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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
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
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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 May 10, 2024)
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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 JINA
March 4 - February 27, 2024:
<<Iranian Teacher Arrested for
<Illegal Gathering> at Mahsa Amini's Grave...
and more news
UPDATE: February 12 , 2024:
<<Unlawfully Imprisoned Activist
and Organizer of Mahsa Jina Amini's Funeral Must Be
Released on Medical Grounds
<<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
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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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A to VICTORY tribute to
NARGES MOHAMMADI
Update April 10,
2024
Update
April 25, 2024
Narges Mohammadi Condemns Death
Sentence of Iranian Rapper Toomaj Salehi...
April 10,
2024
"Nobel Laureate Critiques
'Baseless' Case Against Iranian Activists
March 20, 2024
Letter from Narges Mohammadi for
Newroz
"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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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.
Toomaj Salehi and Justina
France 24 - May 4, 2024 - by Bahar MAKOOI
<<Rap music in Iran: 'Crossing the red line into politics makes you a
target'
Dozens of rappers have been arrested in Iran since the rise of hip-hop
in the country in the early 2000s. But the death sentence pronounced on
April 24 against the rapper Toomaj Salehi marks a turning point in the
Iranian regime's intolerance of artists with a political message. Exiled
rap artists Justina and Ghogha told FRANCE 24 of their admiration for
Salehi, <who scares the powers that be>.
Iranian rappers Toomaj Salehi and Justina collaborated on a track in
July 2022. The last time Justina spoke to Toomaj Salehi was in November
2023. The dissident rapper had just been released on bail after spending
more than a year in prison. <It was brief, I just wanted to check on
him, but I didn't want him to get into trouble for having been in
contact with me. So we didn't talk much,> recalled Iranian rap artist
Justina, who lives in exile in Sweden. Less than two weeks later, after
making a video where he denounced his detention conditions, Salehi was
arrested again. In the footage, the emaciated but determined rapper
directly faced the camera and recounted how his hands and legs were
broken. <They hit me in the face. I tried to protect myself with my
hands, but they broke my fingers,> he said of his torturers. <No one, no
authority should be above the law. It is the people who decide the
laws,> he continued, before passing on a message of hope to his fans: <I
hope that better days will come. I think we can build a beautiful Iran
together.> But on April 24, the verdict was pronounced: Salehi was
sentenced to death by a revolutionary court in the southern Iranian city
of Isfahan, despite an international campaign calling for his release.
Jina Amini
The authorities accused him of <corruption on earth> for his support of
the protest movement unleashed after the September 2022 death in police
custody of Mahsa Amini, 22, who was detained for allegedly breaking
Iran's strict hijab rules. <I'm still deeply shocked,> said Justina in a
trembling voice. Normally resolute, she was shaken by the judgement. <I
hope they don't carry out their sentence. It's psychological torture.
First and foremost for Toomaj and for all those who support him. Many
fans love him because he is the voice of ordinary people and he promised
them that he would stand up for them.>
'He will never give up, that's what scares the powers that be'
Known for her committed feminist lyrics, Justina first collaborated with
Toomaj on the track <Pichak>, released in July 2022. The track was
produced between Isfahan and Sweden with lyrics that are a cry of
freedom from Iranian youth: <We are Phoenixes who will rise from the
ashes. We are the fire that will rise from the ice. We are as infinite
as the earth.> Toomaj had had previous run-ins with the authorities,
including an arrest in 2021 when he was charged with propaganda against
the regime.
<He had already been arrested before Mahsa Amini's death,> Justina
noted, <but he never gave up.>
<And that's why he's still in prison today. He will never give up, and
that's what scares the authorities. They're afraid of him because they
know he won't shut up and he'll never leave Iran,> she explained. Other
rappers have chosen exile after coming under pressure from the regime.
Justina was one of them. <Six years ago, my house was raided, all my
belongings were searched and I was questioned for three days. They told
me I was a woman and that I had no right to sing,> she recalled. The
rapper, who found herself accused of <encouraging corruption of morals
and depravity>, decided to flee to Georgia and then Sweden.
<I thought it was ridiculous that I was prevented from singing.>
<She sings, she raps, she's a feminist and she filmed herself without
the veil. Her very existence is considered illegal. If you rap and
you're a girl in Iran, it's twice as bad,> said Ghogha, an Iranian
hip-hop singer who found refuge in Sweden in 2010. In Iran, the
authorities banned solo female singers from recording tracks of their
voices or performing alone in public. For Ghogha, who was one of the
first young girls to rap in the 2000s, it was a struggle. <A lot of
studios didn't let me record my tracks at the time, because they were
taking on an extra risk with me. And that's what happened in 2010 when
they raided one of these underground rap studios. They found my voice on
the hard drives and people were arrested because of me.>
<I was 20 years old,> she continues. <I loved music and poetry more than
anything else, and I thought it was ridiculous that I was prevented from
singing.> They are not the only ones to have had to flee. Soroush
Lashkari, nicknamed Hichkas (Nobody) was one of the pioneers of Iranian
rap in the early 2000s. He became famous, in particular, by challenging
God in a song, <Ekhtelaf>, in which he denounced the poverty, inequality
and corruption in his country. A year after the protests that followed
the disputed election of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009,
he released another highly political song entitled <A Good Day Will
Come>. This was the last song he recorded underground in Iran, before
leaving the country for Turkey and then England.
Pro-regime rappers
As Iranian rap gained popularity, the authorities first tried to
discredit the genre, describing rappers as <satanists> in a documentary
broadcast on state television. A fatwa was even issued in May 2012
against rapper Shahin Najafi, who has lived in Germany since 2005, for
his song <Naghi>. In this track, the artist attacks one of the twelve
imams of Shiite Islam. Najafi was accused of apostasy and a cleric
offered a $100,000 reward to anyone who killed him. <The Islamic
Republic tried various methods to get rid of rap, but they didn't
succeed, so they ended up using it to spread their ideology and trying
to influence young people,> explained Ghogha. <Today, there are even
rappers who work for them, like Sohrab MJ, who poses in photos and
shakes hands with ultraconservatives close to the Supreme Leader and the
Revolutionary Guards.> Some rappers have also sung pro-government songs,
such as Amir Tataloo and his track <Energy Hasteei> (<Nuclear Energy>),
in support of Iran's nuclear enrichment programme. The artist, who is
tattooed from head to toe, even supported the current conservative
president Ebrahim Raisi during his 2017 campaign before changing his
mind and ending up in exile in Turkey. He was deported to Iran in July
2023 and sent to prison. Accused of producing and publishing <obscene>
works, his trial is ongoing. <As long as rap is about partying, drugs
and hooking up, you get the impression that the regime has no problem
with it. On the contrary, they advocate depoliticised male rap, which
suits them. But the minute you cross the political red line, you become
a target,> commented Justina. <Rap is very popular in Iran, as it is
everywhere else in the world,> says a musician who knows the Iranian
hip-hop scene well, and who prefers to remain anonymous. <There's not a
car on the street that doesn't play some kind of music. But you have to
admit that the dominant rap music is mainly commercial. With the
development of streaming, some artists are making a lot of money, up to
$10,000 a month. They give concerts abroad and come back to Iran without
being hassled because their music doesn't bother anyone. It's not
political,> added the musician, who is based outside of Iran. Toomaj's
political rap, on the other hand, is rooted in the growing resentment of
Iranian society towards its rulers, following the repression of the
protests of 2017, 2019 and 2022 - the latter sparked by the death of
Amini. Toomaj is not the only rapper in prison today. Saman Yasin, a
26-year-old Kurd who was arrested during the 2022 demonstrations, is
also in prison. In October 2022 he was sentenced to death. Two months
later he tried to take his own life because of the harsh conditions in
Rajaei-Shahr prison in Karaj, where he was tortured. According to The
Kurdistan Human Rights Network, the young man was placed in solitary
confinement in a room known as <The Mortuary> and was thrown several
times from a height. His sentence has just been commuted to five years'
imprisonment. And now Salehi's supporters can only hope that he will
benefit from a similar decision.
This article has been translated from the original in French.>>
Source:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240504-rap-music-iran-crossing-red-line-politics-makes-you-target-toomaj-salehi
Watch and hear Justines' ('Chasm') song 'Yes sir!' here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0jTLa_3rUk
Women's
Liberation Front 2019/cryfreedom.net 2024
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