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Welcome to cryfreedom.net, formerly known as Womens Liberation Front.  A website that hopes to draw and keeps your attention for  both the global 21th. century 3rd. feminist revolution as well as especially for the Zan, Zendegi, Azadi uprising in Iran and the struggles of our sisters in other parts of the Middle East. This online magazine that started December 2019 will be published every week. Thank you for your time and interest.
Gino d'Artali
indept investigative journalist
radical feminist and women's rights activist 
 


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JINA MAHSA AMINI
The face of Iran's protests. Her life, her dreams and her death.

In memory of Jina 'Mahsa' Amini, the cornerstone of the 'Zan. Zendegi. Azadi revolution.
16 February 2023 | By Gino d'Artali

And also
Read all about the assasination of the 22 year young Jina Mahsa Amini (Kurdistan-Iran) and the start of the Zan, Zendegi, Azadi (Women, life, freedom) revolution in Iran  2022-'23
and the latest news about the 'Women Live Freedom' Revolution per month in 2023: Dec 15 - 1 -- Nov. 27 - Dec. 8 -- Nov-Dec-wk1-2  -- November 26 - 20 -- November 19 - 13  -- November 13 - 4  -- November 5 - 1 -- October 31 -- October 31 - 16 --  October 15 - 1 -- September 30 - 16 -- September 17 - 1 -- August 31 - 18 -- August 15 - 1-- July 31 - 16 --July 15 -1--June 30 - 15--June 15-1--May 31 -16-- May 15-1--April--March--Feb--Jan  


Tribute to KIAN PIRFALA, 9 years old and victim of the Islamic Republic's savagery 10 years ago.

And
For all topics below
that may hopefully interest you click on the image:

'THE NO-HIJABIS

Updated December 5, 2023

'BIOLOGICAL
TERROR ATTACKS
AGAINST SCHOOLGIRLS'

Updated October 10, 2023

'IRANIAN JOURNALISTS
UNDER SIEGE'

Updated December 1, 2023

'BLINDING
AS A WEAPON'

Updated November 17, 2023 

'THE HANGING SPREE'

 Updated November 29, 2023

CLICK HERE ON HOW TO READ ALL ON THIS PAGE 

Here we are to enter THE IRANIAN WOMEN'S REVOLUTIONISTS against
the supreme leader, the arch-reactionary Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his placeman president, Ebrahim Raisi. The message of the women when he visited a university is plain: <give way or get lost> in 2023.
IN MEMORY OF ASRA PANAHI (16)- JHINA MAHSA AMINI (22) - NIKA SHAKARAMI (16), SARINA ESMAILZADEH (16) HADIS NAJAFI (20), AND MORE WOMEN WHO WERE ASSASINATED SO FAR BY THE IRANIAN AXIS OF EVIL.
  Click here for a total list so far

'Facing Faces and Facts 1-2'  (2022) to commemorate the above named and more and food for thought and inspiration to fight on.
and 'Facing Faces & Facts 3' edited December 2022/March 2023

Dear reader, from here on the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' pages menu will look a bit different and this to avoid too many pop-ups ,meaning the underlined period  in yellow tells you in what period you are and click on another underlinded period to go there. However, when needed a certain topic will be in yellow meaning it's a link to go that topic and will open in a new window. If you dissagree about any change feel more than free to let me know what you think at info@cryfreedom.net
This does not count for the  above topics which, when clicked on, will still appear in a pop-up window and for now the 'old' lay-out 'till I worked that all out. Thank you. Gino d'Artali
(Updates December 8, 2023)

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UPDATES OF THE UPRISING  AND REVOLUTION AROUND THE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF JINA AMINI IN CUSTODY OF THE REGIME'S ATTEMPT AND CRUELTY TO TRY AND CRUSH IT. 

Articles about
<<Mahsa Amini's Father: <Everything They Have Said and Shown is Lies>
and
WHO JINA AMINI REALLY WAS.
By Diako Alavi, a journalist from Saqqez and family friend of Mahsa Amini 
and
Jina Amini, the face of Irans uprising and revolution:
www.cryfreedom.net/the-face-of-irans-protests.htm

November 15, 2023 - <<Iranian Woman Arrested on Jinas' Anniversary Tells Her Story...>
 

Updates of Jina Aminis' Revolution:
Part 12: October 6 - 2 2023
Part 13: October 13 - 12, 2023
Part 14: November 15 - October 25, 2023
Part
15: November 30 - 13, 2023
   

and links to earlier parts
 
Gino d'artali's opinion: We mourn AND fight!
 

 


We all grief for the loss of our sister / daughter of Iran Armita Gevarnand:
 
 

Updated:
December 6 - November 27 - 20, 2023
In the aftermath of the killing of Armita more and more voices speak out against the mullahs' regime children killers. Read more by clicking the above link.
November 16, 2023
 <<More Hijab Patrols Recruited in Tehran Metro Stations....
November 15 - 6, 2023
<<Jailed Iranian Rights Lawyer Sotoudeh Released on Bail....
<<Jailed Iranian Activist Sotoudeh: We Feminized Evin Prison with Our Hair....
and
<<Women Arrested at Iranian Teen's Funeral Face Hasty Trial....
and

<<Iranian journalist Negar Ostad Agha taken to Gharchak Prison....


 

November 6 - 3 2023
<<Egyptian activists: We must take action for Iranian women....

 
3 November 2023 <<UN Experts <Shocked> by Attacks on Women, Girls in Iran...
and
<<HRW Calls for Probe into Death of Teenage Girl in Iran...

 Click here to read more and also what  happened to other sisters being victims of the mullahs' regime

NARGES MOHAMMADI
*Victory is not easy, but it is certain*
'Mother of a long and free Iran'


Preface by Gino d'Artali and updated news December 8 - October 31, 2023
and
*In memory of the brave women who laid down their lives

for democracy and freedom in Iran*

November 25, 2023 - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

YPJ Women combatants
If one thinks the women in Iran and the Middle east have lost the battle think again after reading the above reports.

 

Please do read the following 3 articles even when they have a very allarming content - click on the underlined topics -
<<Iranian Security Forces Weaponized Rape to Crush 2022 Uprising...
and
<<IranWire Exclusive: IRGC and Police Training Together to Suppress Protesters...
and
<< <Preventing Injury of Women> Bill Fails to Mention Violence...

but please
also read the in my opinion inspiring story of the Kurdish young
woman 'Zilan' who gave her live for freedom:...

 

December 7 - 5, 2023
<<Canada Launches Deportation Case Against Iranian Ex-Official...
and <<Iranian Translator Reshno Sentenced to Over Three Years in Prison...
and <<The Role of Mazut in Iran's Air Pollution Crisis...
and <<Iranian Authorities Put Ex-Student Activist Abdi on Trial...
and <<Rasht: Sharifeh Mohammadi arrested by security forces...
and <<Labor Activist Said Arrested While Trying to Flee Iran...
and <<People with disabilities face barriers in Iran when they go outside alone...
and <<Home Searches, Threats, Imprisonment: Baha'is in Iran Face Intensified Persecution...
and <<Alarm Raised Over Health of Political Prisoner on Hunger Strike...
and more news
 

December 4 - 1, 2023
<<Afghan Immigrants Barred from 16 Iranian Provinces, Official Says...
and <<Iranian Schools Closed Amid Air Pollution Surge...
and <<Two Kurdish Sunni Clerics Arrested in Iran...
and <<Iranian Political Prisoner's Phone Call Cut Off After He Mentioned <Torture>...
and <<A woman sentenced to imprisonment for walking her dog at park in Tehran-Iran...
and <<Shohreh Salekian, a Baha'i adherent, was sentenced to 3 years and 8 months of imprisonment...
and <<Mahabad: Security Forces Detain Zakaria Karimi, Brother of Executed Religious Prisoner Ayoub Karimi...
and <<Tehran; Reza Aghdasi, a disabled labor activist sentenced to four years and three months in prison...
and more news

December 1 - November 30, 2023
<<Iranian Activist in Turkiye Pleas for Visa to Avoid Deportation...
and <<Two More Political Prisoners Arbitrarily Executed in Iran...
and <<Hundreds of Fake Apps Floods Iranian Banking Sector...
and <<Zahra Safaei and her children are sentenced to 15 years in jail...
and <<New Committee Formed in Iran to Harass Female University Students...
and <<Iranian Authorities Destroy Homes of Ethnic Baluch in Zahedan...
and <<Father Of Executed Iranian Protester Detained for Over 100 Days...
and more news
 

November 29 - 25, 2023
<<Family of Victim of 2019 Protest Crackdown Received <No Justice, Only Suffering>...
and <<Iranian Civil Society Targeted in Massive Hacking Campaign...
and <<Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Alikordi Handed Prison Time...
and <<Former Afghan MP: Women face different forms of violence and oppression in all countries
and <<Niloufar Ghazaleh arrested with her husband in Isfahan...
and <<Iranian political prisoner Zohreh Sarv on hunger strike for 5 days...
and <<In Video After Release, Iranian Rapper Salehi Says He Didn't <Confess> or Cooperate...
and <<Jailed Baha'i Woman Denied Phone Calls from Evin Prison...
and <<Father of Executed Iranian Protester Arrested...
and <<Iranian Political Prisoner On Hunger Strike to Protest Lack of Medical Care...
and <<Iranian nurses demand their unpaid overtime fees, bonuses, and tariffs...
and more news


Cruel regime stories not for the faint of heart:
UPDATES:
December 1, 2023
'Arbitrary detentions'
and
'International action needed against escalating political executions'

and
November 29, 2023
'IRGC kill Kolbars'

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and
November 27, 2023
Marriage of girl children, a devastating end to childhood
November 16 - 14, 2023
'The mullahs' regime's 'bloodhounds' war against the Basa'is.

Please do read especially
EXTRA RED ALERTS Nov. 23, 2023!

and more here:
Click here for a 'RED ALERT' overview 'till August 2023   

2-weekly opinion by Gino d'Artali:
Dedicated to the women-led revolution
In this do read if you would the 'Jina revolution' part 15.
October 25, 2023 -
'Strengthening grief'
September 1,  2023
 August 4 - July 15, 2023
July 15 - 1, 2023
June 30 - 15, 2023

June 15 - 9, 2023

November 24, 2023
<<Atekeh Rajabi summoned to court after her prison sentence upheld...
and <<Iran’s Security Agencies Coerce Muslims to Denounce Jailed Baha'i Women...
and <<Iranian Elementary Student Dies After School Camp Accident...
and <<RSF: Journalists in Iran <Deserve to Be Celebrated, Not Imprisoned>...
and <<Iranian Authorities Criticized for <Unlawful> Detentions of Azeri Activists...
and <<Iranian Man Jailed in Germany Over Poison Attack Plot...
 

 and more menu links to news untill November 1, 2023

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.


Zilan
Jinha - Womens News Agency - 30 June 2023
<<Kurdish women's symbol of awakening and resistance: Zilan
News Center- <We don't want to die and kill but there is no other way to gain freedom,> said Zeynep Kınacı (nom de guerre: Zilan). 27 years have passed since she carried out a suicide attack in Dersim on June 30, 1996. Zilan, who wanted to be <Kurdish women's symbol of awakening>, keeps being a light to the struggle of Kurdish women from Rojava to Rojhilat today.
She had sympathy for the Kurdish struggle for freedom
Zilan was born in the Elmalı village of Malatya in 1972 as the youngest of seven siblings to a family of the Mamureki tribe. After graduating from the Haydarpaşa Medical Vocational High School, she began to work as an x-ray technician at the Şanlıurfa Birecik State Hospital. In 1990, she began to study psychology at the Inonu University in Malatya. While studying at university, she also worked as an x-ray technician at the Malatya State Hospital. While she was studying at the high school, her interest in the left and Kurdish movement was aroused. During her university education, she had sympathy for the PKK.
She continued her activities in Adana
Zilan, who married her university friend, joined the Kurdish struggle for freedom with her spouse. In 1995, she carried out activities of the struggle for freedom in Adana. In 1995, she went to Dersim. When she was in Dersim, she recognized her own personality in all aspects.
'I want to be Kurdish women's symbol of awakening'
Before Zilen carried out a suicide attack in Dersim, she wrote a letter saying, <I see myself as a candidate for a voluntary death.> Her letter is as follows:
<I consider this action as a duty. I am convinced that to overcome my weaknesses and the realization of my freedom, this action has to be carried out. I want to follow in the footsteps of our comrades, Mazlum, Kemal, Hayri, Ferhat, Bese, Beritan, Berivan and Ronahi. I want to be part of the total expression of the liberation struggle of our people. By exploding a bomb against my body I want to protest against the policies of imperialism which enslaves women and express my rage and become a symbol of resistance of Kurdish women. Under the leadership of Apo, the national liberation struggle and the Kurdish people will at last take its richly deserved place in the family of humanity. My will to live is very strong. My desire is to have a fulfilled life through strong action. The reason for my actions is my love for human beings and for life.>
Noting that the arming of women and women's conferences and congresses have been organized by the PKK, Zilan also wrote about the situation of the Kurdish women in her letter. <The often adduced reasons for retarding our personal development, such as the influence of the bourgeois and feudal ideas, the special war, and hostile influences, which usually form the starting point for sterile self-criticism are facile and inadequate. I believe that the most effective self-criticism is the practical realisation of our historical tasks. The enemy wages a total war against us. Our answer must be total resistance in the struggle for our freedom. Resistance has become the characteristic basic principle of the PKK. We have to lay claim to this historic heritage and act according to the demands of this period... This makes actions like voluntary death an inevitable necessity. Under certain conditions, it is a tactic, which will affect the enemy as much as boost the morale of our own people... At a time when the enemy is trying to achieve its aim by assassination attempts on our leader, this is the only resourceponse left. Such an action creates a siege situation for the enemy who lacks any moral grounds for their own action and is in a permanent state of confusion and crisis. It will show to friend and foe alike our total determination and preparedness to achieve our freedom, even at the price of our lives....>
'We don't want to die and kill but there is no other way to gain freedom'
Calling on the whole world and humanity in her letter, Zilan wrote, <Hear us now! Open your eyes; we are the children of a nation whose homeland has been taken from them and scattered all over the world like refugees. We now want to have the opportunity to live freely and to live humanely in our homeland. Blood, tears and cruelty should no longer be the fate of my people. We don't want to die and kill but there is no other way for us to gain our freedom.>
She carried out the suicide attack in Dersim
On June 30, 1996, Zilan blew herself up during a flag raising ceremony of the Turkish army in the center of the Dersim province.
Songs are composed for her
Her action was heard in Turkey and Kurdistan. Songs are still composed for her and many girls have been named after her. Since 2004, a festival named, <I Zilan Women's Festival> has been held in Germany and London.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/editor-s-pick/kurdish-women-s-symbol-of-awakening-and-resistance-zilan-33484

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