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JINA MAHSA AMINI
The face of Iran's protests. Her life, her dreams
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In memory of Jina 'Mahsa' Amini, the cornerstone of the 'Zan.
Zendegi. Azadi revolution.
16 February 2023 | By Gino d'Artali
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When one hurts or kills a women
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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.
Iranwire - 1 Dec 2023
<<Iranian Activist in Turkiye Pleas for Visa to Avoid Deportation
Iranian right activist Shilan Mirzaei, who has been languishing in a
deportation camp in northern Turkiye for more than a month, says she
will be sent back to Iran if she does not get a visa from a third
country. In an audio file released on November 30, Mirzaei says she has
been informed by Turkish immigration officials that she needs to obtain
an emergency visa and depart Turkiye within 60 days, or she will be
deported to Iran. <I only have 60 more days to escape the clutches of
the Islamic Republic's criminal regime and save my life and my family,>
says Mirzaei, a mother of two young children. Highlighting
inconsistencies in the Turkish court rulings, the activist says that her
prolonged detention in the Bandirma deportation camp <akin to a prison>
shows the authorities' intention to report her to Iran. The Turkish
government has restricted Mirzaei's ability to communicate about her
case for over 36 days, she says, adding that her repeated appeals to
various United Nations agencies for help have yielded no results.
Turkish authorities arrested Mirzaei and transferred her to the Bandirma
deportation camp on October 24. She was later informed that the Iranian
authorities had requested her extradition to Iran. The deportation of
asylum seekers, refugees and political and civil activists living in
Turkiye to Iran has seen a worrisome surge in recent years. UN refugee
officials have also reduced their activities in Turkiye and now defer
the handling of refugees to the government. Earlier this year, Turkiye
deported political activist Shahryar Baratinya to Iran, leading to his
imprisonment in Tehran's Evin prison.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/123073-iranian-activist-in-t%C3%BCrkiye-pleas-for-visa-to-avoid-deportation/
Iranwire - 1 Dec 2023
<<Detained Baha'i Mother Remains Missing 24 Days After Arrest
Over 24 days after the arrest of Iren Rahmani, a Baha'i citizen and
mother of two, her family still has no information on her whereabouts or
the charges against her. Her family, particularly her two young
children, aged 2 and 4, are struggling to cope with her absence and the
uncertainty surrounding her situation, according to a source who spoke
with IranWire. Rahmani was arrested on November 7, when security forces
raided the home of Babak Zeinali in Karaj, detaining 10 Baha'i citizens.
Among those detained Iren Rahmani and her husband Eman Ehsani. Agents
later accompanied the couple to their home, searched their property, and
then took both of them to an undisclosed location. On November 25, Eman
Ehsani and three other detainees were released on bail. Iran Rahmani's
family is concerned about her well-being and the lack of transparency
surrounding her arrest and detention. They have been able to contact her
only twice since she was taken away, and these brief interactions have
left them with more questions than clarity, according to the source.
Baha'is are routinely denied their fundamental rights to freedom of
religion or belief. They face systematic persecution in all areas of
life, including arbitrary arrests and imprisonments, home searches and
property confiscations, access to education and livelihoods, as well as
official hate speech in Iranian media, and even the right to proper
burials.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/bahais-of-iran/123081-detained-bahai-mother-remains-missing-24-days-after-arrest/
Iranwire - 1 Dec 2023
<<Two More Political Prisoners Arbitrarily Executed in Iran
The Iranian authorities have executed two more political prisoners,
bringing to 707 the number of executions in the country since the
beginning of the year, according to a human rights group. Ali Saber
Motlaq and Kamran Rezaei were hanged on November 30 in Rasht's Lakan
Prison and Shiraz Central Prison, respectively, the Norway-based Iran
Human Rights (IHR) group said. Motlaq, 62, was arrested in the 1980s on
charges of membership in the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI
or MEK) and murdering an Islamic Republic official. He was later
released and left the country.
After returning to Iran in 2019, he was rearrested and sentenced to
death in the same murder case, despite a lack of evidence. IHR said that
Rezaei was arrested in November 2019 during nationwide protests sparked
by an abrupt fuel price increase, and was sentenced to death over the
alleged killing of a member of the paramilitary Basij force. An informed
source told the group that Rezaei was forced to admit under torture to
killing the Basiji with a machete. IHR Director Mahmood Amiry Moghaddam
urged the international community to <break their silence on the
arbitrary execution of more than three people per day by the Islamic
Republic.> <The international community's silence on executions is
considered a green light by the Islamic Republic,> he added.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/123075-two-more-political-prisoners-arbitrarily-executed-in-iran/
Iranwire - 1 Dec 2023
<<Iranian Lawyer Rejects New Charges Against Rapper Salehi
The lawyer of Iranian dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi has criticized the
authorities over the <unlawful> rearrest of his client, saying that the
new accusations against him are totally unfounded. On November 30,
Salehi was returned to jail less than two weeks after his release on
bail. The judiciary's Mizan news agency said that he is accused of
<publishing false information and disturbing the public mind.> Salehi
was released from prison on November 18 after spending more than a year
in custody. In a video published after his release, he describes the
torture he endured during his detention and said he had filed a
complaint against Isfahan's General Intelligence Department. Mizan
claimed that neither Salehi nor his lawyer Amir Raisian have filed any
complaint. Raisian rejected this claim, asserting that the case was sent
to Branch 14 of the Public Prosecutor's Office.
The lawyer also revealed that two individuals were arrested and taken to
an undisclosed location along with Salehi. Salehi, 32, was initially
arrested in October 2022 after making public statements in support of
nationwide protests that had erupted the previous month. A court
sentenced him to six years and three months in prison in July on a
charge of <corruption on Earth.> His release on bail came after the
Supreme Court found <flaws in the original sentence> and sent the case
back to a lower court. The artist had spent nearly 13 months in custody,
including 252 days in solitary confinement. In his video published on
November 27, Salehi says he neither admitted guilt nor cooperated with
the security forces, despite the torture and other ill-treatment he
endured while in custody. <They tortured me for a prolonged time,
striking me on the head and face, and even breaking my arm and leg,> he
says, adding that his jailers most probably injected him with adrenaline
to keep him conscious in order to subject him to more torture.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/123067-iranian-lawyer-rejects-new-charges-against-rapper-salehi/
Iranwire - 1 Dec 2023
<<Hundreds of Fake Apps Floods Iranian Banking Sector
A cybercampaign targeting customers of Iranian banks has grown in
magnitude in recent months, with nearly 300 malicious Android apps
targeting users for their account credentials, credit cards and crypto
wallets, researchers say. The campaign first came to light in July, when
researchers from Sophos detailed a cluster of 40 credential-harvesting
apps targeting customers of four major Iranian banks - Bank Mellat, Bank
Saderat, Resalat Bank and Central Bank of Iran. These apps mimicked
legitimate versions found on Cafe Bazaar, a smartphone application
marketplace popular in Iran, and were distributed through phishing
websites. Hackers were able to install and hide their copycat apps on
victims' phones, harvesting logins, intercepting SMS messages, and
stealing financial information. This week, the US-based cybersecurity
firm Zimperium revealed the existence of 245 more apps associated with
the same, ongoing campaign that now targets customers of 12 Iranian
banks. In the new campaign, the hackers incorporated additional evasion
tactics to fly under the radar and added more capabilities to their
malware to make it easier to harvest credentials and steal data. Besides
banks, the attackers have also started probing for data relating to
cryptocurrency platforms. The fake apps have been limited to Android
devices, but evidence suggests that the hackers are now likely working
on a malware variant that targets iOS devices, the researchers said. It
is not yet clear which threat actor is behind the campaign and how many
users were affected by it.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/technology/123059-hundreds-of-fake-apps-floods-iranian-banking-sector/
NCRI - Womens committee - 30 Nov 2023 - in Women's News
<<Zahra Safaei and her children are sentenced to 15 years in jail
Political prisoner Zahra Safaei and her children, Parastoo Moini and
Mohammad Massoud Moini have been sentenced to five years imprisonment,
each. The 26th Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran issued these
verdicts. Zahra Safaei and her children were informed of their sentences
on November 26, 2024. They were sentenced to five years in prison on
charges of <collusion and assembly to commit a crime against national
security.>
Zahra Safaei and her children's trial convened on November 18, 2024.
Zahra Safaei and her children were arrested on September 13, 2023, on
the eve of the anniversary of last year's uprising, by Intelligence
Ministry agents in Tehran and transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison.
Zahra Safaei and Parastoo Moini were released from jail on February 9,
2023, after three years of captivity, torture, and mistreatment in the
Qarchak and Evin prisons.
Who is Zahra Safaei?
Security forces arrested Zahra Safaei and her daughter, Parastoo Moini,
in Tehran on February 24, 2020. They were subsequently transferred to
the Intelligence Ministry's detention center (Ward 209 of Evin Prison).
Zahra Safaei and Parastoo Moini were transferred to Qarchak Prison in
early March 2020. On June 28, 2020, Mrs. Safaei was temporarily released
from Qarchak Prison, until the end of her trial, on bail of 300 million
Tomans. But she was rearrested on July 26, 2020, when she went to the
Prosecutor's Office of Evin Prison to review her case and that of her
daughter. On July 27, 2020, she was transferred to Qarchak Prison.
Political prisoner Zahra Safaei, 60, suffered a heart stroke on October
27, 2020, after being harassed and intimidated by prison authorities.
Zahra Safaei, born in 1962, is the daughter of Hassan Ali Safaei, one of
Tehran Bazaar's well-known merchants. Mr. Safaei was one of the
political prisoners under the deposed Shah time, who was executed in
Evin Prison by the mullahs' regime in 1981 for being a PMOI supporter.
Zahra Safaei was a political prisoner in the 1960s for eight years in
Evin and Qezel Hesar prisons for supporting the People's Mojahedin
Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Zahra Safaei (middle), and her daughter and son
Who is Parastoo Moini?
Parastoo Moini, an electrical engineering student at Qazvin
International University, was arrested on February 24, 2020. Security
forces broke into their home, brutalized her and her mother, Zahra
Safaei, and arrested them. After spending one year in temporary
detention, she was sentenced to 5 years in prison on charges of
<assembly and collusion.> In May 2020, Ms. Moini, upon her release from
solitary confinement, attempted to continue her studies in Qarchak
Prison. However, university officials said that she could not study
while in prison. As a result, she requested to withdraw from the final
exams through the prison's judicial department. On the eve of the
beginning of the new semester at school, she requested to return to her
studies at Qazvin International University through the Special Cases
Commission. In the final week of May, she was informed that she had been
expelled and prohibited from entering the dormitory and university
premises.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/11/30/zahra-safaei-and-her-children/
Iranwire - 30 Nov 2023
<<Istanbul Conference on Iran Uprising Canceled to <Not Offend the
Islamic Republic>
A French anthropologist who was scheduled to hold a conference in Turkey
on Iran's Woman, Life, Freedom protest movement says the event has been
canceled <to not offend the Islamic Republic of Iran in the current
context of the war in Gaza.> Chowra Makaremi said on the social media
platform X that the conference, which was set to take place at the
French Institute of Anatolian Studies in Istanbul on December 1, was
called off <at the request of the French Embassy.>
<A shame: it's more important than ever to talk about uprisings and
revolutionary feminism. To destroy these binary logics of realpolitik &
war, which leave no prospect of political emancipation,> the researcher
of Iranian origin said in a separate post. <The betrayal of the Iranian
people is total and complete, and serves no one anywhere, in the region
or elsewhere,> she also wrote. The conference was organized after the
publication of her book Women ! Life ! Freedom ! Echoes of a
Revolutionary Uprising in Iran.
The monthslong demonstrations demanding fundamental changes in Iran were
sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody for an
alleged head-scarf violation. They were brutally put down by security
forces. More than 500 people were killed in the repression and over
20,000 were unlawfully detained, including many journalists, human
rights advocates and civil activists. Following biased trials, the
judiciary has handed down stiff sentences, including the death penalty,
to protesters.>>
Source
https://iranwire.com/en/politics/123041-istanbul-conference-on-iran-uprising-canceled-to-not-offend-the-islamic-republic/
Iranwire - 30 Nov 2023
<<Iranian Protest Rapper Salehi Arrested Again
Prominent Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was rearrested in the northern
city of Babol, less than two weeks after his release from more than a
year in captivity. According to reports shared on Salehi's social media
accounts, the singer was detained by armed plainclothes agents on
November 30 and taken to an undisclosed location. The judiciary's Mizan
news agency said that he is accused of <publishing false information and
disturbing public opinion.> Salehi, 32, was initially arrested in
October 2022 after making public statements in support of nationwide
protests that had erupted the previous month. His detention sparked
widespread condemnation in Iran and abroad, and prompted international
campaigns calling for his release.
Despite that, a court sentenced him to six years and three months in
prison in July on a charge of <corruption on Earth.> He was freed on
bail on November 18 after the Supreme Court returned his case to a lower
court. The artist had spent nearly 13 months in custody, including 252
days in solitary confinement. In a video published on his YouTube
channel on November 27, Salehi said that he neither admitted guilt nor
cooperated with the security forces, despite the torture and other
ill-treatment he endured while in custody. <They tortured me for a
prolonged time, striking me on the head and face, and even breaking my
arm and leg,> he says, adding that his jailers most probably injected
him with adrenaline to keep him conscious in order to subject him to
more torture.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/123043-iranian-protest-rapper-salehi-arrested-again/
Iranwire - 30 Nov 2023
<<New Committee Formed in Iran to Harass Female University Students
Iranian authorities have established a committee tasked with
intimidating and harassing female students at several universities,
including Tabriz University in the country's northwest. On November 29,
the Telegram channel of the Student Union Councils reported the creation
of the informal parallel institution called <Afad,> an acronym for
<Social Cultural Action at University.> Afad has been sending SMS
messages to mainly female students, accusing them of violating <hijab
regulations> and demanding they appear before the committee for
questioning, the councils said. The student organization said that Afad
is using a list provided by university security officers. Student
activists have protested the increased security measures put in place on
campuses across the country and stricter enforcement of the mandatory
headscarf law since the start of the academic year.
These measures include hundreds of summonses to disciplinary committees,
disciplinary actions, temporary suspensions, and expulsions of students
and faculty members.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/123026-new-committee-formed-in-iran-to-harass-female-university-students/
And read more here about the 'Unveiled and Unbroken'
www.cryfreedom.net/ZAA-JMA-2023Nov-Unveiled-And-Unbroken.htm
Iranwire - 30 Nov 2023
<<Baha'i Woman in Mashhad Sentenced to a Year in Prison Her Beliefs
Branch 37 of the Court of Appeal of Khorasan Razavi province has
sentenced Noshin Mesbah, a Baha'i resident of Mashhad, to one year in
prison on the charge of being a member of the Baha'i community. Branch 1
of the Revolutionary Court of Mashhad, headed by Judge Hadi Mansouri,
had previously sentenced Mesbah to three years in prison on the charge
of being <a member of a group ... with the intention of disrupting
national security> due to her Baha'i faith. She was also sentenced to
eight months in prison for <propaganda activities> against the Islamic
Republic.
However, the provincial appeals court has reduced the initial sentence.
According to the decision of the Court of Appeal, Mesbah was sentenced
to one year in prison. The court acquitted Mesbah of the charge of
<propaganda activities.> Baha'is are routinely denied their fundamental
rights to freedom of religion or belief. They face systematic
persecution in all areas of life, including arbitrary arrests and
imprisonments, home searches and property confiscations, access to
education and livelihoods, as well as official hate speech in Iranian
media, and even the right to proper burials.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/bahais-of-iran/123029-bahai-woman-in-mashhad-sentenced-to-a-year-in-prison-her-beliefs/
Iranwire - 30 Nov 2023
<<Iranian Authorities Destroy Homes of Ethnic Baluch in Zahedan
Iranian authorities have destroyed the homes of members of the Baluch
community in the southeastern city of Zahedan, according to a group that
monitors rights violations in Sistan and Baluchistan. Haalvsh reported
that police and municipal forces raided the homes in Shirabad
neighborhood on the morning of November 30, cut off the electricity in
the area and evicted the families before the houses were demolished
using loaders.
The group reported a heavy security presence in the area.
It was unclear what prompted the destruction. Zahedan is the capital of
Sistan and Baluchistan, which is home to the country's Sunni Baluch
minority of up to 2 million people. A few weeks ago, police sealed off
private schools in the Shirabad area of Zahedan. The reason invoked was
that the schools were being managed by Sunni clerics. The Iranian
Teachers' Union Council published a video of one of the schools, stating
that at least 400 underprivileged students were enrolled there. The
council emphasized that the teachers of the school, who received <meager
salaries,> were <prohibited from working.> According to the
representative of Sistan and Baluchistan in the Supreme Council of
Provinces, one third of students in the province are forced to drop out
of school due to problems such as school shortages and rising tuition
costs.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/123028-iranian-authorities-destroy-homes-of-ethnic-baluch-in-zahedan/
Iranwire - 30 Nov 2023
<<Father Of Executed Iranian Protester Detained for Over 100 Days
The father of Mohammad Mehdi Karami, an Iranian protester executed in
January, has now been arbitrarily held in Karaj Central Prison for more
than 100 days, with no charges being brought against him. On August 21,
agents of the Ministry of Intelligence arrested Mashallah Karami at his
home in Karaj, near Tehran. His electronic devices, including his laptop
and mobile phone, and those of his relatives were confiscated and their
bank cards were blocked. Karami was held in the Karaj Intelligence
Department detention center until October 28, when he was then
transferred to Karaj Central prison. Sources say the judiciary has set a
bail amount of 7 billion tomans ($140,000) for his temporary release, an
exorbitant amount the family has been unable to gather. The authorities
have also arbitrarily detained Karami's lawyer, Amir Hossein Kohkan.
Over the past 100 days, intelligence forces raided the Karami family's
home twice, destroying medals belonging to their son and damaging their
property. According to Informed sources, Karami's wife and her other son
have been forced to leave their home due to harassment by security
forces. Mohammad Mehdi Karami was sentenced to death in December 2022
and executed the following month over his alleged involvement in the
death of a member of the Basij paramilitary force during an
anti-government demonstration. Following the execution, Mashallah Karami
published images of himself visiting the graves of his son and Mohammad
Hosseini, who was also sentenced to death in the case and executed in
January. The defendants were sentenced to capital punishment based on
<confessions> extracted under torture. They didn't have access to legal
counsel during the proceedings.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/123030-father-of-executed-iranian-protester-detained-for-over-100-days/
Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - Nov 29 2023
<<Osman Qaderi arrested by Iranian security forces in Naghadeh
A Kurdish citizen from the city of Naghadeh named Osman Qaderi was
arrested by the Iranian security forces in this city and transferred to
an undisclosed location. According to the report received by the Hengaw
Organization for Human Rights, on the morning of Sunday, November 26,
2023, Osman Qaderi, 54 years old and from Naghadeh, was arrested by the
Iranian security forces. According to an informed source, the Iranian
security forces arrested this citizen by entering his home without a
warrant, and the follow-up of his family to find out about his condition
has been fruitless.
So far, there is no precise information about the accusations against
Osman Qaderi and the reasons for his arrest by the Iranian security
forces.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2023/11/osman-qaderi-arrested-by-iranian-security-forces-in-naghadeh
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