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 - 26 Jan 2024
<< <No To Execution> Hunger-Strike Movement Spreads Across Iran and Abroad
A sharp rise in executions in Iran has sparked a passionate call from Iranian civil society to abolish the death penalty in Iran, with a growing number of activists in and outside of the country announcing plans to go on hunger strike to make their voices heard. The campaign has grown since imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi said she and dozens of other women inmates in Tehran's Evin prison would launch a hunger strike on January 25, following this week's execution of a young protester who was diagnosed with a mental condition. <The incarcerated women stand resolute, determined to etch the names of the executed into our collective consciousness,> according to a joint statement posted on Mohammadi's Instagram account. <They strive not only to preserve the memory of those lost but also to spare the countless lives hanging in the balance within the prisons of the Islamic Republic.> As the hashtag #NoToExecution was becoming increasingly popular among Iranian social media users, 111 union and labor activists issued a statement on January 25, announcing they were joining the hunger strike to <express our dissent against the government's misguided practices and pervasive injustices.> <Executions have claimed countless innocent lives, an irreversible act that warrants no remedy,> said the signatories, who also denounced <inhumane state-sanctioned violence> and <the arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of free and proud individuals.> Dozens of Iranian journalists, lawyers and prisoners, including jailed artists Toomaj Salehi and Mehdi Yarrahi, said they would also join the hunger strike. Foreign-based activists such as Masih Alinejad and Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the US-based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), have also said they would join the protest action. <Despite the risk of intensified persecution by the government, Iranian civil society is boldly and unequivocally demanding the abolition of the death penalty,> Ghaemi said in a statement. <Executions, a longstanding and favored tool of the Islamic Republic to suppress dissent, have surged since nationwide anti-state protests erupted in September 2022,> he added. <Yet these state-sanctioned killings are proving ineffective at muzzling calls for justice, and despite the risks, we witness a mounting outcry from within Iran for an end to these hangings.> The execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou on January 23 was widely condemned by activists and rights groups who noted that the 23-year-old man suffered from bipolar disorder and that the Supreme Court had struck down the initial death sentence ruling. Following an unfair trial, Ghobadlou was sentenced to death for allegedly killing a police officer during nationwide protests in September 2022. He is the ninth person to be executed in connection with the popular uprising. Amnesty International said Ghobadlou's execution marked a <plunge into new realms of cruelty> by the country's leadership. France's Foreign Ministry said it <adds to the many other serious and unacceptable violations of fundamental rights and freedoms committed by the Iranian authorities.> UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk expressed alarm over the <sharp spike> in the use of the death penalty in Iran, and insisted that <the right to due process and a fair trial for all defendants [in Iran] must be adhered to.> Iranian human rights groups say the Islamic Republic executed more than 700 prisoners last year.
Human Rights Watch said at least 11 inmates in Iran are at <imminent risk> of execution, most of whom are Kurdish.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/124714-no-to-execution-hunger-strike-movement-spreads-across-iran-and-abroad/

Iranwire - 26 Jan 2024
<<Iran's Top Sunni Cleric Criticizes Body Overseeing Elections
As Iran prepares for parliamentary polls, the country's most prominent Sunni cleric has criticized the work of the Guardian Council, a hard-line constitutional body that supervises elections and vets candidates. Iranians will be called to polling stations on March 1 to choose between candidates running for seats in the 290-seat parliament and the 88-member Assembly of Experts, a chamber of theologians that appoints the Islamic Republic's supreme leader. A low turnout is expected, with the Guardian Council having already disqualified thousands of candidates in both elections, including former President Hassan Rouhani. Molavi Abdulhamid, the Sunni Friday prayer leader of the southeastern city of Zahedan, said in his Friday sermon that the entire electoral process has been placed in the hands of the council members, who are directly and indirectly appointed by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Pointing to <many problems> in the Islamic Republic's constitution, the outspoken cleric reiterated his call for constitutional changes. <This legislation was ratified 44 years ago by the Assembly of Experts, and the majority of its members have since passed away and are now in the purgatory,> he said. <A new generation has come and this generation is different from the previous one, but the constitution has not changed.> Molavi drew attention to the mass disqualification of candidates, emphasizing that <the vision of officials should not be restricted to one religion, ethnicity and faction.> The Guardian Council was created by Khamenei. It consists of six clerics appointed directly by him and an additional six jurists who receive approval from members of parliament based on a list given by the judiciary chief, himself appointed by the Islamic Republic's leader. In previous elections, the council disqualified about half of the candidates on spurious grounds. Turnout in the last parliamentary election was about 42 percent, the lowest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and prospects for a higher participation in March are dim.
Iranians appear apathetic about the vote, the first since anti-establishment protests rocked Iran in 2022-2023.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/124722-irans-top-sunni-cleric-criticizes-body-overseeing-elections/
Opinion by G. d'A.: I fully agree so DO NOT VOTE and with it say 'Give way or go away'.

Iranwire - 26 Jan 2024
<<Tehran Student Handed Prison Term Amid Clampdown on Universities
The Revolutionary Court of Karaj has sentenced a Master's student in economics at the University of Tehran to one year in prison for engaging in propaganda against the Islamic Republic, as the authorities are intensifying their efforts to control the universities' population which has been at the forefront of the 2022 uprising. Parisa Salehi was also handed a two-year travel ban and a two-year exile, along with a ban on online activities. The student said that her and her family's homes had been searched twice by agents of the Karaj Intelligence Department in the past few months. The moves are seen as part of the authorities' broader strategy to silence student protesters from the Women, Life, Freedom movement and prevent further demonstrations in university campuses. Students at Tehran's Al-Zahra University say security officials are scrutinizing the work of art students, compiling a list of names associated with creations <representing nudity and unconventional subjects.> Since nationwide protests erupted in September 2022, authorities have been clamping down on any sign of dissent at universities with arrests, intrusive high-tech surveillance, the dismantling of student organizations and purging of professors. Many students have faced sentences such as imprisonment and flogging, while others have been expelled from universities or suspended from their studies.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/124712-tehran-student-handed-prison-term-amid-clampdown-on-universities/


Iranwire - 26 Jan 2024
<< <No To Execution> Hunger-Strike Movement Spreads Across Iran and Abroad
A sharp rise in executions in Iran has sparked a passionate call from Iranian civil society to abolish the death penalty in Iran, with a growing number of activists in and outside of the country announcing plans to go on hunger strike to make their voices heard. The campaign has grown since imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi said she and dozens of other women inmates in Tehran's Evin prison would launch a hunger strike on January 25, following this week's execution of a young protester who was diagnosed with a mental condition. <The incarcerated women stand resolute, determined to etch the names of the executed into our collective consciousness,> according to a joint statement posted on Mohammadi's Instagram account. <They strive not only to preserve the memory of those lost but also to spare the countless lives hanging in the balance within the prisons of the Islamic Republic.> As the hashtag #NoToExecution was becoming increasingly popular among Iranian social media users, 111 union and labor activists issued a statement on January 25, announcing they were joining the hunger strike to <express our dissent against the government's misguided practices and pervasive injustices.> <Executions have claimed countless innocent lives, an irreversible act that warrants no remedy,> said the signatories, who also denounced <inhumane state-sanctioned violence> and <the arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of free and proud individuals.> Dozens of Iranian journalists, lawyers and prisoners, including jailed artists Toomaj Salehi and Mehdi Yarrahi, said they would also join the hunger strike. Foreign-based activists such as Masih Alinejad and Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the US-based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), have also said they would join the protest action. <Despite the risk of intensified persecution by the government, Iranian civil society is boldly and unequivocally demanding the abolition of the death penalty,> Ghaemi said in a statement. <Executions, a longstanding and favored tool of the Islamic Republic to suppress dissent, have surged since nationwide anti-state protests erupted in September 2022,> he added. <Yet these state-sanctioned killings are proving ineffective at muzzling calls for justice, and despite the risks, we witness a mounting outcry from within Iran for an end to these hangings.>

Mohammad Ghobadlou
The execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou on January 23 was widely condemned by activists and rights groups who noted that the 23-year-old man suffered from bipolar disorder and that the Supreme Court had struck down the initial death sentence ruling. Following an unfair trial, Ghobadlou was sentenced to death for allegedly killing a police officer during nationwide protests in September 2022. He is the ninth person to be executed in connection with the popular uprising. Amnesty International said Ghobadlou's execution marked a <plunge into new realms of cruelty> by the country's leadership. France's Foreign Ministry said it <adds to the many other serious and unacceptable violations of fundamental rights and freedoms committed by the Iranian authorities.> UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk expressed alarm over the <sharp spike> in the use of the death penalty in Iran, and insisted that <the right to due process and a fair trial for all defendants [in Iran] must be adhered to.>
Iranian human rights groups say the Islamic Republic executed more than 700 prisoners last year. Human Rights Watch said at least 11 inmates in Iran are at <imminent risk> of execution, most of whom are Kurdish.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/124714-no-to-execution-hunger-strike-movement-spreads-across-iran-and-abroad/


Raheleh Rahmipour
Jinha - Womens News Agency 26 Jan 2024
<<Raheleh Rahmipour transferred to hospital after heart attack
Raheleh Rahmipour, a political prisoner in Evin prison, was transferred to hospital after she had a heart attack.
News Center- Raheleh Rahmipour, a political prisoner serving her five-year sentence in Evin prison, was transferred to hospital on Wednesday after she had a heart attack, jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nargess Mohammadi wrote on Instagram. Raheleh Rahmipour, a member of the families of those who were executed in the 1980s in Iran, was sentenced to six years and four months in prison on June 16, 2020 by Branch 15 of the Iranian Islamic Revolution Court of Tehran. On November 19, 2023, she was summoned and referred to the Evin Prosecutor's Office to serve a five-year prison sentence. Her brother Hossein Rahmipour was executed in 1983.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/raheleh-rahmipour-transferred-to-hospital-after-heart-attack-34508


112 union activists on hunger strike
Jinha - Womens News Agency 26 Jan 2024
<<112 union activists go on hunger strike today to protest executions in Iran
112 union activists announced on Thursday that they would go on a hunger strike on Friday (January 26) to protest recent executions in Iran.
News Center- 122 union activists, including teacher activist Sara Siahpour, Free Union Workers of Iran (FUWI) vice-president Parvin Mohammadi and teacher activist Nasrin Karimi, announced in a statement on Thursday that they would go on a hunger strike on Friday (January 26) to protest the recent executions in Iran. The activists demand an unconditional halt to the death penalty. <As a group of intellectuals, union activists and labor activists, we will go on a hunger strike on January 26 to protest unfair trials, executions and injustices in Iran to be in solidarity with 61 female political prisoners, who started a hunger strike on January 25. We demand an unconditional halt to the death penalty,> said the statement.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/112-union-activists-go-on-hunger-strike-today-to-protest-executions-in-iran-34507?page=1

Iranwire - 25 Jan 2024
<<UN Rights Chief Alarmed by <Sharp Spike> in Use of Death Penalty in Iran
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk says he is alarmed by the <sharp spike> in the use of the death penalty in Iran, including the executions of two men earlier this week. <The right to due process and a fair trial for all defendants must be adhered to. I am also deeply disturbed by reports of forced confessions obtained under duress. Such confessions should not be invoked as evidence in any proceedings,> Turk said in a statement on January 24. On January 23, Mohammed Ghobadlou became the ninth person to be executed in connection to the 2022 nationwide protests. Farhad Salimi, a Kurdish man, was executed on the same day after spending 14 years in detention. The two executions brough to at least 54 the number of people put to death in the country so far this year. According to Human Rights Watch, at least 11 prisoners in Iran are at risk of imminent execution. Turk urged the government to enact an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty, with a view to abolishing the practice, which the UN official said <is not consistent with the most fundamental of rights - the right to life.> Nearly three quarters of the countries in the world have abolished or introduced a moratorium on the death penalty either in law or in practice.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/124684-un-rights-chief-alarmed-by-sharp-spike-in-use-of-death-penalty-in-iran/

Iranwire - 25 Jan 2024
<<Elderly Iranian Prisoner Hospitalized After Heart Attack
An Iranian woman prisoner in her 70s was rushed from Tehran's Evin prison to a hospital after suffering a heart attack. Raheleh Rahemipour underwent an electrocardiograph on January 25 before being taken to hospital, Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner imprisoned in Evin, said on her Instagram account. The incident occurred as dozens of women political prisoners in Evin went on a hunger strike to protest executions in Iran. According to Mohammadi, Rahemipour is among four political prisoners in the women's ward who are over 70 years old.
Rahemipour was put behind bars in November last year to serve a five-year prison sentence, despite suffering from a brain tumor and other ailments.
She had been prosecuted for speaking out against the extrajudicial execution of her brother in 1983.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/124685-elderly-iranian-prisoner-hospitalized-after-heart-attack/


61 female prisoners on hungerstrike
Jinha - Womens News Agency 25 Jan 2024
<<61 female political prisoners in Evin prison go on hunger strike
61 female political prisoners in Evin prison have started a hunger strike to protest the recent executions in Iran after Farhad Salimi and Mohammad Ghovadlou were hanged in Iran on Tuesday.
News Center- Mohammad Ghovadlou and Farhad Salimi, two political prisoners, were executed in Iran on January 23, 2024. 61 female political prisoners jailed in Evin prison have started a hunger strike today to protest the recent executions of protesters in Iran, including the execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimi.
Support from artists and politicians
Many people including Iranian singer and musician Mehdi Yarrahi, Iranian-American journalist and writer Masih Alinejad, Iranian journalist and poet Hassan Homayoun, Iranian political activist Sepideh Qoliyan, Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian and Iranian hip-hop artist Toomaj Salehi, have expressed their support to the female political prisoners on their social media accounts. Iranian singer and musician Mehdi Yarrahi, who was arrested in August 2023 after he released a song protesting Iran's mandatory hijab, announced on his social media account on Wednesday that he would start a hunger strike to support 61 female political prisoners. <Together with 61 ideological and political women prisoners of Evin, we will go on a hunger strike on Thursday in protest against the execution of #MohamadGhobadlou and to stop the executions,> his social media post said.
'Stop the executions'
Iranian hip-hop artist Toomaj Salehi, who was arrested in October 2022 and then sentenced to six years and three months in prison also announced that he would start a hunger strike to support the female political prisoners in Evin prison. <After the executions of Mohammad Ghovadlou and Farhad Salimi, Salehi will go on the hunger strike together with 61 political prisoners in the women's ward of Evin Prison. Stop the executions,> his official Twitter page said on Wednesday.
Havana Tamisi, wife of Kurdish political prisoner Mohsen Mazlum, also announced that she would go on the hunger strike. <As a freedom fighter and an opponent of the Iranian regime, I announce that I will go on the hunger strike together with 61 female political prisoners in Evin prison. Stop the executions in Iran,> she wrote on her social media account. Iranian journalist, poet and novelist Hassan Homayoun also announced that he would not eat or drink anything on Thursday, January 25, to support the hunger strike of 61 female political prisoners in Evin prison.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/61-female-political-prisoners-in-evin-prison-go-on-hunger-strike-34502?page=1


Zeinab Jalalian
Jinha - Womens News Agency 25 Jan 2024
<<Zeinab Jalalian goes on hunger strike in solidarity with 61 female political prisoners
Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian starts a hunger strike today in solidarity with 61 female political prisoners in Evin prison, who go on a hunger strike today to protest the recent executions of protesters in Iran.
News Center- The Kurdistan Human Rights Network has announced that Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian, who is behind bars in Yazd prison, will go on a hunger strike in solidarity with 61 female political prisoners, who go on a hunger strike today to protest the recent executions of protesters in Iran, including the execution of young protester Mohammad Ghobadlou. <Although Zeinab Jalalian has been held in solitary confinement in Yazd prison and her phone calls are severely restricted, she announced that she <would go on a hunger strike on Thursday to be in solidarity with 61 female political prisoners in Evin prison,> the Kurdistan Human Rights Network said. After Mohammad Ghobadlou was executed on Tuesday (January 23, 2024), 61 female political prisoners jailed in Tehran's Evin prison announced that they would go on a hunger strike on Thursday to protest the recent executions in Iran, including the execution of young protester Mohammad Ghovadlou. Zeynab Jalalian is a Kurdish women's rights activist, who was sentenced to death by an Islamic Revolutionary Court on charges of <enmity against God> in 2008.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/zeinab-jalalian-goes-on-hunger-strike-in-solidarity-with-61-female-political-prisoners-34500?page=1 

Iranwire - 25 Jan 2024
<<Death Penalty Upheld for Iranian Kurdish Political Prisoner
The Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has upheld the death penalty for Yousef Ahmadi, a Kurdish political prisoner accused of <waging armed rebellion.> Ahmadi is currently held in Sanandaj prison, in Kurdistan province. According to reports, three other Sunni Kurdish defendants in the same case - Mohammad Karimi, Baset Karimi and Mohammad Faizi - received prison sentences of 25, 20, and 20 years, respectively, on charges of <assisting in rebellion.> The authorities have intensified their use of the death penalty in the aftermath of the nationwide protests that erupted in September 2022 to crush dissent and terrorize the population. Two men were executed this week after what Amnesty International called <egregiously unfair> trials marred by torture allegations. Earlier on January 25, many Iranian activists joined dozens of women political prisoners held in Tehran's Evin prison in launching a hunger strike to protest executions in the country.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/124673-death-penalty-upheld-for-iranian-kurdish-political-prisoner/


Femicide in Iran
NCRI - Womens committee - 24 Jan 2024 - in Women's News
<<Femicide in Iran Persists: Two More Women Become Its Heartbreaking Victims
Two more women become victims of femicide in Iran.
A middle-aged woman in Tehran was set ablaze by her husband and subsequently transferred to a medical center. Unfortunately, she lost her life due to the extent of her burns. On the night of Thursday, January 11, 2024, a man set fire to his 50-year-old wife, who tragically passed away after a day of hospitalization. According to the state-run Etemad daily, the woman shared with medical staff in her final hours, <My husband stopped the car, got out, approached my side, and said, 'Let's settle our problems. I will divorce you.' I replied that I had no problem. However, he brought out a bottle and doused me with some liquid. Initially, I thought it might be acid, but then I smelled the unmistakable odor of petrol. That's when he set me alight.> Several days after this horrifying incident, the woman's husband was arrested, and he confessed to the murder of his wife. Another tragic incident took place in the city of Kavar in Fars Province, southern Iran. A 25-year-old woman was murdered by her husband due to family differences, according to state media. The 35-year-old man killed his 25-year-old wife in their shared residence, using a firearm to perpetrate this heinous act. The murderer later took his own life with the same firearm in another location. Femicide in Iran is the worst form of the systematic violence against Iranian women. It has become prevalent to the government's failure to hand down adequate punishment to the perpetrators of these murders.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2024/01/24/femicide-in-iran-persists/
Note from G. d'A.: Since years now, if not decades, this is a huge, be it not recognized let alone dealt with, problem in Iran, and worldwide really, and the reason the more to really tackle it so I'll continue to pay more attention to it soon.

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