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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Iranwire - 12 Jan 2024 - by ROGHAYEH REZAEI
<<Iran Faces Drug Shortage Crisis Due to Currency Scarcity
Drug shortages continue to loom over Iran's healthcare system, mainly due to mismanagement by the Islamic Republic's authorities. The director-general of the Food and Drug Administration, Mohammad Peykanpour, disclosed on January 12 that 99 drugs currently face shortages in the country.
He attributed 31 of these shortages to a lack of foreign currency for imports. Peykanpour further revealed that the Central Bank of Iran finally allocated a mere $20 million last week for drug imports. That seemingly small amount stands in stark contrast to the $3.5 billion allocated in the budget for imports of drugs and powdered milk. Iran's currency plunged to record lows against the dollar last year, in another setback for an economy whose outlook has steadily dimmed since 2018, when then President Donald Trump reimposed crippling sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
Amid widening budget deficit and inflation topping 50 percent annually, poverty has spread, despite the country holding some of the world's largest oil reserves. In the face of Iran's crumbling healthcare system, the country's muscular dystrophy support association warned last month that <many> Iranians suffering from the disease have been forced to seek refuge abroad to receive free medical care.>>
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https://iranwire.com/en/news/124279-iran-faces-drug-shortage-crisis-due-to-currency-scarcity/
Opinion by G. d'A.: In about two months from now there are elections scheduled. Does the mullahs' regime really expect the freedom-loving people of Iran, also having the freedom to have medicines available when desperately needed, expect them to vote for the regime? No way or better said 'Give way to our medicines now or get lost!!'

Iranwire - 12 Jan 2024 - by ROGHAYEH REZAEI
<<Iranian Baluch Prisoner Died Due to Lack of Proper Healthcare
Jamshid Arbabi Gorgij officially died of <cardiac arrest> early this month while in custody, but his delayed transfer to a hospital in the southeastern city of Zahedan is believed to have played a significant role in the untimely demise of this young man. According to a source close to the family, Gorgij was the father of three children aged five, seven, and 10. The family resided in Shir Abad, a Baluch-populated and marginalized neighborhood of Zahedan. According to the source and social media posts by Gorgij's relatives, he underwent a <religious conversion> a few years ago and actively participated in religious gatherings and congregational prayers led by Molavi Abdulhamid, the Sunni prayer leader of Zahedan. Photographs showing Gorgij alongside Iran's most prominent Sunni cleric have been made public. The IranWire source, who wished to remain anonymous for security reasons, said that Gorgij was arrested in July 2022 after <a fight with a military officer.> He died in custody six months before the end of his prison term. Gorgij had no history of heart problems, and the circumstances surrounding the deterioration of his health in prison remain unclear. On January 2, fellow inmates <noticed that he wasn't breathing and took him to the corridor,> the source said. <Despite their urgent pleas, prison guards delayed his transfer to the hospital for several hours.> Prison authorities routinely deny or delay medical assistance to inmates, with sometimes fatal consequences. Baktash Abtin, a poet and member of the Iranian Writers Association, died in January 2022 after contracting COVID-19 in prison.
He had fallen into a coma after prison authorities withheld his transfer to hospital for several days. More recently, Navid Mihandoost, a filmmaker incarcerated in Tehran's Evin prison, disclosed the death of a fellow inmate due to delayed treatment and hospitalization.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/124288-iranian-baluch-prisoner-died-due-to-lack-of-proper-healthcare/

Iranwire - 12 Jan 2024
<<HRW: No End in Sight for Violent Repression in Iran
The Iranian authorities’ <rutal repression>of peaceful dissent continues unabated one year after nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini' death in September 2022, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. The authorities have also <consolidated their efforts to increase punitive measures against women who refuse to wear the mandatory headscarf in public spaces> , the New York-based group said in a statement on January 11 accompanying the release of its annual review of human rights around the globe. <For many, everyday life in Iran feels like a battle with a corrupt, autocratic government that has brought down the full force of its repressive machinery to quash dissent,> said Michael Page, Middle East deputy director.
<Iranian authorities should know that anything short of fundamental change will only deepen public anger and frustration against their mismanagement and brutality.> The Islamic Republic cracked down hard on the monthslong protests sparked by Amini's death while she was in police custody for an alleged hijab violation. More than 500 people were killed and over 22,000 others were unlawfully detained in the clampdown, activists say. Following grossly unfair trials, 25 death sentences were issued in connection to the protests, HRW said. At least eight protesters have been executed so far. <The authorities have refused to open transparent investigations into security forces’ use of excessive and lethal force, torture, sexual assault, and other serious abuses, and have instead pressured families of victims to not hold public memorial services,> HRW said.
<Scores of human rights defenders, journalists, members of ethnic and religious minorities, and dissidents are serving lengthy sentences after being convicted of national security charges in grossly unfair trials,> it added. <Detained protesters have died in suspicious circumstances.> Ahead of the protest anniversary, the authorities increased their crackdown on dissent through <intimidation, arrests, prosecutions, and trials of activists, artists, dissidents, lawyers, academics, students, and family members> of those killed during the 2022 protests, according to the group. The authorities also prosecuted women and girls who refuse to wear a headscarf in public, issued traffic citations for passengers without a head covering, and closed businesses that do not enforce the Islamic Republic's strict dress code on their premises. In September last year, parliament approved a draft Hijab and Chastity bill proposing increased prison terms up to 10 years for expressing opposition to hijab regulations, as well as restrictions on job and educational opportunities for violators. HRW also said it had documented <far harsher use of repressive tactics, including arbitrary arrests and excessive use of force,> in ethnic and religious minority areas of Kurdistan province and Sistan and Baluchistan province, which it said have played leading roles during the 2022 protests.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/124286-hrw-no-end-in-sight-for-violent-repression-in-iran/

Iranwire - 12 Jan 2024
<<Baha'i Homes Raided in Tabriz
In a coordinated operation on January 9, agents of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence raided the homes of several Baha'i families in Tabriz, marking a fresh escalation in the government's pressure campaign against the religious minority. IranWire obtained a report detailing the raids, which targeted at least six Baha'i households. Agents confiscated religious texts, photos, and personal belongings, including computers and mobile phones. No official charges or justification for the searches were provided, and the families were reportedly threatened. While no arrests or summonses occurred in Tabriz, this incident appears to be part of a larger pattern of nationwide raids against Baha'i communities seen in recent months. Similar coordinated searches and confiscations of Baha'i belongings have been reported in cities such as Yazd, Hamedan, Isfahan, and Qaimshahr.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/bahais-of-iran/124275-bahai-homes-raided-in-tabriz/

Iranwire - 12 Jan 2024
<<US Envoy Decries Death Sentences Against Kurdish Iranian Political Prisoners
The US Office of the Special Envoy for Iran has condemned death sentences handed down recently against four Kurdish Iranian men, and urged the country's authorities to <repress their own people.> On January 6, the Norway-based human rights organization Hengaw reported that the Islamic Republic's Supreme Court had upheld the death sentences for the four political prisoners aged in their 20s. Mohsen Mazloum, Pezhman Fatehi, Vafa Azarbar and Mohammad (Hajir) Faramarzi had been sentenced in the first instance by the Tehran Revolutionary Court for allegedly collaborating with Israel, it said. <The Iranian regime continues to use false accusations, forced confessions, and unfair trials to silence political opponents and peaceful protestors,> US Deputy Special Envoy for Iran Abram Paley said on the social media network X. <We call on Iranian authorities to release all unjustly detained political prisoners and stop repressing their own people,> he wrote. The four Kurdish convicts, who are members of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, were arrested in West Azerbaijan Province in July 2022 <while trying to carry out an explosion in Isfahan's industrial facilities,> state media reported the following month. The party called the claims baseless, saying that <such a scenario has been proposed to suppress more people and protesters.> Hengaw cited sources close to their families as saying that their relatives have had no information about their fate or whereabouts and no face-to-face meetings or phone calls with them since their arrest, while their lawyer has not been able to study the case. State TV has broadcast the forced confession of the accused at least twice, the group added, while their families faced threats from government institutions. The rate of executions in Iran has been rising sharply in the wake of nationwide protests triggered by the September 2022 death of Mahsa Amini while she was in police custody for an alleged hijab violation. The Iran Human Rights group said in November that the Islamic Republic had executed more than 700 people in 2023, the highest figure in eight years. Amnesty International says the regime in Tehran executed more people than any other country in the world other than China last year. Ethnic minorities in Iran, including Kurds, face widespread discrimination in law and practice and are disproportionately affected by death sentences imposed for vague charges, according to the London-based human rights organization.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/124271-us-envoy-decries-death-sentences-against-kurdish-iranian-political-prisoners/

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