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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.
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 start of the Zan,
Zendagi, Azadi (Women, life, freedom) revolution in Iran
2022
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Here we are to enter THE IRANIAN
WOMEN'S REVOLUTIONISTS against
'Facing Faces and
Facts 1-2' (2022) to commemorate the above named and more and food for
thought and inspiration to fight on.
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2-weekly opinion by Gino d'Artali: |
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 - September 8, 2023 - by SOLMAZ EIKDAR
<<Iranian Protester Killed in Prison Through <Torture,> Ex-Cellmate Says
<They killed him. I swear, they killed him. I don't mean they physically
strangled him with a rope or beat him to death, but during these three
months when his sentence was overturned, they killed him by keeping him
waiting.> These are the words from a former cellmate of Javad Rouhi, an
Iranian man who was detained during the recent nationwide protests and
died on August 31 under suspicious circumstances while in prison. He
spoke to IranWire.
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The last image we have of Javad Rouhi, a 35-year-old young man from a
village north of Amol City, is a video of him dancing on the streets on
September 22, 2022. He was arrested during the initial days of the
<Woman, Life, Freedom> protest movement. Rouhi had traveled to Nowshahr
to meet his ex-wife and on September 22 found himself in the middle of
protestors marching toward the city's Azadi Square. The Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) apprehend him and subject him to four
days of relentless torture. According to the Committee for Monitoring
the Status of Detainees, his torment was so severe that upon being
transferred to the Shaheed Kazemi detention center in Sari, he couldn't
control his urinate, lost the ability to speak and was severely injured.
The detention center is under the control of the IRGC Intelligence
Organization and is located within Nowshahr's Tirkala prison. Initially
detained on charges of being a <protest leader,> his jailers tortured
him in an attempt to extract a confession from him that he had burned a
copy of the Quran. He refused to admit that, however. On January 10, the
judiciary's official news agency, Mizan, reported that Rouhi was
sentenced to death three times, with the headline reading, <The main
leaders of Nowshahr riots sentenced to death.> According to this report,
the Sari Islamic Revolutionary Court accused him of <undermining the
nation's internal security through criminal activities,> <arson and
destruction of property leading to significant disruption of public
order and security,> <vandalism,> <inciting arson and vandalism in
public facilities to disrupt social order and security,> <encouraging
citizens to cause insecurity and conspiracy to commit crimes against the
nation's internal security,> and <apostasy through the desecration of
the Quran by burning the Holy Quran and insulting sacred objects.> The
court proceedings were never made public, and Rouhi did not have access
to a lawyer of his choice. <I defended myself vigorously and with
compelling reasoning, making it improbable for even Judge Salvati to
impose a severe sentence,> he told his ex-cellmate. According to Mizan,
<the court, based on the available evidence, explicit confessions from
the accused and reports from officers, determined that this accused
played a role in organizing and leading the rioters.> The verdict was
overturned by Branch 9 of the Supreme Court on May 23, but Rouhi was
remanded behind bars.
The case was referred to the Tonekabon Revolutionary Court for
reconsideration, but that court deemed itself <incompetent> to handle
it. The case was then sent to Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in
Amol, which forwarded it to Branch 1 of Sari Revolutionary Court.
Ultimately, as reported by Majid Kaveh, Javad Rouhi's appointed lawyer,
the case was referred to Branch 8 of the Mazandaran Province Court of
Appeals to determine the appropriate jurisdiction. The case remained
unsettled until his death.
241 Days of Torture
In the interview with IranWire, Rouhi's former cellmate vividly recalled
the day when his three death sentences were overturned. The man was full
of joy, laughing and dancing, but his case remained open for the
following 107 days, leaving him in a state of fear and hope <until his
body and spirit could bear no more,> he said. Rouhi spent days on end
waiting by the phone, and when his hopes were dashed, he sometimes
stayed in bed for an entire week. According to the ex-cellmate, the most
profound torment came when his interrogator told him he would <not leave
this prison alive.>
Agents of the IRGC intelligence even said they didn't require a judge's
order to end the life of someone who had disrespected the Quran. Rouhi's
ex-cellmate disclosed that upon his arrival in prison, he was in a state
of profound distress. He would sometimes <fall silent for days, perhaps
even weeks, and then spend hours in the bathroom washing himself.> He
also revealed that Rouhi spoke little about the torture he endured, but
his cellmates knew he was struggling to control his urinary functions.
Amnesty International has said that Rouhi was subjected to severe
beatings and <floggings, including on the soles of his feet and while
being tied to a pole, given electric shocks with tasers, exposed to
freezing temperatures, and sexually assaulted by having ice put on his
testicles for 48 hours.> <Revolutionary Guards agents repeatedly pointed
a gun to Javad Rouhi's head and threatened to shoot him if he did not
make forced confessions,> according to the London-based human rights
watchdog. Ehsan Pirbornash, a journalist jailed with Rouhi, recalled his
harrowing screams. <No humiliation was spared,> according to Pirbornash.
Rouhi's former cellmate stated that he occasionally took sedatives to
calm his anxiety, but not to a level that could lead to <suicide or
self-harm.> A claim made by the judiciary regarding Rouhi's alleged
history of addiction was disputed by his former associate. He didn't see
Rouhi using methadone or displaying any symptoms of addiction. <Javad
mentioned being under a psychiatrist's care before imprisonment, but he
never discussed addiction or attempts to overcome it,> the ex-cellmate
said. <Javad was killed through torture, physically and psychologically,
inflicted over weeks by intelligence agents, followed by the
psychological torment of a death sentence hanging over him, which left
him in constant fear of being executed at any moment.>
The Last Night
According to a report published by Mizan on August 30, Rouhi visited the
prison hospital at 5:30 p.m. and was prescribed Diclofenac, a medicine
used to treat aches, pains and problems with joints, as well as cold
medicine. At 8 p.m. Rouhi returned to the prison hospital, where he
received oxygen therapy, and left after 15 minutes. The report says
Rouhi suffered a seizure at 3:30 a.m. on August 31 and was taken to
Beheshti Hospital in Nowshahr. His former cellmate told IranWire that
the man <had been unwell since Tuesday, yet they didn't allow him to go
to the hospital until Wednesday.> <He displayed cold-like symptoms, but
it was more serious than that. We pleaded for him to be sent to the
hospital, but our requests were denied. He was taken to the hospital
twice and then they locked the prison doors.> <When Javad had a seizure,
one of the cellmates was awake. He noticed and woke us up. Despite our
efforts to knock on the door and call the guards, no one responded,> he
continued. He said that Rouhi was eventually transported to the hospital
at around 6 a.m.: <His condition was extremely critical, but he left the
prison alive.>
The Islamic Republic's False Narratives
Following the news of Rouhi's death in prison, the propaganda machinery
of the Islamic Republic initially attempted to portray him as mentally
ill.
<According to the prison health department, Rouhi had a history of
seizures and prior hospitalizations in the years preceding his arrest
and imprisonment,> Mizan reported on August 31. A lawyer told IranWire
that <revealing an individual's medical history is prohibited by law,>
adding: <Article 648 of the Islamic Penal Code prescribes penalties for
those who violate this law.> <Now, it remains to be seen whether Mizan
news agency disclosed these medical details with the judge's
authorization. If so, it raises the question of why the judge was swift
to reveal a defendant's medical records even before a coroner confirmed
any connection between his prior seizures and his death.> This lawyer
also stressed that if Rouhi died due to drug abuse, the responsibility
falls upon the Prisons Organization, because, under Articles 140 to 143
of the Prisons Organization Regulations, drugs should not be provided to
prisoners.
And if Rouhi was indeed mentally ill, how could he have been tried and
imprisoned?
<According to the judiciary, Rouhi was unwell before committing the
alleged crime, and the judiciary had access to his medical records.
Therefore, his arrest, trial, and detention were all conducted in
violation of the law,> the lawyer said. This might explain why media
affiliated with the Islamic Republic promoted a second theory: <Javad
Rouhi was a drug addict and was in the process of quitting methadone.>
On September 1, Hamshahri newspaper, citing Tasnim news agency, reported
that Rouhi was hospitalized at Amol Hospital about 14 months prior to
his arrest to treat his addiction to crystal methamphetamine and crack.
However, the Islamic Republic's propaganda apparatus failed to address
how a person can suddenly experience seizures almost two years into the
process of gradually reducing methadone consumption. Moreover, the
director of Shahrivar Hospital 17 in Amol told the official IRNA news
agency that Rouhi was in good overall health when he was discharged
after eight days.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/special-features/120247-iranian-protester-killed-in-prison-through-torture-ex-cellmate-says/
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