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. Zendagi. 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.

Preface by Gino d'Artali: It looks like Khamenei was not joking when the crackdown on journalists really took off now but that's old news really because ever since the killing of Jina Mahsa Amini it really took off where the hunt on dissent journalists has been declared fully open with no restrictions on what it takes to bring 'those criminals down'. However, rest assured, 'the criminals' will keep reporting 'till the last drop in their pens.

Iranwire - July 26, 2023
<I Consider Myself the People's Voice,> Iranian Journalist Tells Court
The second and final hearing in the high-profile trial of Iranian journalist Elahe Mohammadi took place on July 26, with the defendant denying the charges against her, her husband says. <The hearing concluded with the final defense. Elahe strongly denied all the charges, and we are hopeful that her clear defense presented in court will be duly considered,> Saeed Parsaee wrote on Twitter. In her closing arguments, Mohammadi told the judge presiding Branch 15 of Tehran Revolutionary Court: <I can proudly say I have never had any connections with foreign governments and that my loyalty lies with the people, as I consider myself their voice,> according to her husband. Mohammadi, a reporter for Hammihan newspaper, and fellow journalist Niloofar Hamedi of Shargh newspaper were arrested for reporting on the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini in September last year.
They went on trial behind closed doors in May on charges including collaborating with the <hostile> government of the United States, colluding to commit crimes against national security, and engaging in propaganda activities against the regime. Hamedi's trial ended on July 26, with a preliminary verdict expected in the next few days, her husband said. Human rights groups and media freedom watchdogs have condemned the arrest and prosecution of the two journalists, as well as the Islamic Republic's ongoing clampdown on dissent and the media. In her final statement to the court, Mohammadi condemned the mass arrest of journalists and urged the authorities to listen to the people, <especially women and journalists who express the concerns of the populace.> <Journalists who have fulfilled their professional duties should not be subjected to lengthy periods of temporary detention,> she said, adding, <Both Niloofar Hamedi and I are being tried as representatives of the noble and suffering Iranian press.> >>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/journalism-is-not-a-crime/118889-i-consider-myself-the-peoples-voice-iranian-journalist-tells-court/


The comment last year: The word rudeness is not enough for this person.

Ncri - Womens committee - in Women's news - July 25, 2023
<<Journalist Marzieh Mahmoudi fined and sentenced to internal exile
A judicial authority sentenced Journalist Marzieh Mahmoudi another time to pay a cash penalty and go to internal exile in the remote city of Torbat-e Jam in Razavi Khorasan province, northeastern Iran, just 40 kilometers from the border from Afghanistan. Journalist Marzieh Mahmoudi stated in her tweet, <Because of a renewed complaint by (mullah) Hamid Rasaii (a former MP), I was sentenced with a 24-million-Toman cash penalty and one year of exile to Torbat-e Jam.> Last year, Hamid Rasaii made highly offensive remarks about the protesters in Iran and was criticized by many. Marzieh Mahmoudi posted a comment on her page, which led to Rasaii's complaint against her. She was fined 24 million Tomans for a single tweet, a sentence later commuting to 6 million Tomans, which she paid.
Marzieh Mahmoudi is a journalist and the editor of Tejaratnews.com.
Such punishments handed down by the Iranian Judiciary seek to restrict freedom of speech even more than the existing conditions. The mullahs are free to foulmouth young freedom lovers in Iran who risk their lives for doing so. However, a journalist commenting on the mullahs’ offensive words receives a disproportionate punishment.>>
Read more here, especially also about <Political prisoner Zahra Saeedianju banned from visits>... :
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/07/25/journalist-marzieh-mahmoudi/

Iranwire - July 25, 2023
<<Trial of Iranian Journalist Hamedi Ends; Verdict Expected in Coming Days
The second and last hearing in the trial of Niloofar Hamedi, a journalist imprisoned in Iran for 10 months, was held on July 25, with a preliminary verdict expected in the next few days, her husband said. <I'm proud of my performance> as a journalist, Mohammad Hossein Ajorlo quoted his wife as telling Branch 15 of Tehran Revolutionary Court. Ajorlo said that her lawyers were granted the opportunity to present their arguments during the closed-door session. Hamedi, a reporter for Shargh newspaper, was arrested for reporting on the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini in September last year. Her first hearing on charges of collaborating with the <hostile> government of the United States, colluding to commit crimes against national security, and engaging in propaganda activities against the regime was held in May. Elahe Mohammadi, another woman journalist arrested in September for covering the events surrounding Amini’s death, went on trial at the same time. The second hearing in Mohammadi’s closed-door trial is scheduled to be held on July 26. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) <stands in solidarity with Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammdi, their families and all Iranian journalists who have been harassed, imprisoned, and persecuted for doing their work, and calls on the international community to hold Iran accountable,> CPJ Program Director Carlos Martínez de la Serna said in a statement on July 24. <Trying journalists in closed hearings is a travesty of justice and the strongest indication that there is no evidence of wrongdoing,> he added.>>
https://iranwire.com/en/journalism-is-not-a-crime/118842-trial-of-iranian-journalist-hamedi-ends-verdict-expected-in-coming-days/

 

Iranwire - July 25, 2023
<<Iranian Journalist Jaffari Jailed on False News Charges
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Iranian authorities to immediately release Seyed Mostafa Jaffari, a journalist who was re-arrested this week, and stop <arbitrarily locking up members of the press for reporting on matters of public interest.> <Journalists must be able to work without fear that they will be subject to arrest and detention for covering news about officials and lawmakers,> Sherif Mansour, CPJ's Middle East and North Africa program coordinator, said in a statement on July 24. Earlier on that day, Jaffari was arrested in the central city of Qazvin on charges filed by Branch 10 of the Revolutionary Court for allegedly publishing false news, according to media reports. Authorities previously arrested Jaffari, editor-in-chief and publisher of the local news website Titrqavin.ir, on July 12, after he published an interview with a member of parliament from Qazvin province. He was released on bail after five days. In that article, which has since been taken offline, Titrqavin.ir covered alleged hostility between the MP and Iran's tourism minister. In July 2022, Jaffari was charged with spreading false news and detained after publishing a report containing criticism of medical officials' performance in Qazvin. The journalist was sentenced to two years in prison along with a two-year ban from practicing journalism, and had not begun serving his prison term as of July 24. It was not immediately clear which case prompted his latest arrest.>>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/journalism-is-not-a-crime/118831-iranian-journalist-jaffari-jailed-on-false-news-charges/

NCRI - Womens committee - in Women's news - July 24, 2023
<<The Distorted Justice System in Iran Targets Truth-Tellers
Instead of denouncing the violence perpetrated by a mullah, the clerical regime's prosecutor announced their intention to find and punish whoever shot the footage and posted it on social media. On Saturday, July 22, a video clip went viral, depicting a mullah brutalizing a woman who had protested against his trespassing at her house in Sheshlou village, located in Gilan, northern Iran. The mullah in question was identified as Seifollah Gohari, the head of the political-ideological bureau and a Friday prayer leader in a government agency in Langrood. The Iranian official media reported that the battered woman was the mullah's sister-in-law in a bid to downplay the mullah's violence against a defenseless woman. His case was referred to the Special Court of the Clergy for examination. However, the media quoted the prosecutor of Langrood, Seyyed Hashem Mir-Hosseini, stating that they would diligently pursue, identify, and take serious action against the person(s) responsible for posting the video on social media. (The state-run Entekhab.ir, July 23, 2023) The clerical regime consistently prosecutes and punishes individuals who post videos revealing the regime's oppressive measures. They have enacted laws that criminalize the publication of material that disturbs public opinion, significantly if it exposes the truth about the mullahs' conduct. Anyone found guilty of doing so would face arrest and punishment. For instance, during the poisoning of schoolgirls throughout the country, individuals who filmed and shared evidence on social media or revealed any clues were identified and imprisoned. In this way, the clerical regime seeks to cover up the corruption plaguing the regime and fend off public outrage.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/07/24/justice-system-in-iran/
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: The by the mullah battered woman was I'd say a 'citizen-journalist' reporting about an un-acceptable violation of women's rights!

Iranwire - July 25, 2023
<<Closed-Door Trials of Iranian Journalists: A <Travesty of Justice>
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has strongly condemned the continuation of the closed-door trials of two women journalists who have been imprisoned in Iran for 10 months for reporting on the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini in September 2022. <CPJ stands in solidarity with Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammdi, their families and all Iranian journalists who have been harassed, imprisoned, and persecuted for doing their work, and calls on the international community to hold Iran accountable,> CPJ Program Director Carlos Martínez de la Serna said in a statement on July 24. <Trying journalists in closed hearings is a travesty of justice and the strongest indication that there is no evidence of wrongdoing,> he added. The second round of separate trials of Mohammadi, a reporter for Hammihan newspaper and Hamedi of Shargh newspaper are scheduled to be held on July 25 and July 26, respectively, in Branch 15 of Tehran Revolutionary Court. Their first closed-door hearings on charges of collaborating with the <hostile> government of the United States, colluding to commit crimes against national security, and engaging in propaganda activities against the regime were held in May. Their lawyers said that they were not granted the opportunity to defend the journalists in court. Human rights groups and media freedom watchdogs have condemned the arrest and prosecution of Mohammadi and Hamedi, as well as the Islamic Republic's ongoing clampdown on dissent and the media. Iran ranked as the world's worst jailer of journalists in CPJ's 2022 prison census, which documented those behind bars as of December 1. According to the New York-based media freedom watchdog, the Islamic Republic has detained at least 95 journalists during months-long nationwide protests sparked by Amini's death.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/journalism-is-not-a-crime/118826-closed-door-trials-of-iranian-journalists-a-travesty-of-justice/

Iranwire - July 24, 2023
<<An online campaign has been launched to call for the release of two women journalists who have been imprisoned in Iran for over 300 days for covering the events surrounding Mahsa Amini's death in police custody. Friends and families of Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi initiated the #Elahe_Niloofar hashtag campaign on July 23, after the husbands of Hamedi and Mohammadi announced that their second court hearings were set for July 25 and 26, respectively. Elnaz Mohammadi, a journalist herself, expressed her heartfelt longing for her imprisoned sister. <You have always been this image for me. Firm and humble. We are waiting for your day of freedom. Waiting for the day of freedom of Niloofar too, our other sister,> she tweeted. Well-known civil activist and political prisoner Arash Sadeghi also joined the online campaign by posting a picture of the two imprisoned journalists on his Twitter account. <Journalism is not just a job; it is a belief in discovering the truth. Anyone who seeks enlightenment through the light of truth will find a prominent place in society. There is no place for a journalist in prison,> he wrote. Barbad Golshiri, a renowned Iranian sculptor and artist, joined the virtual campaign and wrote: <#Elahe_Niloofer, your names will forever be associated with the progressive, beautiful, and poignant #women-life-freedom movement.> Aboozar Zaman, the son of the late singer Hossein Zaman, known for his critical stance toward the government, described Hamedi and Mohammadi as <tellers of truth> and demanded their immediate release. Social activist Mohammad Karim Asayesh praised the two journalists <not only for being women's voices in their editorial works but also for amplifying their voices in the women's movement, advocating issues such as fighting harassment and promoting women's presence in stadiums.> Mansoureh Hosseini, a TV anchor and reporter, said that Hamedi and Mohammadi <are the living proof of this government's hostility toward women, life, and freedom.> Hamedi, a reporter for Shargh newspaper, and Mohammadi of Hammihan newspaper went on trial in May on charges including collaborating with the <hostile> government of the United States, colluding to commit crimes against national security, and engaging in propaganda activities against the regime. The charges could carry the death penalty. Human rights groups and media freedom watchdogs have condemned the arrest and prosecution of Mohammadi and Hamedi, as well as the Islamic Republic's ongoing clampdown on dissent and the media. Their lawyers said that they were not granted the opportunity to defend the journalists in court.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/journalism-is-not-a-crime/118801-join-elahe_niloofar-to-support-jailed-iranian-journalists/

Iranwire - July 24, 2023 - by Jailed human rights activist Narges Mohammadi and her tweet on July 22, 2023
<<Mohammadi: <Tyrannical> Theocracy Uses Forced Hijab to Suppress Women
Jailed human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has responded to a new round of pressure by the government of the Islamic Republic to impose mandatory hijab on women, calling it a conspiracy by the country's theocracy to subjugate women. <Contrary to claims by the theocracy, covering women's hair was not meant to 'protect women's dignity' and 'control men's sexual urge'> Mohammadi said in an Instagram message on July 22. <In fact, covering our hair was to preserve tyranny and to satisfy men's dictatorial lust. Now the world is witnessing that women's 'power of refusal' has broken the 'tyrannical power' of theocracy.> <Forced hijab was a conspiracy by the tyrannical government to expand suppression, to institutionalize submission, to enforce (hidden) violence> in order to subjugate women, dominate them and remove them from the public sphere, she continued.
<The fact is that forced hijab is not only a 'women's problem;' it is the problem of the whole society; it is a problem for freedom, for deliverance from tyranny, for justice, for overthrowing injustice and oppression, for realizing peace, democracy and human rights and for getting rid of violence and discrimination. Therefore, nobody can ignore this issue, regardless of creed, ideology and beliefs. <We, the women, have achieved the historical power and position to bring about revolutionary changes...and we can have no doubt that our power to refuse and to disobey forced hijab would defeat the tyrannical power of theocracy.> Mohammadi is one of the best-known human rights activists in Iran. She has been harassed, arrested and imprisoned many times and is currently serving a 16-year prison sentence in Tehran's Evin Prison. The outspoken activist has received many awards and accolades, including the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize and the Andrei Sakharov Prize of the American Physical Society.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/118788-mohammadi-tyrannical-theocracy-uses-forced-hijab-to-suppress-women/

NCRI - Women committee - in Women's news - July 23, 2023
<<....
|Journalist Nazila Maroofian|
Nazilla Maroofian in the women's ward of Evin
Recent reports indicate that Nazilla Maroofian has been transferred from the Intelligence Ministry's detention center in Ward 209 of Evin to the women's ward of the prison. Nazila Maroofian is a young journalist from Saqqez who studied at Tehran's Allameh Tabatabaii University and used to work with Dideban-e Iran and Rouydad24 websites. She was summoned to the first branch of the Evin Courthouse on July 8th, where she was arrested after reporting in and then transferred to Evin Prison. On July 4th, security forces raided Ms. Maroofian's residence and confiscated her electronic devices. Nazila Maroofian was initially arrested on October 30, 2022, and confined to Ward 209 of Evin. She was later transferred to Qarchak Prison and released on bail of 600 million Tomans after a while. In February 2023, Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced Nazila Maroofian to two years in prison, imposed a cash fine of 15 million Tomans, and issued a five-year ban on her leaving the country. The charges against her were <propaganda against the state> and<dissemination of falsities to disturb public opinion through publishing an interview with Mahsa Amini's father.> The prison sentence for this young journalist has been suspended for five years.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/07/23/mahsa-mogouii/
 
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