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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'THE JINA REVOLUTION'


France 24 by News Wires - September 16, 2023
<<Clampdown and grief as Iranians mark first anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death.
Iranians at home and abroad marked the first anniversary Saturday of the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, with activists speaking of a renewed crackdown to prevent any resurgence of the protests which rocked the country last year....>>
Note by Gino d'Artali: This article gives a kind of overview of what happened in Iran after Jina Amini was killed with extra emphasis on for example how the family of Jina Amini was brutalized and even shortly arrested and jailed.:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230916-clampdown-and-grief-as-iranians-remember-mahsa-amini



NCRI - Womens committee - September 15, 2023 - in Articles, Women's News
<<Iranian Women Leading the Nationwide Struggle to Overthrow the Regime...>>
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/09/15/iranian-women-leading/
Note by Gino d'Artali: Also this article gives a kind of overview of what happened in Iran after Jina Amini was killed. It's an excellent article but for me too long to be able to quote from so yes, do read it.

FREEDOM
Iroon - September 11, 2023 - by Baria Alamuddin
<< The Mahsa Amini Revolution
Arab News: A year after the killing of Mahsa Amini triggered a nationwide mass uprising, Iran's leaders are so terrified by the prospect of catching a glimpse of a woman’s hair that they have deployed mass surveillance to identify unveiled women in public spaces, and increased spying on social media activity. The <morality police,> whose immoral, abusive behavior triggered the mass protests in the first place, have meanwhile been unleashed back on the streets. Former President Mohammad Khatami warned that the reemergence of these widely hated forces was self destructive for the Islamic Republic and would trigger social implosion. However, as the ubiquitous <Woman. Life. Freedom> slogan emphasized, rejection of the hijab was always merely a symbol of a more profound desire among Iranian women for the freedom to live fulfilling, equal and productive lives. While the authorities obsess over women's hair, Iranians have plentiful additional reasons to feel frustration: inflation exceeds 50 percent, with an estimated 60 percent of people below the poverty line, a high proportion of whom subsist on less than $2 a day; unemployment in the 15-24 age bracket is estimated at a crippling 77 percent; professionals are unsurprisingly fleeing abroad, with 6,000 doctors thought to have departed in 2023 alone. Legislation being discussed by Iran's parliament, imposing additional new punishments on uncovered women, has been described by UN experts as <gender apartheid.> The UN added that the authorities were <governing through systemic discrimination, with the intention of suppressing women and girls into total submission.> In recent days the authorities arrested numerous female activists and stepped up a campaign of intimidation, seeking to neutralize the momentum toward civil disobedience around the anniversary of Amini's killing. Businesses have been closed down and staff arrested merely for serving an uncovered female customer. Hospitals are banned from providing aid to unveiled women. Pro-regime online channels such as Bisimchi Media exist purely to spy on uncovered women and incite their arrest. Activist Leila Ziafar declared on social media: <We have given blood for shedding the hijab, our chains. We will never retreat from the path we have traversed,> and posted a photo of herself without a headscarf. Hours later Bisimchi Media hailed Leila's arrest, and even posted a video of her home being raided - a strong indication that it is directly connected with the security services. Women and girls who sacrificed everything in the cause of freedom, such as Nika Shakarami and Sarina Esmaeilzadeh, are an inspiring illustration that the costs of the struggle for a brighter future are high, but are infinitely worth paying. Letters smuggled out of prisons tell a story of systematic rape, torture and daily humiliation of hundreds of women and girls. The confirmed uprising death toll of at least 537 included 68 children, and many protesters were executed. Photos and videos continue to circulate showing dozens of women deliberately shot in the eyes for daring to come out on the streets. The New York Times confirmed that 500 people with similar injuries sought treatment at just three hospitals in Tehran between September and November 2022, illustrating the systematic nature of the crackdown. In recent days, pop singer Mehdi Yarrahi was arrested for releasing a song calling on women to remove their hijabs. He nevertheless urged people to go ahead with commemorating the anniversary of Amini's death, and pledged to be a <nightmare> for those prosecuting him. Yarrahi is one of dozens of musicians, sports personalities and public figures who have been persecuted for taking a principled stand, at the risk of their careers, and indeed their lives; celebrity chef Mehrshad Shahidi was beaten to death by Revolutionary Guard thugs the day before his 20th birthday. Despite all this, courageous women still determinedly walk the streets uncovered. One recounted how she often felt fearful on her daily unveiled commute to work, but fights her fear by <reciting the names of other brave women who have stood tall in the face of oppression: Sepideh Gholian, Nika Shakarami, Sarina Esmaeilzadeh...> Meanwhile US officials have naively been expressing optimism at moves to dial back tensions with Iran following behind-the-scenes talks. But these supposed achievements are rooted in deeply flawed thinking. They highlight the reduction in attacks by Iraq-based paramilitaries against US targets, while ignoring that these forces have massively increased in size and have become a much more chronic threat to regional security. Iran has slowed down but not stopped enriching uranium to 60 percent, only a step away from the 90 percent required for nuclear weapons. Tehran has released into house arrest a number of detained US citizens in exchange for $6 billion in frozen oil revenues. But such transactions are inevitably followed by an unseemly rush to abduct other poor souls, while unfrozen funds find their way to militants and terrorists.
For schoolgirls too young to have any concept of broader geopolitical developments, the 2022 events created unforgettable formative memories, and ignited a resolute determination to one day play their part in transforming their nation's future. The 2022 uprising was also a revolution for patriarchal ways of seeing the world: after everything that occurred, men could no longer regard women as weaker or inferior, and women recall the prominent role male protesters played in protecting women under threat of arrest or attack. This was also an ethnic uprising that often raged most fiercely in Kurdish, Baloch, Azeri and Arab regions. Amini’s family called her by her Kurdish name, Jina, which means <life.> Kurdish names are illegal in Iran, hence the Persian name, Mahsa. The pressures and challenges facing women and all Iranians have only increased over the past year. When you speak to Iranians, even those previously sympathetic to the regime, everybody knows that change is coming, that the status quo is unsustainable. It is simply a question of when and how. Over the past year, Iran's women savored the tiniest taste of freedom, and acquired a glimpse of the immense power they are capable of wielding when they determinedly act together in support of change. Women and girls who sacrificed everything in the cause of freedom, such as Nika Shakarami and Sarina Esmaeilzadeh, are an inspiring illustration that the costs of the struggle for a brighter future are high, but are infinitely worth paying, so that daughters and granddaughters can relish the rights, freedoms and opportunities that were withheld from the post-1979 generations. The strong minded, highly educated, courageous and forward-looking women of Iran represent this country's glorious future. Today they are simply waiting for the rest of this proud nation to catch up with them.
• Baria Alamuddin is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster in the Middle East and the UK. She is editor of the Media Services Syndicate and has interviewed numerous heads of state.>>
Source:
https://iroon.com/irtn/cartoon/9180/mahsa-amini-revolution-anniversary/

Iroon | The Washington Post: By Yalda Moaier - September 15, 2023
<<Life after prison: Iranian women who stood up for Mahsa Amini
Yalda Moaiery is an Iranian photojournalist.
For about three months last fall, I lived in Qarchak Prison, southeast of Tehran, with about a thousand other women who had been arrested during the Mahsa uprising - the protests that followed the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, the young woman who had been picked up for allegedly wearing an improper hijab. Many of my fellow prisoners had been beaten during their arrests, many were subjected to mental and emotional abuse in security detention centers, and some were sexually assaulted. In my particular cage, designed to hold 50 people, about 160 of us crowded close - breathing bad air, sleeping on the floor, getting by on too little food and trying to share toilets and bathrooms. Many women had to shave their hair to get rid of lice. Court proceedings were slow and often unjust; some of my fellow prisoners were given 20-year sentences. Many suffered panic attacks or attempted suicide. Eventually, the leader of the Islamic republic released all of us with amnesty. Yet many are still dealing with the psychological aftereffects and have not been able to return to their former lives. As a small tribute to my former cellmates - my fighting sisters - and in the hope that their suffering will be remembered, I photographed released prisoners at the places where they were arrested.
Mahdis Nazari
Amir Sam Golshani and Reihaneh Tavana
Shabnam Masoodi
Shaghayegh Khademi
Zeinab Mohammadi
Reihane Saeedi
Negar Tavoosi
Parvaneh Ojaghi
Fazeleh and Masoumeh Khorasani
Marzieh Yousef Zadeh
>>
Source:
https://iroon.com/irtn/link/56108/life-after-prison-iranian-women-who-stood-up-for-mahsa-amini/

Iroon - September 15, 2023
<<Michael Bonner: Only Iranians can reform Iran
The Hub:
The first anniversary of the murder of Mahsa Amini is here. A year ago on September 15, Mahsa was arrested by the morality police for wearing her hijab improperly, and then savagely beaten. She died in hospital shortly thereafter, and the Iranian public reacted furiously. Some observers claimed to foresee the imminent end of the Islamic Republic and have been speaking of a second Iranian revolution ever since. Others were and remain more circumspect, noting that the regime has faced down protests and revolts before and may do so again. A year later, the Islamic Republic still stands and is showing no signs of collapsing. The Islamic Republic's refusal to collapse seems to vitiate the late 20th-century <End of History> expectation that all countries would soon adopt a politics of personal freedom and secularism. In the heady days of the 1990s, amidst the collapse of the Soviet Union and the liberation of Eastern Europe, it was easy to believe that the development of liberal democracy was inevitable everywhere. This belief is asserted somewhat less now in the aftermath of the War on Terror and the failure of regime change to usher in liberal democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan. Similarly, the liberal-minded Arab Spring movements of the 2010s fizzled out, to the benefit of Islamists and strongmen. And yet, the theory of inevitable liberal democracy still has considerable inertia to it. It resurfaces with every new wave of mass protest within Iran. There is good reason for this. The rule of clerics is extremely unpopular-more so than ever before after the murder of Mahsa Amini and the ensuing protests in late 2022. A recent survey conducted by The Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran (GAMAAN) posed the simple question <Islamic Republic: yes or no?>, and the result was that 81 percent responded <no>, a mere 15 percent said <yes>, and only 4 percent were unsure.>>
Source:
https://iroon.com/irtn/link/56107/michael-bonner-only-iranians-can-reform-iran/

Iroon - September 15, 2023
<<How tech has influenced a year of demonstrations in Iran
MarketPlace:
Saturday marks one year since the death of Mahsa Amini, the young woman who was arrested by the Islamic Republic of Iran's <morality police> for allegedly violating its strict dress code for women. She died in custody.
Protests that started at Amini's funeral quickly spread across the country.
Iranians have depended on messaging apps and social media to share information and try to stay safe. But staying connected hasn't been easy, according to Shaghayegh Norouzi and Reza Ghazinouri with the U.S.-based nonprofit United for Iran. Marketplace's Lily Jamali spoke with Norouzi and Ghazinouri about the online resources United for Iran has developed and the technology used by activists across the country. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Reza Ghazinouri: The main way that [the] use of technology among activists and I'd say also the general population has changed is the number of circumvention tools everyone now have to have on their phone because in response to the massive protests last year, the regime pretty much reduced the quality of the internet. And we now see that their vision of isolating Iran's internet from the world has been materialized to a higher degree. It's a challenge for people to connect to the internet. And sometimes they have to test tens of different apps to find one that works.>>
Source:
https://iroon.com/irtn/link/56106/how-tech-has-influenced-a-year-of-demonstrations-in-iran/

PEN America | The freedom to write - September 14, 2023
<<ON ANNIVERSARY OF MAHSA AMINI’S DEATH, PEN AMERICA CALLS FOR AN END TO THE SUPPRESSION OF FREE THOUGHT AND EXPRESSION IN IRAN
(NEW YORK) Saturday marks the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died while in police custody following her arrest by Iran's morality police for alleged improper wearing of the hijab. PEN America calls upon the Iranian government to cease its continued persecution of dissident voices and to release artists, writers, and creatives sentenced to prison for expressing their opinions through their creative work. <In the year since Amini's death, the Iranian government has engaged in a broad-based crackdown against writers and artists who dare to criticize them, and even taken to preemptively detaining them and handing down lengthy jail sentences on spurious charges,> said Karin Deutsch Karlekar, PEN America's director of Writers at Risk. <Writers and artists, alongside thousands of Iranians, have been brutalized by a government whose only goal is to hold onto power and who must be held to account for these crimes and their stifling of free expression and human rights.> Amini's death sparked massive protests across Iran, with citizens calling for a repeal of the hijab law and demands for basic human rights. International awareness grew as people around the world started posting videos and photos of themselves on social media cutting off locks of hair in a show of solidarity with Iranian women and in honor of Amini. The force of the protests presented one of the most significant challenges to the government since the 1979 revolution. As a result, thousands of Iranians were arrested during and after the demonstrations, including cultural figures targeted for discussing, making, or supporting art about Amini's death and its aftermath. In May, the BBC Persian service released leaked Iranian government documents that revealed the existence of a secret committee, chaired by Iran's Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, assigned to investigate more than 140 artists, singers, and media personalities in relation to the demonstrations. <Clearly, the Iranian government feels threatened by the power of writers and artists to uplift marginalized voices, build collective identity, and even spark revolution,> said Julie Trébault, director of PEN America's Artists at Risk Connection (ARC). <As a result, it employs the same tactics commonly used to silence journalists and other human rights defenders, resorting to intimidation, imprisonment, loss of livelihood, and even threats to life. This is straight out of the autocrat's playbook. The Iranian government recognizes the pivotal role socially engaged writers and artists play as de facto human rights defenders, regardless of whether they identify themselves as such.> PEN America's 2022 Freedom To Write Index, reported the jailing in Iran of at least 57 writers for their work, making it the second-greatest jailer of writers in the world, after China. Sixteen of the jailed writers were women.> Recent examples of Iran's severe treatment of socially-engaged writers and artists include the extension of PEN/Barbey 2023 Freedom to Write honoree Narges Mohammadi's unjust sentence for writing letters detailing sexual abuse of women held in Iran's prisons and her beating by prison guards on September 11; the solitary confinement of poet Keyvan Mohtadi for reciting a poem to support other political prisoners; a six-year sentence for rapper Toomaj Salehi on charges of <corruption on Earth> for rap lyrics criticizing the government; the detention of Atena Farghadani for political cartoons posted on her Instagram account, and the arrest of Mehdi Yarrahi following the release of the song <Roosarito> which encourages Iranian women to remove their obligatory headscarf. PEN America urges the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran, currently collecting information on rights abuses committed since the protests began in 2022, to include the investigation of the repression of writers and artists as grave threats to freedom of expression and human rights. >>
Read more here (also in Farsi):
https://pen.org/press-release/on-the-anniversary-of-mahsa-amini-death/

The Guardian | Reuters - September 15, 2023
<<US and UK issue sanctions on Iran one year on from Mahsa Amini's death
Multiple rounds of sanctions mark anniversary of 22-year-old's death in custody of Iran’s 'morality police'
The US and Britain on Friday imposed sanctions on Iran on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the death of a Kurdish Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, while in the custody of Iran's <morality police>, which sparked months of anti-government protests that faced often violent crackdown.
....
The US and Britain, along with the EU, have announced multiple rounds of sanctions against Iran, citing the widespread and often violent crackdown on protests after the death of Amini. <Mahsa's tragic and senseless death in the custody of Iran's so-called 'morality police' sparked demonstrations across Iran that were met with unspeakable violence, mass arrests, systemic internet disruptions and censorship by the Iranian regime,> the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said in a statement. <We will continue to take appropriate action, alongside our international partners, to hold accountable those who suppress Iranians' exercise of human rights,> he said, adding that Canada, Australia and other partners were also imposing sanctions this week. The US Treasury Department in a separate statement said it was imposing sanctions on more than two dozen people and entities it said were connected to Iran's <violent suppression> of protests after Amini's death, its crackdown on dissenting voices, and restrictions to internet access. The action targets 29 people and groups, including 18 key members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iran's Law Enforcement Forces (LEF), as well as the head of Iran’s Prisons Organisation, the department said. It also targets officials linked to Iran’s internet blockade and several media outlets. The sanctions target the LEF spokesperson Saeed Montazerolmehdi, multiple LEF and IRGC commanders, and the Prisons Organisation chief, Gholamali Mohammadi. The chief executive of Douran Software Technologies, Alireza Abedinejad, as well as the state-controlled media organisations Press TV, the Tasnim news agency and Fars News, were also among those sanctioned. <The United States ... will continue to take collective action against those who suppress Iranians’ exercise of their human rights,> the Treasury's under-secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, Brian Nelson, said in the statement. Britain separately announced its sanctions targeting senior Iranian decision makers enforcing Tehran's mandatory hijab law, including Iran's minister for culture and Islamic guidance, his deputy, the mayor of Tehran and an Iranian police spokesperson.>>
Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/15/us-and-uk-issue-sanctions-on-iran-one-year-on-from-mahsa-aminis-death

The below mentioned article is really worth your time, and also as a extra way to commemorate our sister Jina Amini, to read because the women at word tell very clear that they'll not back down!
France 24 | The Observers - September 15, 2023
<<Proposed hijab penalties in Iran: 'They can't prosecute millions of women'...>>
Read it here, and view a video:
https://observers.france24.com/en/middle-east/20230915-proposed-hijab-penalties-in-iran-they-can-t-prosecute-millions-of-women

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