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THE BELOW (updated 12 MAR 2022)
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
Read all about the assasination of the 22 year
young Jhina Masra Amini or Zhina Mashra Amini (Kurdistan-Iran)
Al Jazeera
21 Sep 2022
<<Appeal at UN for world leaders to protect Afghan girls' education.
After pleading with world leaders at the United Nations to protect the
education and rights of women in Afghanistan a year after the Taliban
took over, Somaya Faruqi, the former captain of the Afghan girls'
robotics team, broke down in tears backstage. <I was in classroom last
year, but this year girls are not in classroom. Class-rooms are empty,
and they are at their homes. So it was too hard to control myself,
control my feelings,> Faruqi, aged 20, told the Reuters news agency.
Faruqi, who now attends the Missouri Univer-sity of Science and
Technology, left Afghanistan in August last year when the Taliban seized
power and the United States and allies withdrew forces after a 20-year
war. Speaking at the UN in New York this week as world leaders gather
for the high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly, she urged them to
unite and demand the reopening of girls’ schools and the protection of
their rights. “This week, you are all here to propose solutions to
transform education to all, but you must not forget those who left
behind, those who are not lucky enough to be at school at all,” said
Faruqi. <Show your solidarity with me and millions of Afghan girls.>
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by a Taliban
gunman in Pakistan as she left school in 2012, chided heads of state for
the lack of action. <Most of you know what exactly needs to be done. You
must not make small, stingy and short-term pledges, but commit to uphold
the right to complete education and close the funding gap once and for
all,> Yousafzai said on Monday.
Last year, she pleaded with the world not to compromise on the
protection of Afghan women’s rights following the Taliban takeover.
'Lift all restrictions'
The Taliban says women should not leave home without a male relative and
must cover their faces, though some women in urban centres ignore the
rule.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/21/appeal-at-un-for-world-leaders-to-protect-afghan-girls-education
And 2 links to Malala
The Guardian
19 Sep 2022
By Photographs by Arete/Disasters Emergency Committee
<<'Some days we eat grass': families on the edge in Afghanistan's food
crisis – in pictures.
Drought, economic collapse and soaring food prices have pushed millions
into hunger. Cash aid from the Disasters Emergency Committee is helping
families feed their children and send them back to school.>>
View all the pictures and sub-texts here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2022/sep/19/some-days-we-eat-grass-families-on-the-edge-in-afghanistans-food-crisis-in-pictures
France24
17 Sep 2022
<<Police fire tear gas to disperse demo over woman's death: media.
ehran (AFP) – Security forces on Saturday fired tear gas to disperse
protesters in northwest Iran after the death of a woman arrested in
Tehran by the Islamic republic's <morality police>, local media
reported. Mahsa Amini, 22, was on a visit with her family to the Iranian
capital when she was detained on Tuesday by the police unit responsible
for enforcing Iran's strict dress code for women, including the wearing
of the headscarf in public. She was declared dead on Friday by state
television after having spent three days in a coma.
Her body was laid to rest in her hometown of Saghez, 460 kilometres (285
miles) from Tehran in northwestern Kurdistan province, on Saturday
morning, according to Fars news agency. <Following the funeral ceremony,
some people left the scene while others remained, chanting slogans
demanding detailed investigations into the dimen-sions of the story,>
the agency said. <The protesters then gathered in front of the
governor's office and chanted more slogans but were dispersed when
security forces fired tear gas,> it added.
State television broadcast images on Friday purportedly showing her
falling to the ground inside a large hall full of women while arguing
with one of the female instructors about her dress. In a statement on
Friday, Tehran police insisted <there was no physical encounter> between
officers and Amini. It said Amini was among a number of women who had
been taken to a police station for <instruction> on the dress code on
Tuesday. <She suddenly fainted while with other visitors in the hall,>
the statement said. Earlier, President Ebrahim Raisi ordered an inquiry
into Amini's case while the judiciary said it would form a special task
force to investigate. Head of Tehran medical examiner's office on
Saturday told state television that investigations into the cause of
death would take up to three weeks to complete. Amini's death comes amid
growing controversy both inside and outside Iran over the conduct of the
morality police, known formally as the Gasht-e Ershad (Guidance Patrol).
In July, a video of a woman standing in front of one of the force's vans
plea-ding for her daughter's release went viral on social media.
....
Following the 1979 Islamic revolution, the law requires all women,
regardless of nationality or religious belief, to wear a hijab that
covers the head and neck while concealing the hair. Many women, however,
have pushed the boundaries over the past two decades by allowing the
hijab to slide back and reveal more hair, especially in Tehran and other
major cities.>>
Read the whole article here:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220917-police-fire-tear-gas-to-disperse-demo-over-woman-s-death-media
Note by Gino d'Artali: and do read the (quoted article (with link to the
full) article below.
The Guardian
5 Sep 2022
Supported by the
Guardian.org
By Weronika Strzyzynska
<<Iranian authorities plan to use facial recognition to enforce new
hijab law.
The Iranian government is planning to use facial recognition tech-nology
on public transport to identify women who are not complying with a
strict new law on wearing the hijab, as the regime continues its
increasingly punitive crackdown on women's dress. The secretary of
Iran's Headquarters for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice, Mohammad
Saleh Hashemi Golpayegani, announced in a recent interview that the
government was planning to use surveillance technology against women in
public places following a new decree signed by the country’s hardline
president, Ebrahim Raisi, on restricting women’s clothing. The decree
was signed on 15 August, a month after the 12 July national <Hijab and
Chastity Day>, which sparked countrywide protests by women who posted
videos of them-selves on social media with their heads uncovered on
streets and on buses and trains. In recent weeks, the Iranian
authorities have responded with a spate of arrests, detentions and
forced confessions on television. <The Iranian government has long
played with the idea of using facial recognition to identify people who
violate the law,> said Azadeh Akbari, a researcher at the University of
Twente, in the Netherlands. <The regime combines violent 'old-fashioned'
forms of totalitarian control dressed up in new technologies.> The hijab,
a head-covering worn by Muslim women, became mandatory after Iran's
revolution in 1979. Yet, over the decades since, women have pushed the
limits of the stipulated dress code. Some of the women arrested for
defying the new decree were identified after vi-deos were posted online
of them being harassed on public transport for not wearing the hijab
properly. One, 28-year-old Sepideh Rashno, was arrested after a video
circulated on social media of her being berated for <improper dress> by
a fellow passenger, who was then forced off the vehicle by bystanders
intervening on Rashno's behalf. According to the human rights group
Hrana, Rashno was beaten after her arrest and subsequently forced to
apologise on television to the passenger who harassed her. Rashno is not
the first person to suffer violent repression as a result of going viral
on the internet.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/05/iran-government-facial-recognition-technology-hijab-law-crackdown
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: And yes do read more about what's co- ming up
next to happen in Afghanistan so Afghanistans Women' Resistence, brace
yourselfs and (be) prepared.
France 24|The Observers
2 Sep 2022
By Aljani Ershad
<<Video: Afghan woman cries for help after torture, forced marriage to
Taliban official.
A young woman cries and pleads for her life. In a 19-minute video
published by Afghan media on August 30, a former medical student named
Elaha showed images she says came from being beaten, raped and tortured
by Saeed Khosty, a former Taliban official, during the past six months.
She says Khosty threatened her family and forced her to marry him. The
video, whose authenticity was confirmed to the FRANCE 24 Observers by
two people who have been in contact with the young woman, sheds light on
the abuses of power and violence towards women in Taliban-controlled
Afghanistan. <After publishing this video, it's possible that no one
will see me again, I might die,> Elaha says in the video, which she
recorded during several sessions while in captivity. She passed the
recordings, along with accompanying photos and videos showing her with
Khosty, to activists and journalists who published them online.
Activists say she is now in safety in an undisclosed location.>>
Read the whole article and watch the video here:
https://observers.france24.com/en/middle-east/20220902-video-afghan-woman-cries-for-help-after-torture-forced-marriage-to-taliban-official
France 24
01 Sep 2022
Text by France 24|Video by Catherine Norris Trent
<<'I don't want to be illiterate': Afghan girls defy Taliban school ban.
Despite international pressure, Taliban authorities have banned teenage
girls from going to school in most Afghan provinces, denying an entire
generation access to education. Some girls have chosen to defy the ban,
taking huge risks to pursue their hopes and dreams. FRANCE 24's
Catherine Norris Trent and Tarek Kai visited a secret school in Kabul
where determined activists brave the Taliban’s rules to give young women
the education they aspire to.
----
Despite the ban, some schools have chosen to remain open to girls, in
secret. FRANCE 24 visited one such school, where some 230 young girls
receive a few hours of classes each day. <Most of the time we are afraid
on the street, on the road. But I don't want to be illiterate,> said one
pupil, referring to her fears of being caught on the way to school. <I
have a lot of dreams and I have a lot of hopes,> said another. <I don't
want to sit at home because sitting at home is wasting time.> >>
Read more here:
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20220901-i-don-t-want-to-be-illiterate-afghan-girls-defy-taliban-school-ban
It includes an embedded video
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