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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.
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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...>
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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
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A to VICTORY tribute to
NARGES MOHAMMADI
Update
March 20, 2024
Letter from Narges Mohammadi for
Newroz
March 8, 2024
"As much as the Woman, Life,
Freedom movement has bolstered women's awareness,
courage, and bravery, it has also resulted in
significant oppression and increased pressure on women
in Iran by the Islamic Republic..."
"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
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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
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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"
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Please do read
the following articles about heroines who risk live and
limb for the women-led revolution and no matter what
they'll never give in nor up! and other stories: click on the underlined
topics:
April 17, 2024:
Suppressing women brutally to
forestall any potential uprising
and
Iran Ramps Up Violence and
Repression Against Women and Girls
April 16, 2024:
Tortured and in Deteriorating
Health, Woman Activist in Iran Should be Immediately
Released
April 13, 2024:
Iran Intensifies Hijab
Enforcement but Disobedience grows
April 10, 2024:
Hijab Bill Triggers Outcry and
Bankruptcy Concerns
April 12, 2024:
Kowsar Eftekhari: He Smirked and
Shot at My Eye
and
Click here for previous inspiring
stories and articles
incl. Red Alerts |
'The mullahs' regime / OHCHR* gallows' dance'
Copyright: Walter Draesner
April 8 - 5, 2024
No halt of executions
April 4, 2024
Iran executes 853 people
*OHCHR - UN Office of
the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Click here for earlier reports |
April 16 - 13, 2024
<<Marjan Hajizadeh, 19,
hanged in the Central Prison of Zanjan, Iran...
and <<Atena Farghadani is
violently rearrested, detained in Qarchak Prison...
and <<Aman Jalalinejad, a
Teacher, Detained in Ahvaz by IRGC Forces: His Custody
Status Remains Unknown...
and <<Iranian Forces'
Direct Fire Claims Another Kolbar's Life in One Day...
and <<Repeated Detention of
Salman Olfati, Retired Teacher and Kurdish Civil Rights
Activist...
and <<Three Religious
Activists in Sanandaj Subject to Enforced Disappearance
for Nearly Two Years by Iranian Government...
and <<Iranian nurses hold
protests against forced overtime work and more...
and <<Iran Arrests Former
Goalkeeper's Wife, Daughter for Not Wearing Hijab...
and more news
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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.
Iranwire - 12 April 2024 - by AIDA GHAJAR
<<Kowsar Eftekhari: He Smirked and Shot at My Eye
As the protests raged on, an Islamic Republic riot squad officer smirked at
Kowsar Eftekhari. Moments later, he targeted her eye with pellets from his gun,
and blinded her in one eye. A year and a half since the start of the Woman,
Life, Freedom movement, her name resonates in the array of people who have
suffered human rights abuses in Iran. The 25-year-old Iranian woman never
envisaged finding herself a refugee in a foreign country. When I talked with
Eftekhari for the first time, the systematic targeting of protesters' eyes by
the Islamic Republic had not yet fully come to light.
Eftekhari had still only recently lost her eye. Victims were yet to find each
other and a sense of solidarity and their voices remained unheard. Over the past
year, I have stayed in touch with her, watching her progress and life, but our
most recent meeting in Berlin, Germany, was the first time we have met in
person. Together, we retraced her journey: from her upbringing in the city of
Mamaqan to pursuing education far from her family. From her involvement in the
Mahsa Amini movement, to the loss of her sight in one eye, and delivering
remarks at the United Nations in Geneva following the presentation of the
fact-finding mission's report and its determination that the Islamic Republic
had committed crimes against humanity.
Kowsar was born in Mamaqan 23 years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
She belongs to a generation that, despite the Islamic Republic's stringent
regulations, tried to lead a normal life, like young individuals in most parts
of the world. In her own words, <When I was growing up in Mamaqan, I was forced
to wear a chador, I never chose to wear a chador.> <In a way,> she adds, <I
broke the social taboos of Mamaqan. Basically, I stood up to my dad, and his
worries about me attending university.> <I've always hated the mandatory hijab,>
she says, <both in and out of university. It felt like I was being humiliated
for being a woman.> This same question of <Why?> echoed in the minds of millions
of Iranian women, who cried out Woman, Life, Freedom, on September 16, 2022,
following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. Kowsar's defiance extended beyond
just the mandatory hijab. She also challenged her father's concerns over her
pursuing university education away from her family. She departed from her
hometown and ventured alone to another city for her studies, enrolling at
Al-Zahra University in the capital Tehran. However, amidst this solitude, Kowsar
was detained for participating in the protests of 2022. During six days of
imprisonment, she experienced the depths of violence and cruelty perpetrated by
the Islamic Republic. It is an ordeal that still haunts her at times, an
experience fraught with sexual harassment and humiliation. <The jails are full
of political prisoners,> Kowsar says. <I was there only six days, but I saw many
others who had been there over a year and I know they are continuously tortured.
I was there just six days, I was tortured for [just] six days, and still feel
the pain.> <We were subjected to cavity searches three times a day, just to
humiliate us. It seemed they tormented us on purpose,> she adds. <They
forcefully checked inside our underwear. They humiliated us with this torture
several times a day. We had already been searched and had nothing, and we were
always under observation. They constantly interrogated and beat us. This was
just to abuse and belittle us, so even after we were released, we would remain
hopeless and helpless and never dare protest again.> <I constantly think about
it, and those thoughts still make me cry. That's how horrible those days were.
They treated us ruthlessly, even though we were innocent,> Kowsar says.
According to official statistics from the Islamic Republic, tens of thousands of
individuals were arrested during the nationwide protests of 2022.
Despite the traumatic experience of being arrested by the forces of the Islamic
Republic, Kowsar courageously joined the nationwide protests in 2022. It was
12:30 pm on October 12, 2022, when people began to gather, yet no slogans had
been chanted. Women had bravely removed their hijabs, prompting special unit
officers to beat them with batons, and to sporadically fire shots into the air.
Kowsar's heart raced with fear. <I was on Valiasr Street, around noon,> she
says. <There was a silent crowd. The only political aspect was that women were
showing their hair. The special forces were using batons to beat women not
wearing scarves. Then they fired machine guns in the air to terrorize the crowd
and cause panic.>
<My heart was beating 1,000 times a minute,> Kowsar adds. <I understood my fear
was because of the special forces, so I decided to stop, and confront my fear
and walk through the line of armed special forces who stood against this silent
crowd. I told myself I'd walk through and that nothing would happen to me for
not wearing my scarf.> But then: <I began walking through them, and suddenly,
one of the guards pushed me from behind and I went flying forward. I spun around
and said, 'What gives you the right to push me?' ... More guards came over. They
started cursing and insulting me. A plainclothes agent with them approached me,
he was one meter from me. He started shooting me with paintballs and he shouted
at me, as loud as he could, 'Leave! Or I'll shoot your eye out!' He repeated
this over and over.> Kowsar tried to run away, but fell, and from the ground she
saw two riot police officers dragging two women by their headscarves, strangling
both of them <as if they weren't human beings,> she says. <I told them to stop,>
Kowsar says, <I was lying on the ground, it was right after being shot by
paintballs. ... The man who threatened to shoot my eye appeared again. He
smirked, aimed at my face, and shot me in the eye.> As she recounted this
harrowing chapter of her life in front of our camera, she removed the eye patch
from her injured eye, revealing the cruel consequence of the Islamic Republic's
brutal crackdown. <My eye has been like this for a year, thanks to the Islamic
Republic> Kowsar says, almost in tears. <I used to have another beautiful
healthy eye ... It had vision, it worked perfectly, but he simply smirked and
shot at my eye. I’m sure he's seen me on social media. How does he feel about
this eye?>
<How can an Islamic Republic agent obey such an order? ... I might have only one
eye now but I can still fight against the Islamic Republic,> she adds. Kowsar
was rushed to the hospital - her eye throbbing with pain and burning with an
unbearable itch. The doctors cautioned her against touching her eye and notified
her father. Upon hearing the news of Kowsar's eye being shot, her father's jaw
locked for 30 minutes; he was in shock.
Kowsar's mother struggled to believe the grim reality until the medical staff
painstakingly explained the situation. Despite administering morphine and
painkillers, Kowsar writhed on the hospital bed, in excruciating pain and
nervous tension. <I kept hitting my bed out of frustration,> she says, <and I
began doubting if there was a god. How could anyone shoot out an eye on purpose?
Why was that man smirking?> Fear gripped Kowsar as she fretted over the
potential loss of her eyesight and even her looks. In her own words, she
experienced a state of <strange helplessness,> which began to subside only when
her father came from to Tehran. <It was a horrible night. I felt as if I had
been abandoned. What will happen to my eye? What will they do to me if I am
arrested?> Kowsar says. And then it seemed that detaining, torturing and
blinding Kowsar was not enough; her spirit and mental health needed more abuse.
Like many other injured individuals, Kowsar was coerced into visiting a mental
hospital for <evaluation.>
Admitted to hospital, Kowsar found compassion from many doctors and nurses, who
shed tears for her plight. But there were others whom Kowsar felt were devoid of
humanity. She was later sent to a mental institution for evaluation by
psychiatric doctors. <There were some horrible doctors there, who weren't as
empathetic as the others,> Kowsar says. <While I was sitting in the basement
waiting room of that asylum, for over two hours, I heard the screams of the
mental patients there and I myself was in a terrible state.> <They put me in a
room with two psychiatrists. They were the most disgusting doctors I have ever
seen. They were inhumane. How could they be so vile, and treat me so badly? Just
to gain the favor of the Islamic Republic?> she says. <They suddenly asked me if
I had suicidal thoughts. I asked, why should I? 'Did you never once consider
suicide, before the blinding?' I told them I had never contemplated suicide.
Then they asked about my parents. 'Have they ever thought about suicide? Have
they ever attempted it?' ... I could tell they were looking for an excuse to
lock me up in a place where I kept hearing horrible screams.> Theater and acting
had always been integral to Kowsar's life. After losing vision in her right eye,
the theater stage became her sanctuary. But the Islamic Republic swiftly banned
Kowsar from performing in several theaters and even barred her from continuing
her studies. She was on the cusp of obtaining her degree in Arabic literature
from the university - only to have it snatched away. <The same night I was
blinded,> Kowsar says, <I phoned one of my theater friends and told her I had
had so many hopes and creams, but they took them all away from me. My friend
told me that I should not give up on theater. I could succeed if I stayed
strong, and didn’t give up. They broke me that night, but I was able to get back
up.>
Connecting with others who shared similar experiences - of sustaining brutal eye
injuries after participating in peaceful protests, at the hands of the Islamic
Republic - provided solace and solidarity. Kowsar she learned from them how to
persist in the face of her daily suffering. But pressure from the Islamic
Republic intensified after a group photo of blinded individuals attending
Kowsar's theater performance circulated on social media.
Messages and phone calls flooded in, alongside subpoenas, and even threats of
acid attacks.
<After the photo of me at the theater went viral, the authorities pushed for
charges to be brought against me,> Kowsar says. <That was when they began
threatening to throw acid in my face. Appearing on stage definitely upset them
and I was officially blacklisted from working. My hard-earned degree was
revoked. I was banned from any kind of studying. They were trying to humiliate
me by denying me success, forcing me to be a failure.>
<I was forced by all the pressures they put on me to leave everything behind and
move to a strange land, but with the hope that I will continue the struggle, and
stand against this regime in my own way and not shame myself before the people
of Iran,> Kowsar adds. Judge Iman Afshari sentenced Kowsar to prison, aiming to
stifle her online activities as well. The verdict included four years and three
months of penal servitude, with five months immediately enforceable. Any
deviation, such as posting a photo without explanation, would result in the full
sentence being executed.
Kowsar was also barred from using a smartphone, communicating with the media and
social media, or leaving Iran, effectively limiting her life to basic
necessities. Despite leaving Iran, Kowsar remains committed to continuing the
struggle, lending her voice to the people and those exiled from their homeland.
And as the Islamic Republic denies any wrongdoing against protesters on the
international stage, thousands of victims bear witness to the atrocities abroad.
The United Nations fact-finding mission's report states that protesters' eyes
were systematically targeted, constituting a crime against humanity.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/blinding-as-a-weapon/127404-kowsar-eftekhari-he-smirked-and-shot-at-my-eye/
Women's
Liberation Front 2019/cryfreedom.net 2024
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