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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Sasan Chamanara
Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 17 Jan 2024
<<Renewed Arrest of Kurdish Singer Sasan Chamanara in Ilam
Sasan Chamanara, a Kurdish singer from Ilam, previously arrested and convicted during the Woman, Life, Freedom (Jin, Jiyan, Azadi) movement, has been apprehended once again by the security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, intelligence ministry forces conducted a raid on the singer's residence in Ilam, taking him into custody and transporting him to a detention center. Reliable sources indicate that electronic belongings of Sasan Chamanara were confiscated, and an investigation was conducted at his sister's residence. As of now, there is no information available regarding the reasons for this arrest or the charges against him. Sasan Chamanara, the Ilam-based singer, had previously been detained during the Woman, Life, Freedom (Jin, Jiyan, Azadi) movement by the Intelligence Organization of Revolutionary Guard Corps forces. He was subsequently sentenced to 5 years of incarceration by the 29th branch of the Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Ali Mazloum.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2024/01/renewed-arrest-of-kurdish-singer-sasan-chamanara-in-ilam
Opinion by G. d'A.: Of late but I cannot but notice that since our dear but heinously murdered sister Jina Amini by a basij and in .... was post-mortem and as a tribute rewarded with the European .... (LINK) the mullahs' regime's 'footsoldiers' the irgc are on the hunt for Kurdish-rooted dissent people. Remember that Jina Amini was Kurdish-Iranian). Is this a 'sign on the wall'?


Reserve teachers protest
NCRI - Womens committee -17 Jan 2024 - in Women's News
<<Reserve Teachers Rally for Fair Treatment and Job Security in Tehran
Amidst escalating economic hardships, reserve teachers in Tehran took to the streets to voice their grievances, demanding equitable treatment and improved working conditions, on January 17, 2024. Convening in front of the education ministry, reserve teachers fervently expressed their dissatisfaction with the government’s failure to disburse their salaries and the absence of job security. Despite dedicating more than a decade to educating the nation's youth, these educators find themselves devoid of fundamental employment rights and a stable job status. The demonstration aimed to bring attention to their predicament, underscoring the necessity for a definitive contractual status to ensure stability in their professional lives.


Reserve teachers' rally in Tehran

The protest transcended to the health ministry, where reserve teachers continued to voice their concerns. The demonstration spotlighted the challenges encountered by these educators, pivotal contributors to the education system who grapple for acknowledgment and fair treatment. On January 16, 2024, in Hamedan, western Iran, retired government employees, including many women, congregated outside the government retirement fund office, underscoring their entitlement to augmented pensions in accordance with the nation's laws. Despite regulations mandating adjustments to pensions in alignment with the cost of living, the government has declined to enact these changes, resulting in growing dissatisfaction among retirees.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2024/01/17/reserve-teachers-rally/

Iranwire - 17 Jan 2024
<<Trial Opens over Killing of Top Iranian Film Director and Wife
Four individuals accused of involvement in the killing of renowned Iranian cinematographer Dariush Mehrjui and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar went on trial on January 17. The session at the First Branch of Alborz Criminal Court was open to the public, but journalists were not allowed to attend.
Manoush Manouchehri, the lawyer of Mehrjui's family, reportedly requested the death penalty for all defendants. However, she highlighted multiple deficiencies in the probe and called for further investigation of the case. The prosecutor's representative replied that the investigation is complete and that all claimed deficiencies have been addressed. Mehrjui and Mohammadifar were stabbed to death at their Karaj villa, near Tehran, on the evening of October 14, 2023. In November last year, the chief justice of Alborz province announced the indictment of the four suspects, stating that they were motivated by <revenge due to personal enmity and differences,> as well as <theft.> Mohammadifar's brother Akbar strongly disagreed with this narrative, characterizing the killings as a <premeditated and sophisticated act of intimidation.> He claimed that the accused acted <under the orders of another individual or individuals.> The Etemad newspaper has reported that the main suspects in the case included teenagers as young as 14 and 15.>>
https://iranwire.com/en/news/124419-trial-opens-over-killing-of-top-iranian-film-director-and-wife/
Click here for more info about this heinous murders:
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Protesting art students
Jinha - Womens News Agency 17 Jan 2024
<<Art student prevented from taking exam at Tehran University
The United Students Telegram channel announced on Wednesday that Tehmina Mahdian, a student at Tehran university of Art, was prevented from taking the semester exam.
News Center- The Iranian authorities have increased their crackdown on university students in recent days. The United Students Telegram channel announced on Wednesday that Tehmina Mahdian, a student at Tehran University of Art, was prevented from taking the second semester exam.
According to the channel, on January 15, the university authorities took the exam paper of Tahmineh Mahdian and forcibly took her out of the examination room without any notification. Tehmina Mahdian was previously suspended from university for four semesters by the disciplinary committee of Tehran University of Art for participating in the nationwide protests in Iran.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/art-student-prevented-from-taking-exam-at-tehran-university-34457?page=1


irgc kills two children
Jinha - Womens News Agency 17 Jan 2024
<<Two children killed in IRGC missile attack on Balochistan
IRGC missile attack on Balochistan, Pakistan, killed two children and injured three others on Tuesday.
News Center- Two children were killed and three girls were injured in the IRGC attacks on Balochistan, Pakistan, on Tuesday. According to the local reports, the killed children were aged four and two. Pakistan on Tuesday strongly condemned the Iranian airstrikes inside its borders, calling it an <unprovoked violation of its airspace> and warning of retaliation. Iran's state media reported that Iran had used precision missile and drone strikes to destroy two strongholds of the Sunni militant group Jaish al-Adl, known in Iran as Jaish al-Dhulm, in the Koh-e-Sabz area of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province. According to Pakistan's press outlets, Pakistan had summoned Tehran's top diplomat in Islamabad over the incident. <This violation of Pakistan's sovereignty is completely unacceptable and can have serious consequences,> Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/two-children-killed-in-irgc-missile-attack-on-balochistan-34458

Iranwire - 17 Jan 2024
<<Iranian Lawyer Banned from Practicing Law - On Top of Prison Term
Khosro Alikordi, a prominent Iranian lawyer who has represented political prisoners and their families, has been banned from practicing law for two years, amid a crackdown on legal advocacy in the country. Writing on his social media account on January 16, Alikordi said that the ban was decided by the Khorasan Bar Association's disciplinary court. In December last year, the Mashhad Revolutionary Court sentenced Alikordi to one year in prison and two years in exile. Alikordi said these punishments stem from his public statements about his clients' cases, including Fatemeh Sepehri and the family of Abolfazl Adinezadeh. Following the eruption of nationwide protests in September 2022, dozens of lawyers representing activists and detainees have faced arrests, summons and disbarment proceedings.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/124418-iranian-lawyer-banned-from-practicing-law-on-top-of-prison-term/

Iranwire - 17 Jan 2024
<<Azeri Activist Jailed in Iran for Over Two Weeks; Charges Unknown
Concerns are mounting over the fate of Azeri journalist and activist Ebrahim Savalan Rashidi, who has been in custody in northwestern Iran for more than two weeks. No clear charges or reason for his arrest have been announced yet. According to the Association for the Defense of Azerbaijani Political Prisoners In Iran, Rashidi's family received a 30-second phone call informing them of his transfer from the Ardabil Intelligence Detention Center to the city's prison. IranWire sources previously reported that he was arrested on December 30 during a raid by eight plainclothes agents on his parents' home in the village of Mirkandi. The officers identified themselves as belonging to the Ardabil Intelligence Department, and did not present an arrest warrant.Rashidi's electronic devices, books and other personal belongings were confiscated during the operation. The journalist and activist was subsequently held in solitary confinement at the Ardabil Intelligence Detention Center. In 2014, on the eve of International Mother Language Day, he was arrested for participating in a gathering of Azeri activists in the city of Ahar. He was sentenced to one year in prison and released in 2015.>>
https://iranwire.com/en/news/124417-azeri-activist-jailed-in-iran-for-over-two-weeks-charges-unknown/

Iranwire - 17 Jan 2024 - by MARYAM DEHKORDI
<<Threats against Iranian Families of Kurdish Prisoners on Death Row
The families of four Iranian Kurdish political prisoners who have been condemned to death on charges of <collaboration with Israel> have been threatened by Iranian security institutions for seeking information about their fate or whereabouts. Mohsen Mazloum, Pezhman Fatehi, Vafa Azarbar and Mohammad (Hajir) Faramarzi are members of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan. The four men aged in their 20s 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 accusations were rejected by the families and Komala as groundless. Earlier in January, it was reported that their death sentences had been upheld by the Supreme Court, and they are now at grave risk of arbitrary execution following a grossly unfair trial marred by allegations of torture and other ill-treatment. According to information obtained by IranWire, their relatives have had no information about the prisoners since their arrest, and their repeated pleas to have face-to-face meetings with them have been left unanswered. <I cannot explain my current condition and now is not the time to succumb to despair,> Mazloum's wife, Joana Tamisi, told IranWire. <We must amplify the voices of my husband and his innocent friends as much as possible.> According to Tamisi, the mothers and fathers of the political prisoners traveled from the cities of Mahabad, Kamyaran, Dehgolan and Bukan, in West Azerbaijan and Kurdistan provinces, to Tehran to demand a meeting with their loved ones, prevent the execution of their sentences and a fair retrial. On January 14, the parents gathered outside Evin prison, where the four political prisoners are held, and security forces surrounded them in an attempt to intimidate them. The houses where they were staying were also surrounded by security agents. Tamisi recounted another incident where two mothers were promised a meeting with their sons in Evin prison, only to be threatened upon entering the facility.
They were told that their sons were absent and that their presence in the prison would make their situation worse. In Mahabad, Tamisi's brother-in-law was summoned by the Intelligence Department and told to bring the family back from Tehran or <they will be sentenced to death too.>
Regarding the judicial process, Tamisi said that the family lawyer, Masoud Shamsnejad, has not been granted access to the case documents.
Shamsnejad has rejected the death sentence imposed on his client as unfair and unjust. The charges against the four convicts remain unclear.
Tamisi emphasized the psychological distress in the families, particularly on Fatehi's five-year-old son. <The innocence of a child confronted with the concept of execution and the death penalty made his mental state unstable,> she said. Tamisi mentioned that forced <confessions> from her husband and his friends were broadcast on state TV twice in the initial months after their arrest. After the death sentences were confirmed, these <confessions> were aired again, further increasing the families' fear of their imminent execution.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/124412-threats-against-iranian-families-of-kurdish-prisoners-on-death-row/


Fatemeh Mousavi
NCRI - Womens committee -16 Jan 2024 - in Women's News
<<Fatemeh Mousavi, mother of 2, faces charges in court
The second session of the trial of Fatemeh Mousavi was held by Branch 103 of the Public Court of Tehran in Kahrizak on Monday, January 15, 2024.
Fatemeh Mousavi, 30, is married with two children and resides in Tehran. She was arrested by security forces in Tehran on June 25, 2023, and ultimately released on bail on July 31, 2023. She is charged with disseminating <propaganda against the state,> <assembly and collusion against national security,> <insulting the leader> of the mullahs' regime, and <setting fire to and damaging public property.>
This case has three other defendants, including a teenager. The first session of her trial had been held 16 days ago, on December 30.


Detained teachers Maryam Jalal Hosseini and Fatemeh Tadrisi on hunger strike in Qarchak Prison

At the same time, two teachers, Fatemeh Tadrisi and Maryam Jalal Hosseini, have been sentenced to six years in prison and two years of internal exile by the Revolutionary Court of Karaj. They are charged with <inciting people to disrupt security,> disseminating <propaganda against the state,> insulting Khamenei, and <forming groups to disrupt security.> After being arrested during a teachers' protest in Tehran on May 9, 2023, they were temporarily released on bail. Both teachers were rearrested on August 23, 2023, and remain incarcerated in the Central Prison of Fardis in Karaj.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2024/01/16/fatemeh-mousavi/

Iranwire - 16 Jan 2024
<<Two Baha'is in Shiraz Summoned to Prison
Two Baha'i citizens, Mina Karami and Soroush Iqani, face imminent imprisonment as the Iranian government escalates its crackdown on the religious minority. According to HRANA human rights website, on January 15 Mina Karami, a Baha'i citizen in Shiraz, received a summons from Branch 1 of the General and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in the city. The summons instructed Karami to appear before judicial authorities on February 1 to start a five-year prison sentence she had received during a previous trial. In September 2022, Karami was convicted by Branch 1 of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court on charges of <deviant educational and propaganda activities contrary to Islamic Sharia law.> The sentence included five years of imprisonment, denial of social rights for 10 years, and a two-year prohibition on leaving the country. The verdict was later upheld by the Branch 37 of the Court of Appeal in Fars province. Meanwhile, Soroush Iqani, another Baha'i citizen in Shiraz, was arrested to serve a six-month sentence. He was arrested on January 14 and subsequently transferred to Adel Abad prison in Shiraz. Last year, Soroush Iqani was sentenced to two years in prison by Branch 1 of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court on charges of <gathering and collusion against the security of the country.> The sentence was later reduced to six months by the appeals court.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/bahais-of-iran/124372-two-bahais-in-shiraz-summoned-to-prison/

Iranwire - 16 Jan 2024
<<Iranian Police Official Has Death Sentence Overturned
Iran's Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence imposed on a police officer accused of killing a protester during the 2022 uprising. Mehran Samak was fatally shot in the head in Bandar Anzali on the evening of November 29, 2022, amid protests that followed the match between the US and Iranian national football teams in the World Cup in Qatar. The lawyer for Samak's family identified the perpetrator of the killing as Jafar Javanmardi, the then-commander of the police force in Anzali Bandar. Javanmardi was arrested in December 2022, and a court later sentenced the officer to death. However, on January 15, the Judiciary's Information Center announced that the Supreme Court had overturned the decision following objections raised by the defendant and his lawyer. The case was sent back to court for a new trial. Iranian authorities cracked down hard on the monthslong protests that erupted in September 2022. More than 500 people were killed and over 22,000 others were unlawfully detained in the clampdown, activists say. Following biased trials, the judiciary handed down stiff sentences, including the death penalty, to protesters. At least eight of them have been executed so far.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/124375-iranian-police-official-has-death-sentence-overturned/
Opinion by G. d'A.: I'd say another name for the UN fact-finding commission and prosecute for crimes against humanity.

Iranwire - 16 Jan 2024
<<Air Pollution Behind Nearly 14 Percent of Natural Deaths in Iran
Iran's Ministry of Health has attributed a staggering 13.9 percent of all natural deaths in the country to air pollution. <Tehran ranks 19th among the world's worst capitals in terms of concentration of suspended particles,> Abbas Shahsavani, who heads the ministry's air health and climate change group, told Tasnim news agency on January 16. According to him, the average concentration of suspended particles in Iran is <7.6 times higher> than the World Health Organization's guideline and <more than three times the national standard.> The official said that Tehran experienced in 2023 as many as 107 days of <unhealthy> air for sensitive populations and 36 days of <unhealthy air for all groups.> Decades of misguided environmental policies have contributed to the air-pollution crisis in Iran. Recently, Iranians took to the streets of multiple Iranian cities to protest the use of mazut, a low-quality heavy fuel oil, in power plants and other factories, especially when natural gas shortages hit during the hard winter months.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/124385-air-pollution-behind-nearly-14-percent-of-natural-deaths-in-iran/

Iranwire - 16 Jan 2024
<<Iranian Women Activists Handed Long-Term Sentences
An Iranian court has sentenced two Iranian women activists to six years in prison on charges related to their political activities, according to a U.S.-based human rights network. HRANA said on January 16 that the Revolutionary Court in Karaj, near Tehran, also ordered Maryam Jalal Hosseini and Fatemeh (Mojgan) Tadrisi to spend two years in exile after their release. It quoted the judge who presided over the court, Seyed Musa Asef-Al-Hosseini, as ruling that both women were guilty of <inciting people to violence, engaging in propaganda against the regime, insulting the supreme leader (Ali Khamenei), and forming groups to act against national security,> it said. Hosseini and Tadrisi were arrested in August last year and transferred to Kachooie prison in Karaj, where they are still being held. The two activists had previously been arrested due to their activism.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/124378-iranian-women-activists-handed-long-term-sentences/


Vahid Chavaran
Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 16 Jan 2024
<<Suicide Attempt by Kurdish Political Prisoner Vahid Chavaran in Ilam Prison
Vahid Chavaran, a Kurdish political prisoner hailing from Abdanan in Ilam province and detained during the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi movement, attempted suicide as a form of protest against a twelve-year imprisonment sentence imposed by the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to a report received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights on Monday, January 15, 2024, Vahid Chavaran committed suicide within the central prison of Ilam, expressing his protest against the 12-year imprisonment and subsequent exile to Zahedan. An informed source revealed that he ingested pills, and he is currently in critical condition under medical care at <Khomeini> hospital in Ilam. Earlier, on Monday, January 8, 2024, Vahid Chavaran received a twelve-year imprisonment sentence and was ordered into exile to Zahedan by the 1st branch of the Ilam Revolutionary Court. Having endured torture to extract a coerced confession during his detention, Vahid Chavaran took a drastic step on Sunday, September 3, 2023, by sewing his lips as a symbolic protest within the detention center. His arrest occurred on Friday, June 23, 2023, when security forces, employing extreme measures, apprehended Vahid Chavaran as he attempted to leave Iran. Fearing arrest by government forces, he had spent several months in the mountains around Abdanan during the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi movement. Throughout this period, security forces made numerous attempts to capture him.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2024/01/suicide-attempt-by-kurdish-political-prisoner-vahid-chavaran-in-ilam-prison

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