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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Narges Mohammadi

Iranwire - Jan 15 2024
<<Jailed Iranian Nobel Winner Handed New Prison Term
The family of Iranian human rights activist and Nobel peace prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says she has been handed an additional 15-month prison sentence on charges of spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic while behind bars. Mohammadi was sentenced by the Tehran Revolutionary Court after a trial that she boycotted, the family said in a statement on Instagram on January 15. The activist was also ordered to spend two years in exile outside the capital, Tehran, given a two-year travel ban, and barred from using a smartphone for two years. The restrictions would come into force after she is eventually freed. The family said the verdict emphasized accusations that <she repeatedly incites and encourages public and individual opinions against the Islamic regime to sow chaos and disturbances.> This was her fifth conviction since March 2021, with sentences now amounting to 12 years and three months in prison, 154 lashes, two years of exile, and various social and political restrictions, according to the family's statement. Mohammadi was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize in October for keeping up her fight against the <oppression of women> in her country despite spending years behind bars. Her children accepted the prize in Oslo on her behalf in December. While behind the bars of Tehran's Evin prison, she has continued accusing the authorities of systematic rights violations and remained a vocal opponent of mandatory hijab.>>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/124347-jailed-iranian-nobel-winner-handed-new-prison-term/


Masoumeh Senobari
NCRI - Womens committee -15 Jan 2024 - in Women's News
<<Urgent Appeal for Immediate Release of Ms. Masoumeh Sanobari, Held in Solitary Confinement for 13 Months
Ms. Masoumeh Senobari, a political detainee apprehended in December 2022 during 2022 uprising, has endured an isolated confinement spanning 13 months at Fardis Prison in Karaj. In March 2023, she received a nine-year prison sentence on charges of 'participation in activities against the state through membership in the PMOI (People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran) and engaging in propagandistic endeavors against the system.' Subsequent to her conviction, the regime has persisted in maintaining her in solitary confinement, devoid of any communication with fellow inmates. Prior to this, she had been detained in 2018 and remained in prison until 2021. In vehemently denouncing the inhumane treatment meted out to Ms. Masoumeh Sanobari, the NCRI Women's Committee calls on the United Nations and the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in Iran to take immediate action for her release. It also demands an international fact-finding mission to visit Iran prisons and meet with prisoners, especially political and female prisoners.
National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) - Women’s Committee
January 15, 2024>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2024/01/15/masoumeh-senobari/   

Iranwire - 15 Jan 2024
<<Jailed Iranian Teachers' Union Activists Go on Hunger Strike
Two Iranian teachers' union activists have begun hunger strikes to protest their stiff sentences imposed after unfair trials, Iran's Teachers' Union reported on January 14. Gholamreza Gholami and Iraj Rahnama, two members of the Fars Teachers' Union board, were arrested on October 5, 2023, at the Shiraz Governorate after requesting a location for a teachers' protest. In an audio message released from prison, Gholami called the charges against him <fabricated> and denounced his 11-year prison term and sentence of two years in exile. The inmate announced he had started a hunger strike on January 13 and urged fellow teachers nationwide to protest his arrest and sentencing. He vowed to continue his protest action <until his last breath> to highlight the <sacred demands> of the teachers' community. Rahnama, vice president of the Shiraz Teachers' Union, announced his hunger strike in a separate message, saying he was protesting his <harsh sentence> imposed by <those who mocked the constitution.> The union activist, who had previously been arrested twice, said he had been unjustly detained for 99 days. He also urged the government to not use violence against the Iranian population, saying, <Even violent figures like Hitler and Genghis Khan couldn't sustain their power through brutality.> >>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/124348-jailed-iranian-teachers-union-activists-go-on-hunger-strike/

Iranwire - 15 Jan 2024
<<Iranian Boggers Charged for <Violating Morals and Public Decency>
Five bloggers residing in the southern Iranian city of Zarand have been summoned to the local General and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office on charges of <publishing inappropriate videos and images on social media,> according to media reports. Local prosecutor Reza Yaqoubi said the office had opened a case against the five individuals after receiving information about their activities from the Moral Security Police, the Farda-e-Kerman website reported on January 14. Yaqoubi accused the bloggers of posting <images that violate morals and public decency on social media,> without elaborating. The identities of the accused were not undisclosed. Farda-e-Kerman also reported that a <social media monitoring task force> has been established within the Zarand prosecutor's office to <control social media and particularly to monitor the conduct of election candidates.> Iranians will be called to polling stations on March 1 to choose among candidates running for seats in the parliament and Assembly of Experts. A growing number of Iranians have been summoned, arrested and prosecuted in recent days for criticizing the authorities for failing to provide security at a memorial ceremony earlier this month for Qassem Soleimani, a top commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) killed in a US drone strike in Iraq in January 2020. Nearly 100 people were killed in twin bombings targeting the event in the southeastern city of Kerman on January 3. The Sunni extremist group Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility. Following the attack, Attorney-General Mohammad Movahedi Azad ordered prosecutors to take <decisive action> against media and social media users publishing <false, illegal and criminal content.> >>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/124342-iranian-boggers-charged-for-violating-morals-and-public-decency/

Iranwire - 15 Jan 2024
<<At least 14 More Executions Carried Out in Iran
The Islamic Republic authorities executed at least 14 people at the weekend, activist groups say, raising fresh concerns about the increasing use of capital punishment in the country. Thirteen people were executed on January 14 in Karaj Central Prison, near Tehran, according to the US-based human rights network HRANA. It said five of those executed, identified as Akbar Taj, Hojjat Miri, Hamid Nazari, Ahmad Latifi and Mohammad Ali, had been sentenced to death on drug-related charges.
The group didn't provide information about the other convicts.
Meanwhile, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) group said Reza Heydari, an inmate in Khorram Abad Central Prison, in Iran's west, was also executed for drug-related offenses on January 13. At least 791 individuals were executed across Iran in 2023, marking a 33 percent increase from the previous year, according to IHRNGO's count. Those executed included 25 women and two juvenile offenders.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/124339-at-least-14-more-executions-carried-out-in-iran/
Opinion by G. d'A.: As you know by now I do not report about the faith of drug-related offenders but when it concerns juvenile and/or women and the latter too often hanged because they defended themselves against an abusing husband or fiance and they have all the right to do so and concerning juveniles, read children, I'm very loud and clear too: HANDS OFF!!!


Elaheh Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi
Jinha - Womens News Agency 15 Jan 2024
<<Elaheh Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi released on bail
Elaheh Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi, two Iranian journalists who were among the first to cover the death and the funeral of the 22-year old Jina Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022, have been released on bail.
News Center- Elaheh Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi, two Iranian journalists who were among the first to cover the death and the funeral of the 22-year old Jina Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022, were temporarily released on bail on January 14, 2024 after 17 months in prison. On October 22, 2023, Niloofar Hamedi, a reporter for Shargh Daily, and Elaheh Mohammadi, reporter for Hammihan newspaper, were sentenced to seven years and six years in prison respectively by the Revolutionary Court. The court also added a further five years in prison to each of their sentences for <acting against the national security> and a year for propaganda.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/elaheh-mohammadi-and-niloofar-hamedi-released-on-bail-34439

Preface from G. d'A.: I know I'm repeating myself with the above but it cannot be said enough: Journalism is not a crime! And any (indirect) news about our dear sister Jina Amini is a commemorative one so read long:

Iranwire - 15 Jan 2024
<<Iranian Journalists Jailed over Amini Coverage Released on Bail
Two Iranian women journalists jailed for their coverage of the September 2022 death in custody of Mahsa Amina were released on January 14 after spending a year and a half behind bars. Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi were granted temporary release on $200,000 bail pending an appeal of their sentences, the judiciary said. The pair left Tehran's Evin amidst a joyous outpouring of support from friends, colleagues and activists. News of their release, accompanied by celebratory pictures and videos on social media, sparked a wave of joy across the country. The Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Mohammadi and Hamedi in October to 12 and 13 years in prison, respectively, on charges including collaborating with the US government, colluding to commit crimes against national security, and engaging in propaganda activities against the Islamic Republic. On January 15, the main pages of Hamamihan and Shargh newspapers, where the journalists were working before their arrests, featured photographs capturing the moment Mohammadi and Hamidi were released from prison. The papers ran headlines proclaiming <The Good Day of Freedom> and <Niloofar and Elahe have arrived.> While welcoming their temporary release, the Journalist Association of Tehran province voiced criticism against the hefty bail imposed on the journalists. In a statement, the association expressed hope that the severe sentences handed down to them will be overturned on appeal. Mahsa Amini's father, Amjad, congratulated Mohammadi and Hamedi, saying, <The news of your release, after 400 days of suffering in prison and being away from your family, brought joy to all of us.> Iran's former crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, an exiled opposition figure, called for the release of all political prisoners. <I welcome the release of two courageous journalists, Mrs. Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, after 16 months of unjust imprisonment, extend my congratulations to their families, and express my hopes for the release of all political prisoners held captive by the regime,> he wrote on the social media platform X. Sherif Mansour of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said that the two journalists' convictions <are a travesty and serve as a stark testament to the erosion of freedom of speech and the desperate attempts of the Iranian government to criminalize journalism.> >>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/journalism-is-not-a-crime/124336-iranian-journalists-jailed-over-amini-coverage-released-on-bail/ 

But there's more:

Iranwire - 15 Jan 2024
<<Hijab Case Filed against Journalists Day after Release
The Islamic Republic judiciary has launched new proceedings against two journalists for posing without the mandatory headscarf upon their release after nearly a year and a half behind bars. Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi were released on January 14 from Tehran's Evin prison, where they had been held for their coverage of the 2022 death in custody of Mahsa Amini. Images of the two journalists smiling outside the prison, without a mandatory headscarf, widely circulated on social media. The Mizan website, which is affiliated with the judiciary, said the images showed <the women without hijab> and <a new case was filed against the defendants> as a result. In October, the 36-year-old Mohammadi and Hamedi, 31, were sentenced to 12 and 13 years in prison, respectively, on charges including collaborating with the US government, colluding to commit crimes against national security, and engaging in propaganda activities against the Islamic Republic. They were temporarily released on $200,000 bail and barred from leaving the country pending an appeal of their sentences. Authorities cracked down hard on the monthslong protests sparked by Amini's death in September 2022 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, including dozens of journalists, 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/women/124345-hijab-case-filed-against-journalists-day-after-release/ 
Comment by G. d'A.: Not wearing a hijab is NOT A CRIME!!! Women are free to choose what to wear.

Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 13 Jan 2024
<<Former Kurdish Political Prisoner Bapir Barzeh Arrested for Sentence Execution
Bapir Barzeh, a civil activist and former political prisoner from Piranshahr, has been arrested and taken to prison to serve a four-year and six-month sentence. His recent arrest took place during the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi movement. According to a report received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights on Saturday, January 13, 2024, Bapir Barzeh, residing in <Chianeh> village in Piranshahr, was arrested and transferred to Naghadeh Central Prison following a summons by the sentence execution branch of the city. Bapir Barzeh had previously received a four-year and six-month detention sentence for <membership in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan,> as per the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Arrested during the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi movement on Tuesday, December 22, 2022, Bapir Barzeh was released on bail temporarily until the conclusion of proceedings on Thursday, January 26, 2023. This former political prisoner has a history of previous arrests due to his activities, facing substantial judicial sentences.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2024/01/former-kurdish-political-prisoner-bapir-barzeh-arrested-for-sentence-execution


Farangis Dargahi and Sara Shapuri
NCRI - Womens committee -13 Jan 2024 - in Women's News
<<Farangis Dargahi and Sara Shapuri Are Summoned to Court
The 105th Branch of the Criminal Court Two of Miandoab has summoned Farangis Dargahi and Sara Shapuri to report to this court on January 27, 2024. Miandoab is in West Azerbaijan Province, in northwestern Iran. They had been previously arrested and interrogated during the 2022 protests by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence. Farangis Dargahi is charged with <propaganda against the state,> and <encouraging people to hold illegal gatherings against the state.> Her daughter, Sara Shapuri is also charged with <removing her veil,> <propaganda against the state,> and <encouraging people to hold illegal anti-government gatherings.> Farangis Dargahi and Sara Shapuri were released on heavy bail.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2024/01/13/farangis-dargahi-sara-shapuri/


Everyday battle
Jinha - Womens News Agency 12 Jan 2024
<<HRW: Everyday life in Iran feels like a battle with a corrupt, autocratic government
Iranian authorities show no signs of ending their brutal repression of peaceful dissent across the country one year after nationwide protests that erupted in September 2022, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2024.
News Center- Human Rights Watch (HRW) released its 740-page World Report 2024 on Thursday by reviewing human rights practices in more than 100 countries. Iranian authorities show no signs of ending their brutal repression of peaceful dissent across the country one year after nationwide protests that erupted after the death in morality police custody of Mahsa Jina Amini in September 2022, HRW said in its report. <The authorities have also consolidated their efforts to increase punitive measures against women who defy compulsory hijab laws and businesses that do not enforce them on their premises,> the report said. Iranian authorities have killed hundreds of protesters, arrested thousands of people, and tortured scores of detainees, including women and children. Human Rights Watch 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 have played leading roles during the protests. <Human rights groups are investigating the killing of more than 500 people, including 69 children, during the protests. 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.>
'Everyday life in Iran feels like a battle with corrupt, autocratic government'
<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.>
'Iranian authorities substantially increased the rates of executions in 2023'
The report also drew attention to the increase in the rate of executions in Iran. <Iranian authorities substantially increased the rates of executions in 2023. During the 2022 protests, judicial authorities drastically increased the use of vaguely defined national security charges that could carry the death penalty against protesters, including for allegedly injuring others and destroying public property. Following grossly unfair trials in which many defendants did not have access to the lawyer of their choice, Iranian authorities issued 25 death sentences in connection to the protests. As of September 20, the authorities executed seven people, though the Supreme Court overturned 11 other cases.> >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/hrw-everyday-life-in-iran-feels-like-a-battle-with-a-corrupt-autocratic-government-34436?page=1


Sho'leh Shahidi, with her children, Shayan and Faran Sanai
Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 12 Jan 2024
<<Bojnord: Three Members of Baha'i Family Sentenced to Prison
Sho'leh Shahidi, a Baha'i adherent, along with her children, Shayan and Faran Sanai, received a combined prison sentence of four years and eight months, along with a 100 million toman fine from the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Bojnord, North Khorasan province. According to a report received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, Faran Sanai was sentenced to two years and six months in prison, Shayan Sanai received a two-year and two-month sentence, paid a 50 million toman fine, Additionally, Sho'leh Shaidi was sentenced to pay a 50 million toman fine. These verdicts, issued by the 1st Branch of the Revolutionary Court in Bojnord, were based on charges including deviant educational and propaganda activities contrary to or disturbing the Sharia of Islam. In addition, each individual was sentenced to ten years of deprivation of social services, and their personal belongings, including laptops, tablets, phones, photo frames, and books, were confiscated. Sho'leh Shahidi, Faran, and Shayan Sanai were initially arrested on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, by the security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Bojnord. They were temporarily released on August 4 of the same year after posting bail. Notably, Sho'leh Shahidi had previously been arrested and tried due to her activities.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2024/01/bojnord-three-members-of-bahai-family-sentenced-to-prison


Sakineh Parvaneh
NCRI - Womens committee -12 Jan 2024 - in Women's News
<<Sakineh Parvaneh, a Kurdish Political prisoner, deprived of access to medical services
Kurdish political prisoner, Sakineh Parvaneh, is deprived of access to medical services. Ms. Parvaneh has been detained in the Central Prison of Mashhad (Vakilabad Prison) since March, serving her 7.5 years of imprisonment. She has also faced restrictions in her telephone calls with her family over the past few months. The authorities of the Central Prison of Mashhad have restricted her phone contacts to short calls in the presence of prison guards and provided that she speaks in Farsi with her family. The last time Sakineh Parvaneh was arrested was on April 4, 2023. She had been arrested less than a month before, on March 7, and released after four days. The 5th Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Mashhad has condemned political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh to 7.5 years of imprisonment for insulting Ali Khamenei, the mullahs' supreme leader, <propaganda against the state,> and <having contact and cooperation with foreign media.> Judge Mansouri informed her of her sentence on September 25, 2023. The judge has reportedly said that 2.5 years from her previous sentence will be added to the new verdict.
Background on the resistant Kurdish prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh
Sakineh Parvaneh was born in 1988. In early autumn of 2019, security agents arrested her because she had visited her family in Soleimaniya, in the Kurdistan of Iraq. They took her to the Iran-Iraq border. She was detained for ten days in the detention centers of Marivan and Sanandaj. She was subsequently transferred to the Evin Prison in Tehran. She underwent harsh interrogations under psychological and physical torture in Ward 2A, Ward 209, and the women’s ward of Evin. During this time, she was deprived of having visitations. In March 2020, after she wrote graffiti on the walls of Evin, she was sent to the notorious Qarchak Prison, where she was detained in solitary confinement for four days with handcuffs and foot cuffs. Then, prison guards took her to Aminabad Psychiatric Hospital in Shahr-e Rey. After 25 days in Aminabad, the resistant Kurdish prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh was returned to the quarantine ward of Qarchak Prison. On May 25, 2020, she went on a hunger strike to protest, being sentenced to 5 years in prison, banned for two years from membership in political groups, and detained in conditions where the category of their crimes did not separate prisoners. On July 4, 2020, she was returned to Evin Prison while bearing scars and bruises from being beaten. In August, she was sentenced to another two years for <rioting in prison.> The resistant Kurdish prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh went on a hunger strike several times in Evin. On October 27, 2020, she was relocated from the women's ward of Evin to the Prison of Quchan. She was sent to a solitary cell on Monday, November 9, 2020, in response to her hunger strike since October 31 in protest of her possible relocation again to the Prison of Isfahan. On the eighth day of her hunger strike, she sewed her lips. But in these same conditions, she was brutalized and beaten by guards. On December 13, 2020, Sakineh Parvaneh was taken from Quchan Prison to the Central Prison of Mashhad, where she was deprived of family visitation and banned from calling home. The IRGC pressured Ms. Parvaneh to make forced confessions against herself. The resistant Kurdish prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh was serving the fourth year of her sentence when she was released from Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad on February 15, 2023. According to reports on social media, the IRGC confiscated all Sakineh Parvaneh's registration documents about four years ago. Despite her release from prison, her documents were not returned to her. As a result, Ms. Parvaneh faced difficulties in basic aspects of her life, such as renting a house, finding employment, purchasing a mobile phone SIM card, and other essential matters.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2024/01/12/sakineh-parvaneh/

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