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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Iranwire - September 13, 2023 - by JAVAD MOTEVALI
<<An Iranian Teacher's Ordeal in Karaj’s Ghezelhesar Prison
Jafar Ebrahimi, a dedicated teacher and member of the Iranian Teachers' Union, was transferred on September 3 from Tehran’s Evin prison to Ghezelhesar prison in Karaj, near Tehran, alongside several other political prisoners. Prior to this transfer, he was suffering multiple ailments that posed a significant threat to his health. This report sheds light on the plight of this activist and the other prisoners who are enduring dire conditions in Ghezelhesar prison.
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<Jafar Ebrahimi is not only a union activist but also an educator with over 20 years of teaching experience,<teachers' union activist Shiva Ameli-Rad told IranWire. “He dedicated his time working in the marginalized areas of southern Tehran. Among his students, there were many Afghan immigrants and individuals who had relocated to the outskirts of Tehran due to unemployment crises and environmental issues in other provinces.> <As a teacher, he had a profound connection with these immigrant children and was an advocate for children's rights. He was an active member of the Yari Association, which supported children unable to attend school for various reasons," Ameli-Rad added. After Ebrahimi's arrest on April 30, 2022, he endured prolonged periods of solitary confinement before being transferred to the general ward of Evin prison, according to the activist. During this time, Ebrahimi's health deteriorated significantly. And over the past few months, he has not received any effective medical treatment.
According to medics, he requires specialized care, including daily tests.
Ebrahimi was transferred to a hospital last year due to his deteriorating health but was returned to prison after two days, Ameli-Rad said. She
explained that Ebrahimi has been grappling with digestive issues since 2009 - problems that likely exacerbated in prison due to stress and inadequate nutrition. <Jafar Ebrahimi has regularly visited the prison's health center, where the doctor prescribed medication that severely compromised his immune system. As a result, his body has become vulnerable to other illnesses,> Ameli-Rad said. In recent months, Ebrahimi has been diagnosed with high blood sugar and diabetes, and his vision has significantly deteriorated.
Transfer to Qezelhesar Prison: A Gruesome Ordeal
Two weeks ago, Ebrahimi and other prisoners refused to use Ward 4's telephone for three consecutive days to protest the exorbitant costs, surveillance and frequent call disconnections. <During those three days, Jafar lost consciousness due to his declining health and had to receive treatment. His forensic report explicitly mentions that he cannot endure further punishment due to the progression of his illness and that he should be granted the right to medical leave and treatment,> Ameli-Rad said. In Ghezelhesar prison, the inmates were accommodated in cramped cells housing up to four men each. Initially, they did not receive meals from the prison. However, on the second day, some Sunni prisoners on death row offered them food items such as biscuits, cakes and cheese. <Over the past three days, they have not received these supplies and resorted to a hunger strike. This is not a hunger strike they decided upon arbitrarily,> Ameli-Rad said. <Aside from the lack of access to food and telephones, they are also devoid of proper sleeping accommodations. Their cells are extremely small, and they would prefer to return to Evin's solitary cells 240 and 209,> she continued.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/120427-an-iranian-teachers-ordeal-in-karajs-ghezelhesar-prison/

Iranwire - September 13, 2023 - by ROGHAYEH REZAEI
<<Housewife Denied Needed Medicine at Isfahan Prison
Masoumeh Yavari, 45-year-old housewife and mother of two, has been in custody since September 5, when 24 plainclothes officers stormed her home to arrest her. The officers accused Yavari of <supporting hostile organizations,> <propaganda> and <destroying and setting fire to public property> - charges her family denies. Yavari's health is gravely concerning, and the interrogators and officials at Isfahan's Dolat Abad prison, where she is being held, are hindering access to medications in an attempt to force her into making confessions. <Her family was truly taken aback,> a source told IranWire. <This woman is a housewife, and she underwent spinal disc surgery two years ago. Her physical condition is so delicate that she cannot even sit for a long time.> Yavari was first arrested during protests that followed the disputed 2009 presidential election. Her children were minors at the time. During her incarceration, <electric baton strikes to her neck inflicted by prison guards> caused a lumbar disc injury. Following her latest arrest, Yavari's family remained unaware of her whereabouts for three days. On the third day, she made a call from Dowlat Abad prison saying she had been kept in solitary confinement and had not met with her interrogators. She also informed her family that her painkillers had run out. When her family attempted to deliver her medicines, the Intelligence Protection unit refused to accept them.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/120430-housewife-denied-needed-medicine-at-isfahan-prison/

Iranwire - September 13, 2023 - by MANA NEYESTANI
<<For the Incarcerated Parents
Iranian security forces detained a three-year-old girl along with her mother during a raid at their home on August 16. The toddler, named Afra, remained in custody with her mother Narges Sardari for several hours until her grandmother was summoned at the prosecutor's office. Afra's father, theater actor Mehdi Etemad Saeed, has been languishing behind bars since June. Flagging concerns over her husband's whereabouts and the suffering of her daughter, Sardari had taken to Instagram to demand his release. Sardari revealed that two weeks after the arrest of her husband, security agents searched their home and confiscated her mobile phone. Later, she was allowed to talk to him over the phone for <one minute.> <They didn't even allow me to hear his voice. They insisted on handing the phone to Afra so that Mehdi could speak. I do not know how long I need to plead for Afra to hear Mahdi's voice once again,> she wrote. Etemad Saeed was arrested in front of her daughter on June 9.The actor was apprehended by plainclothes men in Tehran's Laleh Park during a play therapy session with a group of children.>>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/cartoons/120431-for-the-incarcerated-parents/

Iranwire - September 13, 2023
<<Jailed Iranian Women Activist Ends Hunger Strike after Two Weeks
Iranian political prisoner and civil activist Bahare Hedayat announced on September 13 the end of her hunger strike after 14 days. <I will end my strike, but not my commitment [which will endure] until the day when the Islamic Republic, this anti-freedom government, is removed from the soil of Iran,> she wrote in a statement from Tehran's Evin prison. Hedayat is a well-known human rights activist in Iran who has been arrested and imprisoned several times for her activism. She is currently serving a four-year and eight-month sentence for participating in protests after the Islamic Republic Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down a Ukrainian airliner in January 2020. The activist was moved to hospital on September 13 after launching a hunger strike on August 31 to protest the death of Javad Rouhi, a man who was detained during the recent nationwide protests and died under suspicious circumstances while in prison. Rouhi's family, fellow political prisoners and activists urged Hedayat to end her protest action, fearing for her life. In her statement, Hedayat explained that she went on hunger strike <to remember the endless resistance in the street, to remember the will, courage and conscience that boiled in the university, and to remember the hopes that were born> during the widespread protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody on September 16, 2022.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/120434-jailed-iranian-women-activist-ends-hunger-strike-after-two-weeks/

Iranwire - September 13, 2023
<<Troops Deployed across Iran's Saqqez ahead of Mahsa Anniversary
Saqqez - A significant increase in security presence has been witnessed in the western Iranian city of Saqqez in recent days, ahead of the September 16 anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death. Security forces can be seen in the main streets and squares of Amini's hometown, with vehicles of special forces being deployed in Azadi and Republic Squares. The Iranian authorities, fearing a flare up in protests ahead of the anniversary of Amini's death in police custody, have ramped up security measures in Kurdistan province, particularly Saqqez. Videos shared on social media suggest that troops are being deployed to Saqqez and other cities in Kurdistan. Cities in the province have experienced a significant slowdown in internet speed in recent days, while activists and ordinary citizens have been arrested or summoned by the authorities. On September 13, security forces stormed the residence of civil activist Samira Ahmadi and took her into custody without presenting a court order.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/120435-troops-deployed-across-irans-saqqez-ahead-of-mahsa-anniversary/

For the following 3 informative reports please click on the links and also here to be informed how Cryfreedom.net follows up the Jina Amini revolution:
PART 2 OF THE REGIME'S ATTEMPT AND CRUELTY
TO TRY AND CRUSH THE PROTESTS AND COMMEMORATION OF THE KILLING OF JINA MAHSA AMINI ALMOST A YEAR AGO

 France 24 - September 13, 2023 - by
<<A year of revolt after the death of Jina Mahsa Amini...>>
Read it all here:
https://webdoc.france24.com/iran-year-protests-after-death-mahsa-amini-women-repression-crackdown/

Iranwire - September 13, 2023
<<Iran after Mahsa Amini: A Year of Uprising, Blood and Death...>>
Read it all here:
https://iranwire.com/en/features/120419-iran-after-mahsa-amini-a-year-of-uprising-blood-and-death/

France 24 - September 13, 2023
<<Death of Mahsa Amini: 'The silent crowd came to life and began shouting'....>>
Read it all here:
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20230913-repression-in-iran-they-took-my-clothes-off-and-cut-my-hair

JINHA - Womens News Agency - September 13, 2023
<<Female prisoners call on Bahareh Hedayat to end her hunger strike
News Center-Iranian human rights activist Bahareh Hedayat, who has behind bars in Evin prison since October 3, 2022, started a hunger strike on September 31 to protest the death of Javad Rouhi under suspicious circumstances in prison and to condemn the accusations against Iranian journalists Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi. On the 13th day of her hunger strike, she was hospitalized due to her deteriorating health condition. After an hour at the hospital, she was sent back to Evin prison. Female political prisoners in Evin prison have written a letter to Bahareh Hedayat. In the letter, they called on Bahareh Hedayat to end her hunger strike to <realize our dreams of freedom and equality in Iran together.>
The letter is a follows:
<Bahareh Hedayat, we ask you to end your hunger strike so that we can realize our dreams together. We have been passing through an era where the truth is turned upside down and the values that determine politics have collapsed. In such a period, for someone who has been making efforts for the freedom of everyone and of Iran, there may be no choice than sacrificing her life to warn that what is being stolen is the life of a human being and the existence and future of a country. Bahareh Hedayat has been on a hunger strike for days in protest against the 'deprivation of conscience' that takes lives while we, as political prisoners held in Evin prison, witness the suffering and tension faced by women. <We, as a group of your comrades, declare that we cannot bear that you risk your life and health anymore. On the behalf of the mother and father of Javad Rouhi, we ask you to end your hunger strike so that we can realize our dreams of freedom and equality in Iran together.>
Signatures:
Elaheh Mohammadi, Sepideh Kashani, Sepideh Keshavarz, Sepideh Qolian, Sarvnaz Ahmadi, Shakila Monfared, Zahra Tohidi, Fariba Kamalabadi, Faezeh Hashemi, Horiya Ziaei, Golrokh Iraee, Nasrin Javadi, Nahid Taghavi, Niloufar Bayani, Niloufar Hamedi, Narges Mohammadi, Mahosh Thabit, Mahosh Adalati, Mahboubeh Rezaei, Vida Rabbani and Hoda Tohidi.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/female-prisoners-call-on-bahareh-hedayat-to-end-her-hunger-strike-33841

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JINHA - Womens News Agency - September 13, 2023
<<Bahareh Hedayat sent back to prison from hospital
News Center- Iranian human rights activist Bahareh Hedayat, who has been behind bars in Evin prison since October 3, 2022, was hospitalized on the 13th day of her hunger strike due to her deteriorating health condition. <My client Bahareh Hedayat was transferred from Evin prison to the hospital on the 13th day of the hunger strike following the deterioration of her condition. She was sent back to prison one hour ago. Despite the advice and insistence of the doctors at this hospital, she refused to cover her head and end her strike,> said her lawyer Zahra Minoui on her social media account. Iranian activist Bahareh Hedayat started her hunger strike on September 1 to protest the death of Javad Rouhi under suspicious circumstances in prison on August 31 and to condemn the accusations against Iranian journalists Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/hunger-striker-bahareh-hedayat-sent-back-to-prison-33837 

Iranwire - September 12, 2023
<<Jailed Iranian Activist on Hunger Strike Moved to Hospital
Bahareh Hedayat, a jailed Iranian human rights activist who has been on a hunger strike for nearly two weeks, has been moved to hospital, her lawyer says. <According to the information from the family, my client Bahareh Hedayat was transferred from [Tehran’s] Evin prison to the hospital on the 13th day of the hunger strike following the deterioration of her condition,> lawyer Zahra Minoui said on X, formerly Twitter. On September 10, Minoui said that Hedayat required the assistance from a prison officer to attend a family meeting. Hedayat is serving a four-year-and eight-month sentence for participating in protest rallies following the downing of a Ukrainian airliner by Iranian forces over Tehran in January 2020. The activist began her hunger strike on August 31 to protest the death of Javad Rouhi, a man who was detained during the recent nationwide protests and died under suspicious circumstances while in prison. Rouhi's family has urged Hedayat to end her protest action, but she has refused.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/120392-jailed-iranian-activist-on-hunger-strike-moved-to-hospital/


JINHA - Womens News Agency - September 12, 2023
<<Narges Mohammadi beaten in Evin prison
News Center- Narges Mohammadi, prominent Iranian human rights defender imprisoned in Evin prison, was beaten and insulted on Monday (September 11) by one of the officials at the infirmary of Evin prison for not complying with rules for dress code. After the incident, she was taken to a hospital. No information has been received about her health condition until now. According to the received reports, although other officials of the prison witnessed that Narges Mohammadi was beaten and insulted, they did not do anything to prevent the official of the infirmary.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/narges-mohammadi-beaten-in-evin-prison-33828?page=1 

Jinha - Womens News Agency - September 12, 2023 - By ŞERİN MİHEMED
<<Şiraz Hamo: 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadi' uprising will achieve victory
Qamishlo- In an interview with NuJINHA, Şiraz Hamo, coordinating member of the Kongra Star, talked about the 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (English: Women, Life, Freedom)' uprising that started in Iran and Rojhelat Kurdistan following the killing of Jina Mahsa Amini in Tehran on September 16, 2022.
<The killing of Jina Mahsa Amini by Iran's so-called morality police turned into the spark of the uprising in Iran,> she said, <This uprising was not the result of that moment. It was an extension of the previous uprisings that had broken out against the existing dictatorial regime. The people of Iran and Rojhelat Kurdistan, especially women, rose up and demanded the change of the current system. They want to overthrow the cruel regime and change the injustice practices carried out by the regime aiming to intimidate people.> 'People from all ages have played their part'. Pointing out that people of all facets of life have participated in the uprising led by women, Şiraz Hamo said, <People from all ages have played their part with determination in the uprising led by women to change the current regime. The slogan 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadi' began to be chanted in the uprising to have a country based on freedom and equality. We need Jin (Women), Jiyan, (Life) and Azadi (Freedom) to have a life based on justice, equality, peace and democracy.>
'The effect of the revolution in Rojava has shown up itself all around the world'
<The women of Iran, who were influenced by the revolution in Rojava, rose up against the Iranian regime and the killing of Jina Mahsa Amini sparked the uprising,> said Şiraz Hamo. <Women chanted the slogan 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadi' to demand freedom. Women have many achievements that play an important role in the development of society in the 21st century. The freedom of women means the freedom of society. The effect of the revolution in Rojava has shown itself all around the world. Therefore, the 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadi' slogan has been chanted by women demanding freedom and wanting to enjoy their rights all around the world.>
Call for unity
In her speech, Şiraz Hamo recalled how women all around the world cut their hair and held protests to express their solidarity with Iranian women. She also called on all women to unite against the patriarchal mindset. <As women, we must support each other wherever we are. We must raise our voices together against the policies implemented against us to achieve victory by resisting and struggling. What has happened is a good model; women have overcome all difficulties by struggling and organizing themselves with determination and they have achieved many gains.> Şiraz Hamo thinks that women in Iran should keep resisting and making their voices heard all around the world. <The 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadi' uprising will definitely achieve victory.> >>
Source incl. video
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/Siraz-hamo-jin-jiyan-azadi-uprising-will-achieve-victory-33827?page=1

Iranwire - September 11, 2023
<<Prominent Iranian Women's Rights Activist Jailed; Reason Unknown
Atefeh Rangriz, a well-known writer and women's rights activist in Iran, has been arrested amid an intensifying clampdown on civil society. Rangriz conveyed the news to her family on September 10 during a brief phone call from Semnan prison, some 200 kilometers from Tehran. She did not provide any information about the charges against her or the circumstances of her arrest. She had been detained several times in the past for her activism, most recently in May 2019. Rangriz was sentenced to 11 years and six months in prison but was later released under an <amnesty.> The Iranian authorities, fearing a flare up in protests ahead of the September 16 anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death in police custody, have ramped up their crackdown on activists in recent months. Last month, security forces arrested 12 women's rights activists in the northern province of Gilan. The detainees were reportedly subjected to physical abuse and denied basic rights while in detention.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/120346-prominent-iranian-womens-rights-activist-jailed-reason-unknown/

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