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Welcome to cryfreedom.net, formerly known as Womens Liberation Front.  A website that hopes to draw and keeps your attention for  babout the 21th. century feminist revolution as well especially the Zan, Zendegi, Azadi uprising in Iran and the and the uprisings of our sisters in other parts of the Middle-east. This online magazine that started December 2019 is published every week. Thank you for your time and interest.
Gino d'Artali
indept investigative journalist
radical feminist and women's rights activist 
 


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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

And also
Read all about the assasination of the 22 year young Jina Mahsa Amini (Kurdistan-Iran) and the start of the Zan, Zendegi, Azadi (Women, life, freedom) revolution in Iran  2022-'24
and the latest news about the 'Women Live Freedom' Revolution per month in
2024: March wk1 -- Feb wk5 part3 -- Feb wk5 part2 -- overview per month
and 2023: Dec wk 5 part 2 -- Dec wk 5 -- Dec week 4-3 -- Dec wk3 -- Dec 17 - 10 -- Dec week 2 and 1 -- click here for a menu overview November - Januari 2023


Tribute to KIAN PIRFALA, 9 years old and victim of the Islamic Republic's savagery 10 years ago. Update December 25, 2023

And
For all topics below
that may hopefully interest you click on the image:
February 19, 2024: Noteworthy by G. d'A.: concerning the below topics from here on all news will be embedded in either the actual news coverage or in a headlined title with a link to the full report or to ' The dance 'round the gallows' news.

'THE NO-HIJABIS

Updated February 5, 2024

'BIOLOGICAL
TERROR ATTACKS
AGAINST SCHOOLGIRLS'

Updated October 10, 2023

'IRANIAN JOURNALISTS
UNDER SIEGE'

Updated February 5, 2024  

'BLINDING
AS A WEAPON'

Updated January 3, 2024

'THE HANGING SPREE'

Updated Januari 24, 2024

CLICK HERE ON HOW TO READ ALL ON THIS PAGE 

Here we are to enter THE IRANIAN WOMEN'S REVOLUTIONISTS against
the supreme leader, the arch-reactionary Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his placeman president, Ebrahim Raisi. The message of the women when he visited a university is plain: <give way or get lost> in 2023.
IN MEMORY OF ASRA PANAHI (16)- JHINA MAHSA AMINI (22) - NIKA SHAKARAMI (16), SARINA ESMAILZADEH (16) HADIS NAJAFI (20), AND MORE WOMEN WHO WERE ASSASINATED SO FAR BY THE IRANIAN AXIS OF EVIL.
  Click here for a total list so far

'Facing Faces and Facts 1-2'  (2022) to commemorate the above named and more and food for thought and inspiration to fight on.
and 'Facing Faces & Facts 3' edited December 2022/March 2023

Dear reader, from here on the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' pages menu will look a bit different and this to avoid too many pop-ups ,meaning the underlined period  in yellow tells you in what period you are and click on another underlinded period to go there. However, when needed a certain topic will be in yellow meaning it's a link to go that topic and will open in a new window. If you dissagree about any change feel more than free to let me know what you think at info@cryfreedom.net
This does not count for the  above topics which, when clicked on, will still appear in a pop-up window and for now the 'old' lay-out 'till I worked that all out. Thank you. Gino d'Artali
(Updates March 8, 2024)

December 31, 2023 - Preface about the below 3 heroines of Iran by Gino d'Artali : Beacons of hope and inspiration on the road towards a long and free Iran . * Jina Amini, our sister/daughter who martyred herself for freedom; *Narges Mohammadi, our sister and as I call her 'mother of a free Iran' and winner of the Nobel Prize of Freedom 2023 and sentenced five times to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes but who refuses to give in to the mullahs' regime to wear a hijab or bow to their demands and therefore is refused medical care although needing it badly and bringing her live in danger but says "Victory is not easy, but it is certain"  * and Maryam Akbari Monfared, our sister who's encarcerated since 15 years and refuses to bow down to the mullahs saying "Finally, one day, I will sing the song of victory from the summit of the mountain, like the sun. Tomorrow belongs to us"
Read all about them here and let them inspire you on your road towards a long and free Iran or as we say in the West: 'Three strikes and the mullahs' regime is out'
Be the finalizing strike dear and brave dissent
 
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UPDATES OF THE UPRISING  AND REVOLUTION AROUND THE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF JINA AMINI IN CUSTODY OF THE REGIME'S ATTEMPT AND CRUELTY TO TRY AND CRUSH IT. 

Articles about
<<Mahsa Amini's Father: <Everything They Have Said and Shown is Lies>
and
WHO JINA AMINI REALLY WAS.
By Diako Alavi, a journalist from Saqqez and family friend of Mahsa Amini 
and
Jina Amini, the face of Irans uprising and revolution:
www.cryfreedom.net/the-face-of-irans-protests.htm
November 15, 2023 - <<Iranian Woman Arrested on Jinas' Anniversary Tells Her Story...>
December 12, 2023 - <<EU Remembers Mahsa Amini at Sakharov Prize Awarding Ceremony...>

December 23, 2023 - <<Saleh Nikbakht Interrogated at Khomeini Airport and the Sakharov Prize confiscated by Iranian security forces...>
 





















We all grief for the loss of our sister / daughter of Iran Armita Gevarnand:
 


Read her story here

AND

Updates of Jina Aminis' Revolution:
Part 16: December 28 - 16, 2023

Part 17: January 23 - 6, 2024
Part 18: March 4 - February 8, 2024
   

and links to earlier parts
 
Gino d'artali's opinion: We mourn AND fight!

And read also

ONGOING 'TILL VICTORY:
Jan 2024: 'WOMAN, LIFE, FREEDOM'
REVOLUTION

 

 

 

 

A to VICTORY tribute to
NARGES MOHAMMADI
Update February 26, 2024
"The Islamic Republic deserves national sanctions and global condemnation. Boycotting the elections of the dictatorial religious regime is not just a political imperative but also a moral duty for those seeking freedom and justice in Iran."

Update February 9, 2024
"Mohammadi urges the world body to "declare gender and sex apartheid as a crime against humanity in international legal documents. For decades, Iranian women's lives have faced various forms of sex and gender-based discrimination under the shadow of the Islamic Republic government,"

"Victory is not easy, but it is certain"
watch it here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LAMPz57Aqw 
Updates:
January 23, 2024
"The more of us they lock-up the stronger we become"...

Click here for a news-overview from January 15, 2024 'till October 31, 2023
XXX

 

 

 

 



JINA AMINI'S VOICE IS ALSO HEARD
And do read the incredible update!

despite the mullahs' regime to force it down!
And her mother speaks out loud and clear

 


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 


MARJAM AKBARI MONFARED

Dec 30, 2023: Not bowing for the mullahs' regime she says: "Finally, one day, I will sing the song of victory from the summit of the mountain, like the sun. Tomorrow belongs to us"


 
 

February 26, 2024

The Plight of Zeinab Jalalian: A Woman’s Struggle for Freedom and Justice

February 22, 2024 - RED ALERT
Leaked Documents Give Glimpse of Repression in Iran
February 16, 2024


Click here for more stories of Heroines of Iran 
 

February 13, 2024

Forough Farrokhzad, a poet for all ages

Please do read the following articles with mostly very 'Inspiring Stories' - click on the underlined topics -
Updates
4 March, 2024: My vote is regime change
and The-Womens-Fight-4-Freedom-in-2023 
and  Constitutional Guarantees v.s Discriminatory Realities
and Report on Women's Rights Violations Feb 24
and
Arrests by irgc forces
March 5, 2024: Assault on baha'i rights
earlier:
26 Feb, 2024: The death of prisoners under torture
 and 
Click here for previous inspiring stories and  articles incl. Red Alerts
 

'The mullahs' regime / OHCHR* gallows' dance'

Copyright: Walter Draesner
March 2 - February 22, 2024
Saman Yasin, jailed Iranian rapper: "Take my life too and be done with it"

February 25, 2024

"Don't tell my Mama"
February 20 - 15, 2024
Radio-silence? The never-ending hanging soap aka 'reality-show'.
*OHCHR - UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Click here for earlier reports

Click here for the latest news of the
'Woman, Life, Freedom'
revolution

March 1 - February 29, 2024
<<Sporadic Violence Breaks Out During Iran’s Polling Day...
and <<Iranian Conscript Takes His Own Life as Military Suicides Rise...
and <<Jailed Iranian Singer’s Phone Access Cut for Urging Election Boycott...
and <<Grammy-winning Iranian Protest Singer Sentenced to Jail...
and <<Iranian Government Sends Ballot Boxes to Flooded Province—Instead of Aid...
and <<Two 17-Year-Old Kurdish Minors Detained by Iranian Authorities
and also will bring you through the rest of Februari 2024

 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.


Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 4 March 2024
<<Hengaw's Monthly Report on Women’s Rights Violations in Iran - February 2024
Based on the statistics registered in the Statistics and Documents Center of the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, at least one woman was executed in the prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran in February 2024. Also, nine female activists were arrested, and nine were sentenced to imprisonment by the Iranian judicial system. Last month, at least 20 cases of femicide were recorded in different cities in Iran.
The death sentences carried out for women in Iran:
Last month, at least one woman was executed in the prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran, adding to the 22 women executed last year. According to this report, on January 21, 2023, the death sentence of a 41-year-old woman from Tabriz named Hajar Atabaki, previously sentenced to death for drug-related charges, was carried out in Qazvin Central Prison. The news of her execution was announced in the media about a month later, in February. According to the laws governing women in the Islamic Republic of Iran, women in Iran not only do not have any kind of protective law regarding domestic violence, but the text of the law itself approves the context for all kinds of violence, including sexual, physical, economic, and psychological violence against women.
Arrest of 9 women in February:
According to Hengaw's statistics, at least nine female activists and one LGBTQ+ activist were arrested in different cities of Iran during February 2024. Among the arrested were a student and a journalist, with seven of those arrested already transferred to prison to serve their sentences.
The women arrested in February include:
• Nasrin Hasani from Bojnord
• Zhila Hejbari from Marivan
• A. Naroei from Zahedan
• Noushin Mesbah from Mashhad
• Mina Karami from Shiraz
• Roya Sabet from Shiraz
• Raufeh Mirbagheri from Ramsar
• Nahid Khodajo from Tehran
• Sarina Jahani from Shiraz
Additionally, Elham Choubdar, an LGBTQ+ activist from Urmia, was arrested and transferred to the central prison of the city to serve her sentence.
Imprisonment Sentences for Women Activists:
Based on statistics from the Statistics and Documents Center of the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, in February 2024, at least nine women activists in different cities of Iran, including Forough Taghipour and Marzieh Farsi, two political prisoners incarcerated in Evin Prison, were sentenced to imprisonment.
According to the report, these nine activists have collectively received 44 years in prison from the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The individuals and their respective sentences are as follows:
1. Samira Ahmadi, a Kurdish activist from Saqqez, sentenced to 3 years in prison.
2. Fatemeh Sheikhi, a Kurdish activist from Abdanan, sentenced to 1 year in prison.
3. Forough Taghipour, an activist from Tehran, sentenced to 15 years in prison.
4. Marzieh Farsi, an activist from Tehran, sentenced to 15 years in prison.
5. Narges Mansouri, an activist from Tehran, sentenced to 3 years in prison.
6. Shakila Monfared, an activist from Tehran, sentenced to 15 months in prison.
7. Saba Azarpeyk, a journalist from Tehran, sentenced to 3 years in prison.
8. Kimiya Fathizadeh, a journalist from Sirjan, sentenced to 6 months in prison.
9. Sarina Jahani, an activist from Shahryar, sentenced to 2 years and 3 months in prison.
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, arresting and convicting women is a common practice of discrimination. The pressure on female activists increased during the Women, Life, Freedom (Jin, Jiyan, Azadi) movement. In its institutionalized form, the Islamic Republic has consistently worked to limit women's access to social, political, and human rights arenas. Gender apartheid policies in Iran are evident in the forms of sexual and gender segregation policies, as well as the criminalization of sexual and gender minorities' identities, which marginalizes them.
20 cases of femicide were recorded in February
Based on the statistics registered in the Statistics and Documents Center of the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, in February 2024, at least 20 women were killed in different cities of Iran, 16 of whom were killed by their close relatives, including their husbands, ex-husbands, fathers, and brothers. As per the report, 4 women were killed by other people, 7 women were killed by close family members, and 9 women were killed by their husbands or ex-husbands.
According to this report, at least 4 cases, equivalent to 20% of all the women killed, were victims of <honor killing.>.
Femicide statistics by province:
Tehran province: 9 cases
Isfahan Province: 2 cases
Fars province: 2 cases
Lorestan province: 1 case
Alborz, Razavi Khorasan, Khuzestan, Gilan, and Mazandaran provinces: 1 case each
In any society, femicide is regarded as the most extreme form of misogyny. Femicide only makes up a portion of the murders that are linked to honor killings. Laws, misogynistic relationships, and patriarchy are the main causes of femicide in societies. According to Hengaw's human rights reports, there were 122 recorded femicides in Iran in the year prior, and a large number of these killings were carried out by the victims' close relatives. Laws and attitudes that promote misogyny and hatred towards women normalize the act of killing women, making it easier for predators to carry out their crimes with fewer repercussions.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2024/03/hengaws-monthly-report-on-womens-rights-violations-in-iran-february-2024

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