president's warning comes as social media videos showed
protesters back on the streets despite a crackdown that killed at least
41 people. Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has pledged to deal
<decisively> with the protests that have swept the country since the
death of a woman who was detained by the Iranian morality police.
Raisi's comments on Saturday came as protesters took to the streets for
a ninth consecutive night, defying a crackdown in which at least 41
people have been killed, according to state television. It said the toll
was based on its own count and official figures were yet to be released.
Hundreds of people have also been arrested, with protests reported in
most of the country's 31 provinces.
....
The president <stressed the necessity to distinguish between protest and
disturbing public order and security, and called the events a riot,>
state media reported.
....
Women have played a prominent role in the protests, waving and burning
their veils. Some have publicly cut their hair as furious crowds called
for the fall of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The protests have
been the largest to sweep Iran since demon-strations over fuel prices in
2019 when the Reuters news agency reported 1,500 people were killed in a
crackdown on protesters the bloodiest confrontation in the country's
history. On Friday, state-organised rallies took place in several
Iranian cities to counter the anti-government protests, and the army
promised to confront <the enemies> behind the unrest. State television
in Iran, which has accused armed exiled Iranian Kurdish dissidents of
involvement in the unrest, said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps
had fired artillery on bases of Kurdish opposition groups in the Kurdish
region of northern Iraq.
'Spiralling deadly response'
At least three times this week, mobile internet has been disrupted in
Iran, the NetBlocks watchdog has reported. Activists say the move is
intended to prevent video footage of the violence from reaching the
world. In an effort to help sustain internet connection, the United
States is making exceptions to its sanctions regime on Iran, a move Tehran said on Saturday was in line with Washington's hostile stance.
Rights group Amnesty International said protesters face a <spiralling
deadly response from security forces> and called for an independent
United Nations investigation. On the night of September 21, shootings by
security forces left at least 19 people dead, including three children,
it said. <The rising death toll is an alarming indication of just how
ruthless the authorities' assault on human life has been under the
darkness of the internet shutdown,> Amnesty said. State television
showed footage purporting to show calm had returned to many parts of the
capital Tehran late on Friday. <But in some western and northern areas
of Tehran and certain provinces, rioters des-troyed public property,> it
said, carrying footage of protesters setting fire to rubbish bins and a
car, marching, and throwing rocks. The activist Twitter account
1500tasvir carried videos of protests in Tehran's western district of
Sattarkhan showing protesters gathered at a square chanting: <Don't be
afraid, we are all in this together,> late on Saturday with a motorcycle
apparently belonging to riot police burning in the background. Another
video, purportedly from Saturday evening, showed a woman defiantly
swin-ging her headscarf above her head as she walked in the middle of a
Tehran street.
....
Demonstrators also took to the streets of cities in Iraq, Germany,
Greece, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the US on Saturday to express
solidarity with Iranian protesters. In Iraq, dozens of Iraqi and Iranian
Kurds rallied outside the UN compound in the northern city of Erbil,
carrying placards with Amini's photograph and chanting: <Death to the
dictator,> referring to Khamenei.>>
Read all here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/25/iran-vows-decisive-action-as-mahsa-amini-protests-continue
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Opinion by Gino d'Artali: I applaud the Iranian/Kurdisch women and men
putting their lives at stake to not only protest against the murdering
of Jhani Mahsa Amini but also against the 'morality police' and moreso
against dictator khamenei.
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