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

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--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 12 May 2023

and

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
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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.

Iranwire - May 5, 2023
<<Arrested Iranian Journalist Abbasi Kept in Undisclosed Location
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urges the Iranian authorities to release journalist Hasan Abbasi immediately and unconditionally, drop any charges against him and put an end to <the practice of arbitrarily locking up members of the press for doing their jobs.> <Authorities must ensure that all journalists are able to cover newsworthy issues without fear that they will be arrested,> CPJ Program Director Carlos Martinez de la Serna said in a statement on May 4.Abbasi, a freelance investigative reporter who covers news in the southern city of Bandar Abbas, was arrested on April 30 following a complaint filed by Hormozgan province’s governor over his reporting, according to news reports, amid a crackdown on dissent and the media. It remains unclear where Abbasi is being held or whether he has been formally charged. Reports said that the complaint against Abbasi was filed in response to his coverage in the semi-official outlet AshkanNews of retired sailors who had failed to receive their pensions. Four days before his arrest, Abbasi posted a video on social media saying that he was also facing another complaint filed by the local office of the Ministry of Industry, Mines, and Trade accusing him of spreading <fake news> in his reporting on the ministry. In December 2022, Abbasi was reportedly detained for his critical coverage of alleged government corruption, was held for a week and charged with disturbing the public order and spreading false news on social media. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Iranian authorities have arrested more than 95 journalists since anti-government protests erupted across the country following the September death in police custody of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/journalism-is-not-a-crime/116223-arrested-iranian-journalist-abbasi-kept-in-undisclosed-location/

MEMO - Middle East Monitor - May 4, 2023
<<Iran, Syria rank lowest for press freedom globally
Syria and Iran's media landscapes are among the most censored in the world according to the World Press Freedom Index 2023 issued by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). RSF issued its annual report yesterday, to coincide with the World Press Freedom Day, and highlighted how Syria and Iran have maintained their position among the most dangerous countries for journalists to operate. According to the report, Syria ranked 175 out of 180 countries in 2023, with Iran ranking at 177 with only Vietnam, China and North Korea being classed as more oppressive.
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The index, which included 180 countries, indicated that the situation is very good in eight countries, good in 44 countries, problematic in 55 countries, difficult in 42 countries and very dangerous in 31 countries.
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According to the RSF report, the press is still under suffocating control in the Middle East, whether at the hands of authoritarian regimes or due to censorship imposed by armed militias, noting that press freedom is considered extremely dangerous in more than half of the region's countries.>>
Read all here:
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230504-iran-syria-rank-lowest-for-press-freedom-globally/

Note first by Gino: yes, the below reference and quote seems to have all to do with the situation of journalists in Turkey but nothing is less through as you will and hopefully continue to read 'Iranian journalists under siege' because the situation for journalists in Iran is the same as is in Turkey and last but definitely not least Jina Mahsa Amini, killed by a basij for apparently wearing her hijab wrongfully and that factually started the 'Mahsa revolution' and she, Allah has her soul, was Kurdish.
Jinha - Womens News Agency - By MEDİNE MAMEDOGLU - May 4, 2023
<<32 journalists arrested in 10 months: We can get out of the darkness with solidarity
News Center- In the last 10 months, four detention operations have been conducted against journalists and press workers. In these operations based in Amed (Diyarbakır) and Ankara, 32 journalists have been arrested on terrorism-related charges. In the last house raids conducted between April 25 and April 29, six journalists, including Dicle Fırat Journalists' Association Co-chair Dicle Muftuoglu, were arrested. Turkey will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14, 2023. As the 2023 elections approach, the arrests of journalists, lawyers and political activists are thought to be a great risk for election security. In an interview with NuJINHA, women journalists say the detention operations will not reach their goals and the struggle for truth will continue. Journalist Evrim Kepenek thinks journalists are targeted because they witness the ongoing rights violations in the country.
'The aim is to silence society'
Emphasizing that the detention operations aim to design not only journalists but also society through Kurdish journalists, Evrim Kepenek said, <Those who carry out these operations know that when journalists and lawyers are arrested in Diyarbakır, we will send a message to everyone across Turkey. One of the aims of these operations is to silence society while another aim is to prevent receiving information from the (Kurdish) region before the elections. They think that the more we weaken the Kurdish agencies, the more we will prevent the rights violations in the region from being reported. However, they forget that Kurdish journalists have not kept silent although many operations have been carried out against them for years. The Kurdish journalists always find a way to report the truth to the public in its simplest form.>
'The successors of Ape Musa will continue to work'
Evrim Kepenek says that Kurdish journalists have experiences to overcome this process with their own strength. <Silence harms Kurdish journalists but creates a more difficult situation for those who identify themselves as both journalists and democrats.> Evrim Kepenek calls on everyone to speak out against the injustice practices against journalists. Breaking the silence is, of course, essential for the arrested journalists but it is more essential for our society. Our colleagues do nothing but journalism. These bad days will pass as they passed before and the successors of Ape Musa will continue to work by holding their heads high. None of us will care what happens to those who remain silent. They (The government) try to create a whirlwind out of silence and include everyone in it. But there is a very strong whirlwind of journalism practice and tradition against that whirlwind of silence.>
'Journalists are arrested for their journalistic activities'
Journalist Sibel Yukler spoke about Turkey's new 'disinformation' law. <This law is a blow against journalism. The detention operations against Kurdish journalists are political operations. Many investigations have been launched against journalists to deactivate press outlets. The accusations against journalists are based on the statements given by secret witnesses. There is no evidence to accuse journalists. For this reason, journalists are asked, 'Why did you report?' Nowhere in the world, the report of the journalist covering the lynching of Syrians is not shown as a crime; however, the journalists arrested as part of an investigation launched in Ankara are accused of covering the lynching of Syrians. Issuing an arrest warrant against journalists on terrorism-related charges for covering the murder of the Dedeoglu family clearly reveals that these operations are political operations against journalists.>
'The operations also raise concerns about the security of the upcoming elections'
<The operations launched against journalists in the past 10 months are against the will of the Kurdish people and the upcoming elections,> Sibel Yükler said, <The detention operations against journalists, NGOs, political activists, lawyers and artists can be seen as a pre-election message to the freedom of politics, press, expression and association.>
'We can get out of the darkness with solidarity'
Sibel Yukler called on human rights organizations and journalists' organizations to immediately take action against the recent crackdown on journalists. Once, journalist Abdurrahman Gök told me: 'If fear is dominating a society and journalists surrender to it, the whole society will be plunged into darkness. Journalists are those who save society from darkness. We can get out of the darkness with solidarity.'> >>
Read more here:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/32-journalists-arrested-in-10-months-we-can-get-out-of-the-darkness-with-solidarity-33209
Note by Gino: and this is excactly why I started 'Iranian journalists under siege', out  of solidarity, also as a colleague.

Iranwire - May 4, 2023
<<Whereabouts of 74-Year-Old Journalist Unknown Two Weeks after Arrest
Detained dissident journalist Keyvan Samimi has been held at an undisclosed location, incommunicado, for 14 days, his daughter says. In a tweet on May 3, Adele Samimi said that the family has been denied information about the 74-year-old journalist's whereabouts or his condition. She expressed concern about her father's health, saying he suffers from a heart condition. The family still doesn't know which prosecution branch is handling his case, she added... <It has been 14 days since the arrest of Keyvan Samimi, and we still have no news about my father. They didn't even give him a phone to call and didn’t inform us of his location. If he hasn't been kidnapped, what do you call what’s happened to him?> she asked. Samimi was arrested in Tehran on April 20 and taken to an undisclosed location, three months after his release from prison following two years of incarceration. The journalist was scheduled to address on April 21 a virtual panel discussion called <Dialogue to Save Iran,> which was organized by a group of Iranian journalists and university professors. A former editor of the now-banned intellectual magazine Iran-e Farda (Iran Tomorrow), Samimi has been imprisoned several times, before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. He was detained in December 2020 to serve a three-year sentence and was released in January this year. In February 2022, Samimi was provisionally released from prison due to health issues but was re-incarcerated in May. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Iranian authorities have arrested at least 95 other journalists since anti-government protests erupted across the country following the death in police custody of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/journalism-is-not-a-crime/116186-whereabouts-of-74-year-old-journalist-unknown-two-weeks-after-arrest/
Note by Gino: For more information about the 'Mahsa revolution' go here:
www.cryfreedom.net/ZAA-JMA-2023-may-wk1.htm

Iranwire - May 3, 2023
<<Jailed Iranian Female Journalists Win Top UN Prize
Three imprisoned Iranian female journalists have been awarded UNESCO's Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize <for their commitment to truth and accountability.> The winners of the 2023 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize include Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, who have been incarcerated for seven months for covering the events surrounding Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody. Amini's September 2022 death sparked months-long protests across Iran demanding fundamental economic, social and political changes. The third winner is Narges Mohammadi, who has worked for years as a journalist and has long been a vocal critic of the repressive government policies and human rights violations in Iran. She is serving a long-term prison sentence. <We are committed to honoring the brave work of Iranian female journalists whose reporting led to a historical women-led revolution,> UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said. <They paid a hefty price for their commitment to report on and convey the truth. And for that, we are committed to honoring them and ensuring their voices will continue to echo worldwide until they are safe and free.> In late April, Iran's judiciary announced that Hamedi, a reporter for the Tehran-based Shargh Daily, and Mohammadi of the daily newspaper Hammihan had been indicted on charges of <collaborating with the hostile American government, colluding against national security and engaging in propaganda activity> against the regime. Mohammadi has been repeatedly detained and imprisoned by the authorities, and she is currently serving a 16-year prison sentence in Tehran's Evin Prison. In a statement read out by her husband Taghi Rahmani in a video clip posted on her Instagram account, Mohammadi reiterated that she would not participate in any court proceedings, saying she does not recognize the <authoritarian, religious and misogynistic regime> in Iran. <The violent suppression of journalists, members of the press, human rights defenders and universities, as well as the suppression of civil society and its institutions…have put freedom of expression in Iran at risk,> she added.
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According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 95 journalists were arrested since the eruption of the anti-government protests.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/journalism-is-not-a-crime/116161-jailed-iranian-female-journalists-win-top-un-prize/

The Washington Post - October 22, 2022 By
<<Reporting in Iran could get you jailed. This outlet is doing it anyway.
As protests shake up Iran, the digital news outlet Iran Wire is providing critical insight into the revolt
Last month, Aida Ghajar saw a tweet saying a girl had been beaten by Iranian police and was hospitalized. The woman had no name, and there was no confirmation it actually happened. Ghajar, a reporter for the scrappy digital news outlet IranWire, reached out along with her editor to the outlet’s wide network of sources, and one was able to get into the hospital and confirm the news. That source also sent back the phone number of the girl’s brother. When Ghajar got on the phone with him, he implored them to tell his sister’s story. He also provided her name: Mahsa Amini.
Ghajar's Persian language story went on IranWire Sept. 14. It was translated into English the next day. On Sept. 16, a journalist from a separate news organization broke the story that Amini had died.
<We were the first to mention the name of Mahsa,> Ghajar said in an interview. <And now, everywhere, every country they know about Mahsa.> >>
Source:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/22/iran-wire-mahsa-amini-protest/

First a note by Gino:
And from now on and when I wite an opinion I'll simple name myself Gino as I do in daily life because I dropped out of school aged 13 and started working as a labourer just so my mother, God has her soul, and I could make ends meet. Today, as a freelance journalist, I can hardly make ends meet but the writing must be done. Period!

Jinha - Womens News Center - May 1, 2023
<<Message from detained journalists: Defend journalism
News Center- Just after the detention operation against more than 100 people as part of an investigation launched in Amed (Diyarbakır), another operation was launched against opposition figures on April 29, 2023 as part of an investigation launched in Ankara. 15 people, who were taken into custody in several cities on April 29, were brought to Ankara. Dicle Fırat Journalists' Association Co-chair Dicle Muftuoglu, Mesopotamia Agency (MA) editor Sedat Yılmaz and his wife Selma Yılmaz were detained in Amed while Sedat Yılmaz's sister Filiz Yılmaz were detained in Istanbul. The journalists sent a message calling for the defense of journalism through their lawyers.
'We call for the defense of journalism'
<As the continuation of a tradition of more than 30 years, there is an attempt to silence us. Just two days ago, five journalists were arrested in an operation launched in Diyarbakır. Despite those who have been trying to criminalize us with similar operations for years, our search for the truth continues. No obstacle can darken the truth. We call on all my colleagues to defend journalism against such operations,> said Dicle Muftuoglu in her message.
'Nothing can silence our pen'
The message of Sedat Yılmaz, who calls for solidarity, is as follows:
<Dear colleagues and friends, I am very strong and cheerful. Nothing can make us bow down to the mafia, to the drug lords and silence our pen. What I expect from you is to strengthen the solidarity. I saw my colleague Dicle Muftuoglu, she sent her greeting to you. Me, my wife, my sister are in custody. We had to leave our 13-year-old daughter to our relatives in Diyarbakır. Greetings and love.> >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/message-from-detained-journalists-defend-journalism-33186?page=1
Note from Gino: Fact is 40 journalists are in jail awaiting trial now. It's very hard for them to get permission for a lawyer to defend them.
But always rememer the title of this new topic of cryfreedom.net: <Iranian (and journalists everywhere) under siege... but 'When the pen becomes a sword' the ink will never dry'.

NCRI - Women Committee - in Women's news - 28 April, 2023
<<Iranian Judiciary Indicts Detained Journalists and Summons Others
Recently, the Iranian Judiciary has taken drastic measures against journalists and citizens. Two detained journalists have been indicted, while other journalists, teachers, and citizens have been summoned for questioning. This wave of arrests and torture has been ongoing. Even those previously released under the guise of <amnesty> in February are now being summoned and imprisoned again. The arrest and detention of journalists and activists in Iran is a grave violation of human rights and freedom of expression. The international community must condemn these actions and pressure the Iranian regime to respect the fundamental rights of its citizens.
Indictments for two detained journalists, Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi
According to the Judiciary spokesperson, Massoud Setayeshi, the Judiciary has indicted two detained journalists, Elaheh Mohammadi, and Niloufar Hamedi. Setayeshi stated that the indictments were issued on April 17, 2023, and their case has been referred to Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran. Setayeshi elaborated on the charges against the two detained journalists, accusing them of <collaborating with hostile governments, participating in a collusion against national security, and engaging in propaganda against the state.> Niloufar Hamedi, a photojournalist for Shargh newspaper, took and published the first photo of Mahsa Amini in a coma at the hospital. Elaheh Mohammadi, a journalist for Ham-Mihan newspaper, published a report on Mahsa's funeral and an interview with her father. Niloufar Hamedi was arrested by security forces at her home on September 22, 2022, and was transferred to Evin prison. In late December 2022, she was transferred to Qarchak prison in Varamin.
Elaheh Mohammadi was arrested by security forces in Tehran on September 23, 2022, and was transferred to Qarchak prison in Varamin.
Three journalists summoned for the final defense
Saeedeh Shafiei, Mehrnoush Zarei Hanzaki, and Nasim Sultan Beigi have been summoned to present their final defense before the Evin Court in Tehran. They are all journalists. According to separate notifications sent to these journalists on April 4, 2023, they have been given a five-day deadline to appear at the Evin Court for their final defense. They have been accused of <propaganda against the state.> >>
Read all about the latter named, info about the others I quoted above:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/04/28/detained-journalists-indicted/

Preface to the below quoted and referred to article by Gino d'Artali: Please do not not forget that Jina Masha Amini, Allah has her soul, was a young Kurdish-Iranian woman killed by a basij for apparently wearing her jijab wrongfully.
Jinha - Womens News agency - 28 April, 2023
<<NuJINHA awarded Mazlum Bagok Journalism and Isam Abdullah Press Martyrs Prize
Qamishlo- The Mazlum Bagok and Isam Abdullah Press Martyrs Prize is an annual journalism awards, given by the Union of Free Media (Kurdish: Yekitiya Ragihandina Azad-YRA) to mark the Kurdish Journalism Day celebrated every year on April 22. An award ceremony was held on April 27, 2023 at the Merîland Hall in Qamishlo, northeastern Syria. The photographs of martyrs of the free press were hung in the hall and the families of Martyrs Mazlûm Bagok and İsam Abdullah, the members of the Movement for a Democratic Society (Kurdish: Tevgera Civaka Demokratîk, TEV-DEM), writers, journalists attended the ceremony.
'We will always be indebted'
After a minute's silence for the fighters, who lost their lives while fighting for freedom, YRA Co-chair Malva Eli made a speech. <I wish a happy Kurdish Journalism Day to all journalists. This day is celebrated thanks to the great efforts of journalists, who sacrificed their lives for reporting the truth. We will always be indebted to them.> >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/nujinha-awarded-mazlum-bagok-journalism-and-isam-abdullah-press-martyrs-prize-33182

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