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JINA MAHSA AMINI
The face of Iran's protests. Her life, her dreams
and her death.
And also
Read all about the assasination of the 22 year young Jhina Mahsa
Amini or Zhina Mahsa Amini (Kurdistan-Iran) and the Zan,
zendagi, Azadi (Women, life, freedom) revolution in Iran
2022
and the ZZA Revolution per month:
May 31 -16--
May 15-1---April--March--Feb--Jan
2023
covering
the period of the 'Women Life Freedom' revolution in 2023 and
with links to the period of the murdering of Jina Mahsa Amini on September 2022
'till December 2022..
updated 25 May 2023
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'TO WEAR
OR NOT TO WEAR A HIJAB i.e. TO BE OR NOT TO BE A FREE WOMAN'
Updated
AND AND
NEW: May - April 2023 - 'IRANIAN JOURNALISTS UNDER SIEGE' |
UPDATES: LINKS 2 'Blinding as a weapon' (menu to the right) AND
'Biological terror attacks' (menu to the left) go here:
www.cryfreedom.net/ZZA-JINA-FFF3-blinded-april-2023-eye-of-the-dragon.htm
Gino d'Artali
Indept investigative journalist
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ALL ON THIS PAGE
Click here for the 2022 'Chapters'
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.
NCRI - Womens Committe - in Women's News - May 15, 2023
<<Iran: Disciplinary Actions Taken Against Student Activists
In recent disciplinary actions at universities across Iran, several
students have faced severe penalties for their alleged involvement in
activities leading to expulsion or academic suspension. Here are the
details of the cases:
Motahareh Gouneii Expelled and Banned for Five Years
Motahareh Gouneii, a dentistry student and the political secretary of
the Students Association at Tehran University and its School of Medical
Sciences, has been expelled from the university and prohibited from
studying at any institution for the next five years. The decision was
made by the Disciplinary Council based on allegations of creating chaos
and unrest within the university. Gouneii was also among the detainees
of the nationwide 2022-2023 Iran protests.
Fatemeh Sadrifar Receives Academic Suspension and Change of Study
Location
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Sepideh Rashno Banned from Al-Zahra University
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These disciplinary actions highlight the plight of student activists in
Iran. The cases of Motahareh Gouneii, Fatemeh Sadrifar, and Sepideh
Rashno illustrate the various reasons behind these penalties and the
potential impact on students’ academic futures.>>
Read more about them here:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/05/15/disciplinary-actions/
Iranwire - May 15, 2023 - By MANA NEYESTANI - Cartoons
<<The Master's Family Planning. <More children, happier lives.> The
Islamic Republic escalates executions in a bid to sow fear and suppress
popular protests, while desperately enforcing policies aimed at
encouraging Iranians to have more children.>>
View the cartoons here:
https://iranwire.com/en/cartoons/116561-the-masters-family-planning/
Iranwire - May 15, 2023
<<Hijab is the Islamic Republic's <Symbol,> Iranian Vice President Says
Mohammad Dehghan, Iran's vice president for legal affairs, has once
against revealed the misogynistic nature of the country's clerical
regime by stating that <hijab is the symbol of the Islamic Republic.>
<Without hijab, the Islamic Republic would not have much of a meaning,>
Dehghan said on May 13, adding, <So we must not be negligent on this
issue.> When asked whether women who flout the Islamic Republic's strict
dress code are all felons, he answered, <No, the felons are those who
promote not wearing hijab in an organized way. They are usually
connected to foreign countries, and they apparently play the role of
mercenaries who promote not wearing hijab.> A growing number of Iranian
women have appeared in public without the compulsory head covering since
Mahsa Amini's death in the custody of morality police in September last
year triggered months of widespread protests demanding economic, social
and political changes. In response, authorities have closed down
hundreds of businesses due to the failure of owners or managers to
observe hijab rules. Police and volunteers issue warnings in subways,
airports and other public places. Text messages have targeted drivers
who had women without head covering in their vehicles.>>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/116568-hijab-is-the-islamic-republics-symbol-iranian-vice-president-says/
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: What the vice president really is saying is
when all free women burn their hijab the Islamic republic will be burned
to ashes. Or in the words of Sepideh Qoliyan <Khamenei the Zahhak! We'll
take you down into the grave,> Sepideh Qoliyan shouted outside Evin
prison, referring to a mythical king said to have fed serpents growing
out of his shoulders with young people's brains.>
Iranwire - May 15, 2023
<< <We Want our Rights!> Iranian Retirees Protest Over Deteriorating
Living Conditions
Retirees from the telecommunications sector staged coordinated rallies
in multiple cities across Iran to protest the government’s failure to
improve their living conditions. On May 15 in North Khorasan province,
retirees gathered in front of the province's telecommunications center
in Birjand and chanted slogans such as <We want our rights> and <We will
not give up.> Retirees in Shahrekord, in Chaharmahal Bakhtiari province,
protested the non-payment of their medical and welfare claims on time.
Similar protests were led in the cities of Isfahan, Khorramabad, Ahvaz,
Mashhad, Isfahan and Karaj, near Tehran. The protests were organized by
the Free Workers' Union of Iran. Unrest has rattled Iran since last
summer in response to declining living standards, wage arrears and a
lack of welfare support amid the Islamic Republic's increasing isolation
and a worsening economic situation partly triggered by years of
sanctions. The September death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in
police custody breathed new life into the protests. Last month, the
government announced the resignation of the education minister after a
delay in payments to teachers. And in 2022, the labor minister lost his
post after protests by workers and retirees over payments.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/116563-we-want-our-rights-iranian-retirees-protest-over-deteriorating-living-conditions/
Iranwire - May 15, 2023 - By SOLMAZ EIKDAR
The Dubious <Confessions> of Three Iranians at Imminent Risk of
Execution
The recent broadcast of a video showing the forced <confessions> of
three Iranian men sentenced to death on Iranian state TV has raised
concerns about their imminent execution in the central city of Isfahan.
On May 12, Amnesty International warned that Majid Kazemi, Saleh
Mirhashemi and Saeed Yaghoubi could be executed at any time after the
Supreme Court upheld their <unjust> convictions and death sentences
earlier this month. The London-based human rights watchdog urged Supreme
Leader Ali Khamenei to immediately halt any plans to execute the trio
and quash their convictions and death sentences. Mirhashemi was twice
sentenced to death, while Kazemi and Yaghoubi were handed capital
punishment and a 10-year prison sentence in relation to the death of
three members of the paramilitary Basij force during protests in Isfahan
on November 15, 2022.
In an interview with IranWire, a cousin of Kazemi who resides in Sydney,
Australia, said that the narrative presented by the Islamic Republic's
state TV is <contradictory, ambiguous, and even false.> Mohammad Hashemi
said that Kazemi's appointed lawyers were sure that his sentence would
be reduced after the case was referred to the Supreme Court. He said
that the broadcast of the forced <confessions> after the court upheld
the verdicts terrified the trio's families. After the case was referred
to the Supreme Court, he also said, the families received information
that Asadullah Jafari, the chief prosecutor of Isfahan province, sent
two busloads of people to Tehran to gather in front of the court with
the aim of exerting pressure to get the death sentences confirmed and
quickly executed. It is evident that Kazemi, Mirhashemi and Yaghoubi
were coerced into making <confessions> for crimes they did not commit.
In the video broadcast on state TV, the defendants claimed to have had
<access to weapons> and that they did <a lot of shooting.> Although they
mentioned the presence of other individuals who were also <shooting,>
they did not mention any violence directed toward security forces.
Besides, the Supreme Court acknowledged that Mirhashemi denied carrying
any weapons, and the weapon allegedly belonging to him has not been
recovered. The video of the <confessions> is only 4 minutes and 16
seconds long, but it has been edited 53 times to include images from the
night of the incident, the defendants' accusations against each other,
the moment of their arrest and the reconstruction of the crime scene.
The clip contains several errors. For instance, it claims to show the
moment when one of the defendants was arrested by agents of Isfahan's
Sahib Al-Zaman Corps. However, the images clearly show that the
defendant's hands are tied behind his back. This calls into question the
credibility of the entire video. If its creators are capable of making
such a basic mistake, it is possible that they have also fabricated
other parts of the video.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/116555-the-dubious-confessions-of-three-iranians-at-imminent-risk-of-execution/
Jinha - Womens News Agency - May 15, 2023
<<Activists held in Evin prison deprived of their right to make phone
calls
News Center- People held in Iran's prisons have faced rights violations.
According to the received reports, five political prisoners being held
at the women's ward of Evin Prison in Tehran have been banned from
making phone calls. Fariba Kamalabadi, Mahosh Thabit, Narges Mohammadi,
Golrokh Iraee and Faezeh Hashemi were arrested in April for
participating in the virtual conference called <Dialogue to Save Iran>.
Being held at the women’s ward of Evin prison, five political prisoners
have been banned from making phone calls. The virtual conference called
<Dialogue to Save Iran> was held on the Clubhouse app between April 21
and 22. After the conference, many activists were arrested on charges of
<propagandizing against the regime>, <participation in illegal
gatherings> and <preparation and publication of images of illegal
gatherings on channels opposed to the regime>.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/activists-held-in-evin-prison-deprived-of-their-right-to-make-phone-calls-33273
Jina - Womens News Agency - May 15, 2023
<<Iranian teacher Ateke Rajabi released on bail
News Center- Since the nationwide protests started in Iran and Rojhelat
following the killing of Jina Mahsa Amini in September 2022, the Iranian
regime has used all kinds of methods to quell the protests. Hundreds of
people, including academics, artists, activists and journalists have
been arrested in the country since September 2022. Iranian teacher Ateke
Rajabi was arrested on May 9, 2023 after leaving her home to take part
in a protest held by the Coordinating Council of Teachers' Union in the
northeastern city of Mashhad. She went on a hunger strike in prison to
protest her incarceration. Yesterday (Sunday), on the fifth day of her
hunger strike, she was released from the prison in Mashhad on bail.
Ateke Rajabi was fired from her job last year after she refused to go to
class in September and published videos criticizing the government's
<unjust treatment> against students and teachers who are simply
demanding their rights be respected.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/iranian-teacher-ateke-rajabi-released-on-bail-33272
Iranwire - May 15, 2023- By FARAMARZ DAVAR - Interview
<<Ardeshir Zahedi - New Secrets
....
It is worth listening to the 27-hour interview of Ardeshir Zahedi with
Habib Lajevardi. His tone is honest and audacious and sometimes he uses
word that are close to being offensive. His love for the Shah is
especially evident in tape no. 21, about when the Shah, in the last
hours of his life, is in a hospital in Cairo. It is perhaps one of the
most painful parts of the interview. As the interview shows, Zahedi was
extremely respectful of Mohammad Reza Shah till the end of his life but
he was also blunt and unsparing in criticizing him and blaming him for
the current sorry situation in Iran. Perhaps that is why he did not want
the interview to go public while he was alive. Nevertheless, in his last
years of his life, in more intimate gatherings and even in some of his
public pronouncements, he explicitly criticized the Shah for his
policies and for leaving the country before the 1979 revolution.>>
Read the complete interview here:
https://iranwire.com/en/politics/116543-ardeshir-zahedi-interview-new-secrets/
Note from Gino d'Artali: Dear reader, I simply leave it up to you to yes
or no read the interview. I read it but I was and am doubting if it is
to the benefit of the 'Women, Life, Freedom' revolution.
Iranwire - May 15, 2023
<<Baha'i Prisoner of Conscience Barred from Receiving Visitors for Three
Weeks
In her last phone conversation, Fariba Kamalabadi, a Baha'i prisoner of
conscience in Iran's Evin Prison, told her family that she has been
barred from receiving visitors for three weeks after contributing a
letter to the virtual How to Save Iran seminar held last month on
Clubhouse. The virtual seminar, held on April 21-22, saw the
participation of more than 40 political, social and human rights
activists inside and outside Iran. Some participants even joined from
inside the Islamic Republic's prisons. Fariba Kamalabadi was arrested on
July 31, 2022, at her home in Tehran and since has been held at Evin
Prison. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison after a one-hour trial
by Judge Iman Afshari, presiding over the Revolutionary Court’s Branch
26, on charges such as <administering a group belonging to the deviant
group [meaning the Baha'is] aimed at undermining national security>.
Kamalabadi and seven other former members of Iran's informal Baha'i
leadership group, the Yaran or <Friends> of Iran, were jailed for a
previous 10 years between 2007-2017 on charges which their lawyer, the
Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, said were never substantiated. The activist
Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani was one of Kamalabadi's most prominent
supporters during her imprisonment. Iran's revolutionary appeals court
has yet to rule on the verdict.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/bahais-of-iran/116546-bahai-prisoner-of-conscience-barred-from-receiving-visitors-for-three-weeks/
Iranwire - May 15, 2023
<<Row over Hijab Sparkes Violence at Tehran University
The security guards of Tehran University attacked students at the School
of Fine Arts on May 13 after a quarrel with a student over her head
covering. The guards reportedly beat a number of students who had come
to the defense of the female student. According to the Telegram channel
of Iranian Students' Unions, the security guards accosted a number of
female students as others protested by chanting slogans such as <Woman,
Life, Freedom,> <Students will die but will not be humiliated,> and
<Death to the Leader after so many years of crime.> The report said that
the security guards followed and locked a student in a classroom where
she had taken shelter and tried to confiscate her mobile phone and
student ID. The guards also insulted and beat professors and an old
university watchman, and harshly pressed the throat of one of the
students. On the same day, Sepideh Reshnoo, a student at Tehran's
Alzahra University who was arrested and tortured after she was filmed
arguing with a woman on a bus over forced hijab, reported that she had
been suspended from the university for two semester for not abiding by
the Islamic Republic's dress code.>>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/116547-row-over-hijab-sparkes-violence-at-tehran-university/
Iranwire - May 15, 2023
Security Forces Fire Tear Gas at Iranians Protesting Trio's Imminent
Execution
Security force have used violence to disperse hundreds of Iranians who
had gathered around a prison in the central city of Isfahan overnight in
an attempt to prevent the imminent execution of three protesters. The
families of the three inmates on death row -- Majid Kazemi, Saleh
Mirhashemi and Saeed Yaghoubi -- gathered outside Dastgerd prison on May
14 and asked for supporters to join them. Kazemi's cousin, Mohammad,
tweeted that the trio was expected to be executed on May 15. A riot
squad fired tear gas at the protesters, but rallies in the city
continued until 3 a.m. on May 15, with many demonstrators honking their
cars. On May 12, Amnesty International expressed grave concern that
Kazemi, Mirhashemi and Yaghoubi are at imminent risk of execution after
the Supreme Court upheld their <unjust> convictions and death sentences
earlier this month.
Mirhashemi was twice sentenced to death, while Kazemi and Yaghoubi were
handed capital punishment and a 10-year prison sentence in relation to
the death of three members of the paramilitary Basij force during
protests in Isfahan on November 15, 2022. The Dadban Legal Group, which
provides legal advice to protesters in Iran, said there was no reliable
evidence proving the accusations made against the defendants, and that
the only document available in the case was their <forced confessions.>
The defendants were present at the scene of the protests but none of
them has ever admitted shooting at Basij members, according to the
group.>>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/116545-security-forces-fire-tear-gas-at-iranians-protesting-trios-imminent-execution/
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