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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.
Zendegi. Azadi revolution.
16 February 2023 | By Gino d'Artali
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Jina Mahsa Amini (Kurdistan-Iran) and the start of the Zan,
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Januari 15 - 12, 2024 |
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 - 18 Jan 2024
<<Influential Iranian Women: Shirin Ebadi (1947-)
<I have a tongue in my mouth, and I will not keep quiet until the day I
die,> says Shirin Ebadi, the first Iranian woman to be awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize. This lawyer has remained true to this claim until today,
steadfastly advocating human rights despite her and her family facing
harassment and repeated death threats. Ebadi was also the first female
judge in Iran, a title and position that was taken away from her after
the Islamic Revolution of 1979. She has worked on many high profile
cases until she was forced to leave Iran when the government forcibly
shut down the Defenders of Human Rights Center, which she had founded,
following the disputed 2009 presidential election. At the time, she had
received numerous death threats. Ebadi was born in Hamedan in 1947. Her
father was the chief public attorney for the city and a professor of
commercial law. He and his family moved to Tehran in 1948.
Ebadi was admitted to the University of Tehran's Law School in 1965. In
1969, having received her bachelor's degree, she passed her exams to
join the Justice Ministry. She went on to attain a doctorate in law and,
in 1975, she was appointed the presiding judge of Branch 24 of Tehran's
City Court.
Women Cannot Be Judges
However, after the Islamic Republic was established following the 1979
revolution, the new rulers of the country forbade women from being
judges, so Shirin Ebadi and other female judges were dismissed from
their posts. She was also demoted to the position of a secretary at the
same court she had presided over. The situation became unbearable for
her, <so I asked for an early retirement, which I was granted,> she
says. However, she reversed this decision when the government introduced
the Islamic Penal Code bill to the parliament. <The first time I read it
I couldn't believe it,> she recalls. <I read it again and thought it was
badly written. The third time it finally dawned on me that they really
thought a woman was worth half a human being.> Before being granted a
license to practice law in 1991, Ebadi published a number of highly
critical articles in magazines in protest against the violation of
women's rights. <I would accept any legal case, but very quickly I
discovered that a lawyer needed to pay bribes in court to make any
headway,> she says. <So I put up a sign in my office that read, 'Because
of the special situation in the courts, I can't accept cases. I can only
consult [with clients].' Then I was confronted with cases that no other
lawyer would have accepted.> The first high profile case that Ebadi
accepted was that of Leila Fathi, an 11-year-old girl who had died after
repeated sexual assaults. It was cases like this that led Ebadi to found
the Society for Protecting the Rights of the Child in 1995. A year and a
half later, she took up the case of Arian Golshani, and challenged the
Islamic Republic's custody laws in court. Arian Golshani was a
nine-year-old girl who was tortured and murdered by her father and
stepbrother in a gruesome manner. After her parents separated, the law
and the court handling the case had granted custody to the father, even
though he was a known drug addict. The stepbrother was convicted of
murder while the father evaded justice. The trial caused a public outcry
and 10,000 people gathered at a memorial service for Golshani. In less
than a month, parliament passed a law empowering the courts to remove a
child from parental custody if they were proven to be unfit. Ebadi
represented many other people involved in high profile and contentious
cases, including Zahra Kazemi, the Iranian-Canadian photojournalist who
died in 2003 whilst at Tehran's Evin prison. She also defended the
children of Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar, prominent dissident figures
whose throats were cut by intelligence agents at their home in 1998
during a series of opposition killings that came to be known as the
<Chain Murders.> Ebadi says she came across her own name while reviewing
the Forouhars case. Then, in 2000, Ebadi spent three weeks in detention
for exposing the role of judiciary officials in the attack on student
dormitories in Tehran. A year later, she founded the Defenders of Human
Rights Center.
The Nobel Prize and Exile
In October 2003, Shirin Ebadi received the Nobel Peace Prize for her
role in defending human rights, especially of women and children. The
Islamic Republic authorities, including the reformist President Mohammad
Khatami, reacted by calling the prize <political.> <The people of Iran
have been battling against consecutive conflicts between tradition and
modernity for over 100 years,> Ebadi said in her acceptance speech in
Oslo. <By resorting to ancient traditions, some have tried and are
trying to see the world through the eyes of their predecessors and to
deal with the problems and difficulties of the existing world by virtue
of the values of the ancients. But many others, while respecting their
historical and cultural past and their religion and faith, seek to go
forth in step with world developments and not lag behind the caravan of
civilization, development and progress. The people of Iran, particularly
in recent years, have shown that they deem participation in public
affairs to be their right, and that they want to be masters of their own
destiny.> Ebadi used the prize money to aid the families of prisoners
and to create workshops aimed at raising awareness about civil rights.
She is also active in representing the Baha'is, a religious minority
that is not recognized by the Islamic Republic and whose rights are
systematically violated. Gradually, attacks against Ebadi intensified.
In 2008, the official Islamic Republic News Agency accused her of
seeking support from the West and, later the same year, the police shut
down the Defenders of Human Rights Center. Ebadi and her family
repeatedly received death threats. While visiting England in June 2009,
she decided to not go back to Iran. Since then, she has worked
extensively, writing a bilingual monthly report on human rights
violations in Iran, organizing seminars on human rights, and giving
lectures in different universities, among other things. Ebadi has
received numerous honorary doctorates from universities across the world
and other awards for defending human rights and democracy. In 2006,
France's government awarded her the Legion of Honor and, in 2011, the
French city of Poitiers named a street after her.
<Naturally, the life that I'm living is not a very comfortable life,>
Ebadi said in an interview. <But this is the price that we have to pay
for freedom in Iran. I'm not the only one paying this price. My
colleagues who are in prison are paying a higher price.> During her
years in exile, Ebadi tirelessly continued her efforts to expose the
Islamic Republic's complete disregard for the rights of women, children,
as well as religious and ethnic minorities to the world.
The Islamic Republic, she said in an interview, is a <gender apartheid>
regime.
<In the laws of the Islamic Republic, for example, it is written that
the life of a woman is worth half of the life of a man or that the
testimony of two women equals the testimony of one man. This means that
they do not recognize women as complete human beings. Or, when laws take
away rights from women, what they are doing is not recognizing the
humanity and identity of a woman. Therefore, there are no differences
between what I'm saying right now and the experiences of people of color
in South Africa. I do not think there is a difference. If the expression
of apartheid is used in racial issues, why should it not be used in
gender issues? <I hope that one day, when I look at the situation of
women in the world, I see that gender apartheid has become a crime
against humanity. In many countries, there are different campaigns. I
hope that they get together and coordinate their efforts so that they
can work better on gender apartheid.> Since at least 2009, Iran has been
rocked by a series of nationwide protests which has been brutally put
down by the government. The latest and longest was the <Woman, Life,
Freedom> movement that started in September 2022 following the death in
police custody of Mahsa Amini. Amid repeated crackdowns on protests,
these questions have been raised by Iranians, both inside the country
and in the diaspora: Is there a way forward toward freedom, justice and
democracy? What can people do in the face of a regime that stops at
nothing to hold on to absolute power and to its misogynic and
anti-democratic ideology? Ebadi answered this question in an interview
in late 2023: <They have to continue. Whenever I talk to young people I
tell them: imagine you are in a boat, and the sea gets rough, and the
boat turns over. What are you going to do? You have to swim. If you
think that you are too tired to swim, you are going to drown and die.
You just need to keep swimming until you reach the land; there is no
other way around it. In our country there is a religious dictatorship
that interferes in all of the affairs of people's lives. We can't choose
what to wear, we don’t have rights, and with all the wealth that exists
in the country, one third of the population live under the poverty line.
<Over the past 40 years, the people of Iran have been trying to resist
using different tactics and strategies. We were not looking for another
revolution, but it seems like the only option we have. There is no other
solution. We are exactly like that person who is drowning while their
boat sank. We just have to keep swimming, there is no other way.> >>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/124448-influential-iranian-women-shirin-ebadi-1947/
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Liberation Front 2019/cryfreedom.net 2024