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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  babout the 21th. century feminist revolution as well especially the Zan, Zendegi, Azadi uprising in Iran and the and the uprisings of our sisters in other parts of the Middle-east. This online magazine that started December 2019 is 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
Latest news 2024: Jan wk 1-2 --
and the latest news about the 'Women Live Freedom' Revolution per month in 2023
Dec wk 5 part 2 -- Dec wk 5 -- Dec week 4-3 -- Dec wk3 -- Dec 17 - 10 -- Dec week 2 and 1 -- click here for a menu overview November - Januari 2023


Tribute to KIAN PIRFALA, 9 years old and victim of the Islamic Republic's savagery 10 years ago. Update December 25, 2023

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

'THE NO-HIJABIS

Updated December 28, 2023

'BIOLOGICAL
TERROR ATTACKS
AGAINST SCHOOLGIRLS'

Updated October 10, 2023

'IRANIAN JOURNALISTS
UNDER SIEGE'

Updated December 22, 2023

'BLINDING
AS A WEAPON'

Updated December 15, 2023

'THE HANGING SPREE'

Updated November 30, 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 January 2, 2024)

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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...>
December 12, 2023 - <<EU Remembers Mahsa Amini at Sakharov Prize Awarding Ceremony...>

December 23, 2023 - <<Saleh Nikbakht Interrogated at Khomeini Airport and the Sakharov Prize confiscated by Iranian security forces...>
 

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
Part 16: December 28 - 16, 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 22 - 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
Updates:
Dec 19 - 8, 2023
*The revolutionary court is the slaughterhouse of the youth of Iran, and I will not set foot in this slaughterhouse, Mohammadi says...* and
*I will make my voice louder for the world to hear,> says Mohammadi...*

Previous news: Nov 16 - Oct 31
*Victory is not easy, but it is certain*
'Mother of a long and free Iran'

Preface by Gino d'Artali and news untill October 31, 2023

 

 





JINA AMINI'S VOICE IS ALSO HEARD
And do read the incredible update!

despite the mullahs' regime to force it down!
And her mother speaks out loud and clear too!


 





MARJAM AKBARI MONFARED

Dec 30, 2023: Not bowing for the mullahs' regime she says: "Finally, one day, I will sing the song of victory from the summit of the mountain, like the sun. Tomorrow belongs to us"
 

 

 

January 2, 2024 - December 29, 2023
"
One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world."...
and  Narges Mansouri, in Evin prison, has been banned from family visits. ...
and <<Toomaj Salehi, the protesting rapper, Faces Imprisonment and Additional Penalties...
and <<Unjust Verdicts: Four Bahai Women Sentenced to 15 Years in Jail...
and <<Oshnavieh; Five Kurdish citizens arrested and taken to prison to serve their prison sentences...
and <<Raisi sets new record: Four women executed in Iran over three days...
and <<Arzhang Mortazawi, the Kharazmi University student, is sentenced to detention and additional punishment...
and more news
 

Please do read the following 5 articles even when they have a very alarming content - click on the underlined topics -
Updates
December week 4
Dec. 27, 2023:
<<The Unyielding Spirit: Women's Bravery in 2009 Protests in Iran...
and

....
Dec 20, '23:
<<Heinous execution of Samira Sabzian, a victim of child marriage under the clerical regime...
and
Dec 20, '23: <<Iranian Security Forces Sharpen Blades as Discontent Rises...
and
Dec. 21, '23:
Iranian-refugees-turkye...
---
'Yalda, immortal daughter of Iran'
and
'Human Rights in Iran - a beacon of hope'...

Click here for previous articles
 

December 29 - 27, 2023
<<Plane ordered to remove Jina Mahsa Amini's image to land in Egypt...
and <<Iranian political prisoner Narges Mansouri starts hunger strike...
and <<Tehran Couple, Asadollah Fakhimi and Houri Khanpour, Handed Eight-Year Prison Sentence...
and <<Political Prisoners Challenge Judge's Visit at Evin Prison...
and <<Iranian political prisoner Fatemeh Sepehri's health deteriorating...
and <<Kurdish man lost his life under the torture of security forces in Iran...
and <<Shiraz; Sajjad Zarei sentenced to 10 years and 6 months in prison...

December 27 - 22, 2023
What Zeyneb Xoresan says about '2023 was the year of protecting values' and 'Women have paid the heaviest price'
and <<Iranian authorities seal 50 shops, restaurants, cafes in Qom...
and <<Hijab monitors and plainclothes agents search passengers' personal belongings...
and <<Zahedan: Naser Ahmadzahi sentenced to imprisonment and flogging...
and <<Kurdish Religious Prisoner Davud Abdullahi Transferred to Solitary Confinement Amidst Imminent Threat of Execution...
and <<Mahdiyeh Hospital nurses hold protests against poor wages...
and <<Political prisoner Shakila Monfared sentenced to 15 months in prison...
and <<The Death Sentence for a Kurdish <Yarsan> adherent has been confirmed by the Supreme Court in Iran...
and <<Varisha Moradi languishes in Evin Prison without standing trial...
and <<Journalist Sara Massoumi sentenced to 6 months for a tweet...
and more news

 


Cruel regime stories not for the faint of heart:
UPDATE:
December 26, 2023
After long consideration I've decided to put the topics 'Alarming articles' together with 'Red Alert' and make it a combination of on the one hand inspiring stories of brave dissent but still with the flip-side of the coin being the heinous oppression of the mullahs' regime.
Click here for previous articles from the Red Alert section

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

December 22 - 20, 2023
<<Three Baloch citizens arrested in Zahedan by Iranian security forces...
and <<Kurdish activist Verishe Moradi held in pre-trial detention in Iran for more than 4 months...
and <<Call on Iranian authorities to immediately drop all charges against Maryam Moghadam...
and <<Prominente Kurdish <Mamosta> sentenced to imprisonment in PiranShahar...
and <<Urgent Concerns Regarding the Deteriorating Health of Political Prisoner Fateme Sepehari in Mashhad Central Prison...
and <<Uncertain Fate of Two Young Kurdish Refugees Following Boat Capsizing in the English Channel...
and <<Iranian Police Officers Arrested in Protester Shooting Case...
and ""Veiled in tears....
and more news

and more news
which will also bring you throughout December 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.


Plane depicting Jina
Jinha - Womens News Agency 28 Dec 2023
<<Plane ordered to remove Jina Mahsa Amini's image to land in Egypt
News Center- A plane was not allowed to land in Egypt due to the image of Jina Mahsa Amini, who was killed in Iran on September 16, 2022.
Enrique Pineyro, an Argentine-Italian actor, director and social activist, wrote on X that he had to remove the image of Jina Mahsa Amini from his private Boeing 787 airplane to be allowed to land in Egypt and deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. <To fly a humanitarian cargo to El Arish for Gaza, the Egyptian government would not allow the livery with the photo of Mahsa Amini and the legend: No woman should be killed for not covering her head. No man should be hanged for saying this. We had to remove it to land there,> his post said. >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/plane-ordered-to-remove-jina-mahsa-amini-s-image-to-land-in-egypt-34370

Shervin Hajipour - Baraye ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHpGpcADbI


Soroode Zendegi

Soroode Zendegi (Life's Anthem) - With English Translation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr3d5PgWqRU



Narges Mansouri
Jinha - Womens News Agency 29 Dec 2023
<<Iranian political prisoner Narges Mansouri starts hunger strike
News Center- Iranian political prisoner Narges Mansouri has started a hunger strike in Evin prison to protest an Iranian court's decision to issue an order to sell her mother's property, her lawyer, Mohammad Moghimi, announced on X. Narges Mansouri , a member of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company Workers' Union and one of 14 activists who signed the <Statement of 14,> <calling for the resignation of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, was arrested amid a wave of arrests of labor and political activists in Iran in May 2022.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/iranian-political-prisoner-narges-mansouri-starts-hunger-strike-34377


Asadollah Fakhimi - Houri Khanpour
NCRI - Womens committee - 29 Dec 2023 - in Women's News
<<Tehran Couple, Asadollah Fakhimi and Houri Khanpour, Handed Eight-Year Prison Sentence
Asadollah Fakhimi and his wife Houri Khanpour, residents of Tehran, have been collectively sentenced to eight years in prison by the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Asadullah Fakhimi and Houri Khanpour were recently given prison terms of 5 and 3 years, respectively, by the 29th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Seyyed Ali Mazloum. The charges against the couple include <propaganda against the government> and <gathering and collusion.> It is worth noting that the residence of this couple underwent a search by security forces on July 11 of this year, resulting in the confiscation of personal belongings, including laptops and mobile phones. Subsequently, the individuals were summoned to court. The first hearing on the charges against Asadullah Fakhimi and Houri Khanpour took place in August, followed by a second hearing on November 5 of this year. Each member of the couple was granted temporary release on bail until the conclusion of the proceedings>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2023/12/tehran-couple-asadollah-fakhimi-and-houri-khanpour-handed-eight-year-prison-sentence

NCRI - Womens committee - 28 Dec 2023 - in Women's News
<<Political Prisoners Challenge Judge's Visit at Evin Prison
Political prisoners held in the women's ward of Evin Prison expressed anger during the visit of Judge Iman Afshari on December 27, 2023. Many of these detainees had been sentenced by Judge Afshari, leading to heightened tensions during his presence. The authorities at Evin Prison responded to the protests by punishing the demonstrators. Those who raised their voices against Judge Afshari were either restricted from making phone calls or faced threats of isolation as a repercussion for their protest. The women who protested Afshari's visit voiced their frustration over their indefinite imprisonment without a clear resolution to their cases. Notable among the dissenters were Forough Taghipour, Arghavan Fallahi, and Shiva Esmaili.
The protests caused tensions to escalate, prompting female guards to intervene and threaten physical consequences for the prisoners. The atmosphere within the ward remains charged due to these confrontations.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/12/28/political-prisoners-challenge/


Fatemeh Sepehri's
Jinha - Womens News Agency 28 Dec 2023
<<Iranian political prisoner Fatemeh Sepehri's health deteriorating
News Center- Iranian political activist Fatemeh Sepehri, who has been held in Mashhad's Central Prison, is denied necessary medical treatment despite experiencing severe physical and mental distress. On Wednesday, her brother, Asghar Sepehri, wrote on X that his sister's heart rate was high and she could barely spoke. <My sister's health condition is alarming. Due to psychological pressure from the prison authorities, her heart rate is consistently high. The prison healthcare only provides injections and sleeping drugs,> said his post. Fatemeh Sepehri's mother posted a video saying that the Iranian regime sent back her daughter to the prison after undergoing an open-heart surgery to prevent her treatment and that if something happens to her daughter, Ali Khamenei will be responsible. Fatemeh Sepehri is a political and women's rights activist. She is one of the signatories of the Statement of 14 Political Activists during the 2017-2018 Iranian protests requesting the resignation of Ali Khamenei from his post as the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic and later the abolition of Islamic republic and establishment of a democratic secular government. She was detained in Mashhad on August 1, 2021 during a peaceful demonstration demanding the release of political prisoners. She was then released. She was arrested in a house raid on September 21, 2022. In February 21, she was sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Court of Appeal of Mashhad on charges of <propaganda activities against the Islamic republic>, <cooperation with hostile governments>, <insulting the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei>, and <gathering and conspiring against national security>. In September 2023, she was temporary released from prison. She underwent her heart surgery on October 1 and returned to prison on October 7, 2023.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/iranian-political-prisoner-fatemeh-sepehri-s-health-deteriorating-34369


Mansour Salamat
Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 28 Dec 2023
<<Kurdish man lost his life under the torture of security forces in Iran
Mansour Salamat, a resident of Urmia whose identity has been confirmed, lost his life in detention, tortured physically and psychologically in one of the security detention centers of Urmia. During the year of 2023, at least 8 Kurdish prisoners have been killed under torture. According to a reports obtained by the Hengaw organization for Human Rights, on Wednesday the 27th of December 2023, Mansour Salamat, from the village of <Pasan> in the Targavar region of Urmia, lost his life under torture in a detention center called <Nine Steps> in Islamic republic of Iran. Sources close to the victim's family state that Mansour Salamat was detained by security forces on charges of <possession of hunting weapons.> He suffered a heart attack and lost his life under pressure and torture. Security forces informed Mansour Salamat's family last night through a phone call that their son had suffered a stroke due to extreme stress and pressure, leading to his death. The body of Mansour Salamat will be handed over to the family today, Thursday, December 28th, and will be laid to rest in his hometown. According to statistics recorded by the Hengaw organization for Human Rights, since the beginning of 2023, at least 11 prisoners in the prisons and detention centers of the Islamic Republic of Iran have been tortured, with 8 of them being Kurdish prisoners.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2023/12/kurdish-man-lost-his-life-under-the-torture-of-security-forces-in-iran

Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 27 Dec 2023
<<Shiraz; Sajjad Zarei sentenced to 10 years and 6 months in prison
Sajjad Zare, a former political prisoner and political activist from Shiraz, who was arrested last year during the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi movement, was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months in prison and two years of exile to a city in Yazd province by the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
According to the report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, during the past few days, Sajjad Zare, a political activist from Shiraz, was sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison for charges of assembly and collusion and 3 years for insulting the Iranian supreme leader by the 1st branch of the Shiraz’s Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court. He has been sentenced to two years of exile in one of the cities of Yazd province.
This political activist was arrested on Saturday, September 16, 2023, with the invasion of Shiraz Intelligence Department forces to his home and was transferred to the detention center of this city known as No. 100 after a while, he was transferred to Adel Abad prison. Sajjad Zare was arrested by the security forces on Monday, 14 November 2022, during the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi movement and was released after 86 days of detention following the issuance of an <amnesty> circular. It should be mentioned that Sajjad Zare was previously sentenced to prison by the judicial system and was released from prison in October 2021 after completing his sentence.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2023/12/shiraz-sajjad-zarei-sentenced-to-10-years-and-6-months-in-prison

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