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HAIL TO THE IRANIAN
WOMEN'S REVOLUTIONISTS FALLEN FOR FREDOM
against
the supreme leader, the arch-reactionary Ayatollah Ali Khomeini,
and his placeman president. The message of
the women when the former president visited a university was plain: <give way or
get lost> in 2023 and still is.
IN MEMORY OF ASRA PANAHI (16)- JINA MAMINI (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
(Updates
October 15, 2024)
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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
October 8, 2024:
"The perpetrators of war are the
outcasts and the disgraced throughout history..."
September 25, 2024:
Letter from Narges Mohammadi to UN
General Assembly
September 16, 2024:
"Message from Narges
Mohammadi for Jina Mahsa Amini"
May 6, 2024
"Tyranny will fall"
"Victory is not easy, but it is certain"
watch it here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LAMPz57Aqw
Click here for a news-overview
from January 15, 2024 'till October 31, 2023
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JINA AMINI'S VOICE IS HEARD
And do read also the above linked incredible
December 2023 update!
despite the mullahs'
regime to force it down!
Her mother speaks
out loud and clear
UPDATED:
September 29 - 16, 2024
Second Anniversary of Jina Amini's
state-sanctioned murder
incl. Commemorating Bloody Friday
and earlier news about
a wave of arrests of her fellow-citizen
Oct 13 - 9, 2024:
Commemoration of the
Fallen for Freedom Part 2
Oct 3, 2024:
Commemoration of the Fallen for
Freedom
Click here for earlier news of the
'Woman, Life, Freedom'
revolution
MARJAM AKBARI
MONFARED
June 24, 2024:
The Iranian Regime
Judiciary Launches a New Case to Seize the Assets of Maryam Akbari Monfared and Her Family, in Revenge for
Seeking Justice for Her Siblings Executed in the 1980s
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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PAKSHAN AZIZI
Actual News:
September 23 - 16, 2024:
<<Pakhshan Azizi denied medical
care ...and
<<Letter from Pakhshan Azizi: The
philosophy of Jin, Jiyan, Azadi is a philosophy of life...
September 10 - 9, 2024
"Twenty-Six Human Rights Organizations Demand Immediate
Cancellation of Pakhshan Azizi's Death Sentence..."
and more actual news
September 5, 2024
"You dictator, I am Arash, fire
responds to fire,"
August 19, 2024
Sentenced to Death for Assisting
Women Targeted by ISIS
And read here her full story:
July 23 - 22, 2024
"Denying the Truth,
and Its Alternative"
September 5, 2024
"You dictator, I am Arash, fire
responds to fire,"
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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:
Actual stories:
October 11, 2024:
Repression in Iran with bullets
October 10, 2024:
Atrocities Against Girls
October 9, 2024:
The story of Hasti H. P. Echoes
Courage
October 9, 2024:
The story of Hasti H. P. Echoes
Courage
October 7, 2024:
CCTV to Police for Hijab
Enforcement
October 4, 2024:
Woman Life Freedom Bloody Friday
in Zahedan
and
Click here for previous inspiring
stories and articles
incl. Red Alerts |
'New' topic: a regimes' re-newed method of
torture: denial of medical care
coming up soon!
And read here more about the
'Nurses 'strike' back':
Other updates can be read in
the 'Actual News' section
August 30, 2024:
"Nurses can neutralize security
forces' efforts with unity."
and updates:
August 28, 2024:
Nurses' demands - "A nurse will
die, but will not accept humiliation,":
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"NO to executions"
campaign
In support - reflection and
updates:
Sept. 7 - August 20, 2024
Other updates can be read in
the 'Actual News' section
'The mullahs' regime / OHCHR* gallows' dance'
Other updates can be read in
the 'Actual News' section
July 8 - 4, 2024:
The-death-sentence-against-Sharifeh-Mohammadi
June 15, 2024:
Prisoner Swap with Iran is
Shameful Reward
June 5 - May 23, 2024:
It |Iran| puts people to death in
order to terrorize the population into silence.
and other stories
*OHCHR - UN Office of
the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Click here for earlier reports
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October 15 - 11, 2024
<<Iran: The Death Sentence
of Sharifeh Mohammadi Overturned...
and <<Mahsa Jalal Badiei transferred to Lakan prison to
serve her sentence...
and <<Iran Denies Medical Treatment for Imprisoned
Baha'i Poet Mahvash Sabet...
and <<Iran Sentences Two Women Journalists to 5 Years
Over Mahsa Amini Coverage...
and <<Ongoing Restrictions on Phone Calls and Visits in
Evin Prison's Women's Ward...
and <<Women discuss femicide and women's struggle...
and <<Iran regime's judiciary refuses to release
political prisoner Maryam Akbari after the completion of
her 15-year sentence...
and <<Varisha Moradi on an Indefinite Hunger Strike in
Evin Prison...
and more actual fact-finding news |
May 10 - 3, 2024
'War against the No-hijabi
women'
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October 11 - 4, 2024
<<Narges Mohammadi: The
perpetrators of war are the outcasts and the disgraced
throughout history...
and <<A Woman Victim of Child Marriage Executed in Ahar
Prison, Iran...
and <<Fatemeh Moradpour, 15, Commits Suicide Under
Pressure for Forced Marriage...
and <<World Day Against the Death Penalty...
and <<Iranian Journalist Sentenced for Instagram
Posts...
and <<Political Prisoner in Critical Condition After
Month-Long Hunger Strike...
and more actual fact-finding news |
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.
Hasti Panahi
Iranwire - October 9, 2024 - by Aida Ghajar
<<Echoes of Courage: The Girl Who Dreamed of Freedom and Defied Death
Hasti Hossein Panahi was one of the thousands of Iranian teenagers who
took to the streets after the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody in
September 2022. Hasti, along with many of her classmates in the city of
Dehgolan in Kurdistan Province, joined the nationwide protests that same
month. For the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, students
became part of a broader movement. Security forces identified and
interrogated 14-year-old Hasti. Hasti later fell into a coma for six
months, and half of her body became paralyzed. Due to harassment by
security forces, she and her family were forced to emigrate. They now
live in Munich, a city that has become a refuge for many Iranians in
recent times. We were unable to conduct the interview at the refugee
camp for various reasons. Instead, we spoke with Hasti, her parents, her
sister Mahna, and her doll Baran in a park. Baran is a doll that has
been with Hasti since childhood: "Whatever I do during the day, I tell
Baran about it." I promised Hasti that Baran would definitely be part of
both the documentary and the report or book about her. "A girl who
listens to Rumi and writes, a girl who, while washing dishes, without
gossip, goes to the sea and the forest, a girl who lets her hair blow in
the wind..." She couldn't recall the rest of the poem. When I asked
Hasti, now nearly 16, to recite one of the poems she had written, she
read a few lines, but the rest she had forgotten.
Before November 9, 2022, Hasti attended a creative writing class, wrote
short stories, and composed poetry.
I asked Samira, Hasti's mother, what her dreams for her daughter had
been. She responded, "I wanted my Hasti to be someone useful for society
and herself. To be herself in the community. Every morning when she
wakes up, I wait to see if she will wake up like she used to. I watch
how she gets out of bed. Does her voice sound like it used to when she
calls me and speaks? Does she walk the same way? Does she get up on her
own and go, without needing my help? Our happiness was shared. We were
more friends than mother and daughter. They took my breath away."
Schoolgirls under the age of 18 in Kurdish areas, like many others in
Iranian cities, were among the most active protesters in the "Woman,
Life, Freedom" movement sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini. For Hasti,
who had already participated in peaceful civil protests at her school,
the Mahsa movement provided an opportunity to protest against 40 years
of oppression of women and ethnic minorities under the Islamic Republic
and to strive for a normal life.
What happened to Hasti?
I asked Hasti about Mahsa Amini. Without hesitation, she replied, "Mahsa
Amini? Yes, they took her and killed her, unfortunately. I don't
remember much from before that, but now, when I think about it, I feel
sad." During the tense days and nights of protests, whenever chants
echoed through the city, Hasti would open the windows and shout "Woman,
Life, Freedom" along with the protesters. She was a child, and neither
of her parents imagined that the desire for freedom was so deeply woven
into the fabric of children under 18 that they, too, would step into the
streets and join the nationwide protests. Samira recalls, "[Hasti] said,
'Mom, if I don't go, if you don't go, if dad, uncle, and aunt don't go,
then who will? It is our duty to go [to the streets].'" Hasti
distributed protest leaflets with slogans like "Woman, Life, Freedom"
just like other active students, placing them on car windows until she
was identified. The head of the Melli Bank in Dehgolan at the time,
extracted footage of Hasti from the bank's CCTV cameras and handed it
over to the Ministry of Intelligence. A video that Ghanbari provided to
the Ministry of Intelligence was made available to Mojtaba Karami, the
then-head of the security department of the Education Ministry in
Dehgolan. According to Hasti's mother, agents from the Ministry of
Intelligence, along with Mojtaba Karami, went to Hasti's school. They
interrogated the 14-year-old girl alone in a room without the presence
or knowledge of her parents. Hasti's father, Mansoor, is a teacher with
a strong passion for educating children. From the beginning of his
career, he chose to teach in villages rather than larger cities,
focusing on teaching elementary school children. He said, "These kids
were at an age full of excitement and enthusiasm, and they could have
informed me that your child is doing these things. This child had not
yet reached the legal age and was only 14 years old. Legally and
religiously, at this age, they cannot make proper choices." Samira,
Hasti's mother, adds that after the incident, the agents told them that
her daughter had repeatedly gone to the streets and joined the
nationwide protests, "Hasti [and her classmates] had torn pictures of
Khomeini and Khamenei from their textbooks and thrown them out of the
window into the street. They knew all this. My sister told me that once
the agents had followed her in the street, and that was why she went to
my sister's house." According to Hasti's mother, agents from the
Ministry of Intelligence, along with Mojtaba Karami, went to Hasti's
school. They interrogated the 14-year-old girl alone in a room without
the presence or knowledge of her parents. The exact events of the day of
the incident remain unclear. After suffering a skull base fracture and
being in a coma for six months, Hasti cannot remember what happened, and
the school and Education Ministry officials have not been held
accountable. The only confirmed information indicates that Hasti was
interrogated alone and violently in an empty school room by a woman and
four men, without her parents present. She then escaped from them and
hurriedly boarded the school bus. However, upon seeing the agents
chasing the bus, she threw herself from it in fear of being interrogated
again. Samira recounts that according to other students, at that moment,
Hasti had escaped twice but the agents had dragged her back to the
school, "The third time she escaped, her scarf had fallen off. Her hair
was dishevelled and she was crying."
According to Hasti's classmates, when she boarded the school bus, a
woman pulled her out and spoke to Hasti angrily. Hasti told her
classmates in that state: "They want to take me away and rape me."
Samira adds, "Hasti was very afraid of rape. She preferred death over
sexual assault."
After the Incident: The Presence of Security and Intelligence Forces at
the Hospital
The first news of the incident was delivered to Hasti’s father by her
uncle. From that moment on, life for the family changed completely. Six
months of suffering followed - a struggle between hope and despair. A
father who lost his job, a younger sister enduring the hospital ordeal
with the family for months, and a mother who prayed by her daughter’s
bedside every night until morning for her recovery. When Mansoor
received the news, he hurriedly set off. On the way, he saw the school
bus parked by the roadside. Hasti was nowhere to be found. She had been
transferred to Dehgolan Hospital. When Mansoor arrived at the hospital,
medical staff were working to revive Hasti. Shortly after the news
reached Samira, she also headed to the hospital and saw that local
residents and family members were all in the hospital yard. Among this
crowd were also plainclothes security forces. Samira recalls, "I turned
to the plainclothes forces and asked what did you tell my daughter? What
did you do to her? Suddenly, the school principal came over and said to
the agents, 'Didn't I tell you to leave her alone? Did you see what
happened to her?' The first group that was present above Hasti were
intelligence agents." Hasti was transferred to Kowsar Hospital in
Sanandaj. According to medical documents, her skull base was fractured
on the day of the incident, and she was admitted to the ICU. She then
escaped from them and hurriedly boarded the school bus. However, upon
seeing the agents chasing the bus, she threw herself from it in fear of
being interrogated again. Hasti's mother says, "Doctors always wondered
that if the skull base fracture and cerebral haemorrhage were caused by
falling from a vehicle, why was there no other part of her body
fractured? Only Hasti's head was severely injured. If this blow was this
severe, why weren't her hands or legs broken or injured? Only her eye
was bruised, which is also unclear whether it was hit during the
interrogation or was something else. I asked the doctors why they didn't
write this down. They said it couldn't be done." The doctors had given
up hope, saying that if she were lucky, she would lead a vegetative
life. The only hope was that the bleeding would subside and she might
regain consciousness. The surgeon decided to place a shunt to drain the
cerebral fluid, giving her a 50 per cent chance of survival. After 40
days in a coma, the shunt surgery was performed. According to Hasti's
father, her consciousness was so low that she was operated on without
anaesthesia. Throughout the six months, Samira was by Hasti's side. She
repeatedly witnessed code 99 being called for Hasti, meaning
resuscitation. Samira says, "I never believed that Hasti was gone.
During those six months, I talked to Hasti, played her films and
stories, got her a laptop, put wedding videos on for her, and painted
her nails." On the morning of the surgery, the hospital director
approached Samira, took her out of Hasti's room, and told her that for
the surgery, Hasti's hair needed to be shaved - this was particularly
hard for a mother who had braided her daughter's hair every day and
night during her hospital stay and coma, "It was very difficult for me
because I knew how much Hasti loved her hair. It was even harder from
the moment I went to Hasti's bedside." At the suggestion of one of the
nurses, Hasti's braided hair was given to her mother, "There were two
braids - they brought them to me. I was right beside Hasti. In those
early hours, I said I trust no one, I must be beside my daughter."
Echoes of Courage: The Girl Who Dreamed of Freedom and Defied Death
All these impossibilities were made possible with the support of the
medical staff and the hospital - six months of around-the-clock life
next to a child who was in a coma. Despite Hasti's mother stating that
the hospital yard was filled with plainclothes security forces and Hasti
was forbidden from receiving visitors, she would still meet her visitors
in the hospital yard, "They would come close to my ear, men, women,
plainclothes officers. They would come and say 'Don't say that,' I would
see the pictures of Khomeini and Khamenei in the hospital and would say
to the pictures, oppressors! What have you done to my daughter? They
would come and say don't say that." Hasti's father was summoned to the
Ministry of Intelligence and pressured to accept Hasti's death. A few
days after the incident, the Dehgolan security forces summoned Mansoor,
Hasti's father, a teacher employed by the Education Ministry, "They
wanted to absolve everyone and place all the blame on Hasti, claiming
she had issues and was depressed." The Hossein Panahi family was
pressured to portray the incident as an <accident> and to file a
complaint against the school bus driver. Hasti's family, however,
refused to cooperate. They were even pressured to remove Hasti from the
medical devices sooner. "During those six months in a coma, they
repeatedly said to discharge Hasti. They asked, 'What would you do about
the hospital costs?' They wanted to disconnect the machines from Hasti.
Sometimes they would say, 'This is not Hasti breathing, it's the
machine.' They came and said, 'Why don't you want to disconnect the
machines? Do you realize how many lives you are putting at risk by doing
this? Hasti is gone.' There was a plainclothes officer who insisted on
disconnecting the machines."
A Miracle
Hasti's father and mother, while sometimes keeping Mahna, their younger
daughter, at the hospital and sometimes at home, watched Hasti's body
day and night, hoping for even the slightest movement that would
indicate their child's recovery. Hasti's mother practiced patience:
"Every night, after cleaning the room and arranging Hasti, I would spray
perfume in the room and sit waiting. All night long, I prayed to God for
Hasti to return."
One night, Samira felt that life had returned to Hasti's eyes, and as
always, she asked her for water with her gaze. The devices were
connected to Hasti, and she couldn’t drink water. Samira wet her hands
and touched her daughter's lips, but once again, life had left those two
eyes. Samira couldn't tell anyone because she thought no one would
believe her. Two weeks later, on the morning of March 19, 2023, Hasti
opened her eyes to life. Samira says, "Suddenly, she moved the fingers
of her left hand. I believed that Hasti was truly coming back. I turned
on the phone to record a video. I said, 'Hasti dear, what do you want?'
She asked for water again. I wet her lips and recorded the video. She
raised her hand in a sign of victory."
Life for Hasti
After the coma, Hasti had a slow recovery process. Her father says that
at first, she would only open her eyes, and the doctors said those gazes
were not purposeful; it couldn't be said with certainty that Hasti had
returned. It took some time before her looks became purposeful, and she
came back to life. A month passed before she was discharged from the
hospital, but half of her body was paralyzed, and she couldn't speak.
Samira's nightly prayers were now mixed with another sorrow: "I always
say, 'God, you gave Hasti back to me. I wanted her breaths, I wanted
Hasti's eyes and presence. Now, give health back to Hasti. It's so hard
to see that she wants to talk to her friends but can't communicate. It's
so hard, so hard'"
Samira adds, "Hasti's younger sister is eight years old. My little girl
stayed with me in the ICU for three months. After three months, she
couldn't endure it anymore and stayed with my mother. Her psychological
condition is worse than Hasti’s. I always say, ‘Hasti slept for six
months, but Mahna suffered while awake.' Our entire 20-year life, mine
and her father's, is gone. Everything." Hasti's father says, "They
threatened us not to say anything, or we would be arrested. That's why
we left. Not just for Hasti's treatment, but so we wouldn't get trapped
ourselves." After the incident, her father, alongside Samira, stayed by
Hasti's side, which is why he gave up his job as a teacher: "I gave
everything for Hasti." A letter was sent from the Dehgolan court asking
whether Hasti's family wished to file a complaint. They had announced
that they would, but "When I went to lawyers to pursue the case, many
refused. Finally, a lawyer agreed to draft the request. After six
months, we received one or two summonses to go to court and file a
complaint against the school bus driver. I’m not complaining about the
driver. I'm complaining about the school principal, Dehgolan's
Department of Education, and the provincial Department of Education. Who
will answer for my daughter’s condition? My daughter went to school
healthy." Instead of responding, however, their lawyer was summoned: "He
told me that after drafting the complaint, he was summoned twice by the
intelligence protection department. They had even said that Hasti's
parents were collaborating with foreign media and leaking information -
they threatened to summon us too." Hasti's family's complaint went
nowhere. After being harassed by security agents, the Hossein Panahi
family had to leave their homeland. With the help of the "Munich Circle"
group, they migrated to Germany in February 2024. After months of
waiting, Hasti's treatment has recently begun, and her family hopes that
the girl who once wanted to be a writer and poet will start writing
again.
Two weeks later, on the morning of March 19, 2023, Hasti opened her eyes
to life
"My Daughter is a Writer"
"Before this incident, wherever we went, when we returned home at night,
Hasti would go to her room for two or three hours and come back with a
paper, reading what she had written. After I realized her writings were
interesting, I enrolled her in a storytelling class. In the early days
after the incident, when I was upset and crying, I would say, 'My
daughter is a writer, a short story writer.' My phone was always in her
hands, and then I would see that she had written something and saved
it." Hasti had written for Mahsa too. A day before the incident, she had
written about her in class. She told her mother that she had written the
text with self-censorship. She wanted to complete her writing later, but
the day of the incident arrived. One of Hasti's sentences about Mahsa
and "freedom" reads: "Here, all the butterflies die in their cocoons
because freedom is a crime."
We handed Hasti the phone to read one of the writings she wrote after
the incident, the ones she wrote on Samira's phone. Hasti read: "I miss
the one who thought she'd grow up and everything would be okay."
IranWire will publish Hasti's short stories in a collection called
Hasti's Book, a book that reflects the delicate and poetic spirit of a
14-year-old Iranian girl, sensitive to the social issues around her, who
was plunged into a coma, paralyzed, and lost part of her memory and
speech simply for living an ordinary life.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/special-features/134811-echoes-of-courage-the-girl-who-dreamed-of-freedom-and-defied-death/
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