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Read all about the Iranian Zan, zendagi, azadi
(Women, life, freedom) revolution!
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Gino d'Artali
Indept investigative journalist
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CHAPTER 4 OF THE IRANIAN
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9 November 2022 |
4 November-28 October |
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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
Note by Gino d'Artali: The Zan, zendagi, azadi!> (Women, life,
freedom) has just started and will only then end when khamenei and his
puppets i.e. the morality police and the basijis give way or get lost!!
So Chapter 4 is where the protests continue and I'll continue to inform you
about it. That's my pledge.
The Guardian
Supported by The Guardian.org
4 Nov 2022
By Deepa Parent
<<Dozens arrested as Iranian security forces attack university campuses
Iran's security forces have launched a series of attacks on university
students at campuses across the country with dozens of students being
arrested, according to the Students' Union of Iran. According to student
organisations and human rights groups, the attacks on uni-versities
intensified this week as young people gathered to mark 40 days since
Mahsa Amini died in the custody of Iran's morality police in September.
The death of the 22-year-old woman sparked eight weeks of nationwide
protests against the regime. The highly sym-bolic 40th day traditionally
marks the end of mourning. The Students Union of Iran has documented
more than 40 arrests of university students and is collating reports of
detentions and raids on cam-puses by security forces across the country
on its Telegram channel.
The Norway-based Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights, which reports on
Kurdish areas in the west of Iran, said the fate of dozens of young
people arrested last week and dozens of others detained by security
forces for attending earlier protests remained unknown.
Anousheh*, a student at a university in Tehran, told the Guardian that
she was violently assaulted by security forces last weekend as she left
her campus. <One of my best friends was arrested outside the campus this
weekend and I still don't know where he is,> she said. <[After the
protests] the security forces were waiting for stu-dents to exit the
university and they started beating us with batons.
We all ran for our lives,> Anousheh said. <We have been warned by our
faculty to stop the protests immediately to avoid arrests [but] we are
not stopping.> University students in Mashhad also said they had been
attacked by security forces this week, with videos online appearing to
show plainclothes officers dragging students into vehicles. Karim* said
he was part of a group of about 200 students who had gathered on 26
October to mark the 40th day of mourning for Mahsa Amini. Moments after
arriving, Karim claims security forces locked the gates and blocked the
exits. Students were detained and beaten as they tried to leave, he
said. <After three hours, with security forces using teargas and batons,
I managed to get out but at least seven of my friends have since been
detained this week. Once they're taken away, no one knows where they
are. University officials are powerless,> he said.>>
Names have been changed to protect identities.
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/nov/04/dozens-arrested-as-iranian-security-forces-attack-university-campuses
Jinha
Womens News Agency
4 Nov 2022
<<Jina Mahsa Amini becomes symbol of resistance in Iran
Jina Mahsa Amini, who was killed in Tehran by the morality police, has
become the symbol of the resistance for people, who have been taking to
the streets in Iran and Rojhelat Kurdistan for 50 days.
News Center - The protests that started in Iran and Rojhelat Kurdistan
following the killing of Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini on September 16
continue. She has become the symbol of the anti-regime protests in Iran
and Rojhelat Kurdistan.
The people don't want the regime
The protesters in Sanandaj and Saqez continue to take to the streets
despite the attacks of the regime forces. The anti-regime protests in
Kamyaran, Bukan and Bahe, cities in Rojhelat/Eastern Kurdistan continue.
People continue to take to the streets in many cities of Iran such as
Urmia, Fasa, Qazvin, Rasht, Karaj, Isfahan, Ahvaz, Bushehr, Tehran and
Lahijan. The people no longer want the regime to rule the country and
demand the resignation of the government. The protesters keep chanting
the slogan, <Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Women, Life, Freedom)> and holding the
photos of Jina Mahsa Amini during the protests.
Security forces open fire on people
Yesterday, people gathered in Isfahan to hold a commemoration for Jina
Mahsa Amini; however, Iranian regime forces opened fire on the people.
In Karaj, the soldiers of the Iranian regime attacked the people trying
to hold a commemoration.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/jina-mahsa-amini-becomes-symbol-of-resistance-in-iran-32216
France 24 | The Observers
3 Nov 2022
Text by: Alijani Ershad
<<Investigation: How Iran's security forces are shooting to kill with
'non-combat' shotgun shells.
<If you shoot at close range, you can kill.> In a rare interview, a
member of Iran's Basij paramilitary force told the FRANCE 24 Observers
team that members of his unit were firing shotguns at protesters' chests
and heads, aiming to kill them. While shotguns firing special ammunition
can be considered <less-lethal> weapons - less deadly than military
rifles like Kalashnikovs - they should never be used for crowd control
at close range, experts say. At least 277 Iranians have been documented
killed in the protests that have wracked Iran since September 16 over
the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who died after being arrested by
the morality police. Security forces have repressed the protests by
force. While the single highest death toll - more than 66 people killed
in the city of Zahedan on September 30 - happened when police opened
fire using live rifle bullets, other protesters have been killed and
injured by beatings and the use of so-called <less-lethal> weapons -
notably shotguns. Dozens of videos shared online show the use of
shotguns by Iranian security forces, including plainclothes police
officers, the Basij forces - the paramilitary branch of the
Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) - as well as anti-riot police. Amnesty
International reports have also confirmed the widespread usage of
shotguns by the Iranian security forces.
....
But they also have access to combat weapons like Kalashnikov assault
rifles, and he believes they may be ordered to use them against the 2022
protests - as they were in 2019, when an estimated 1,500 protesters were
killed in two weeks.
....
And if you kill someone, you won' <Mostafa> told us how he and other
members of the Basij had received training in the use of what they call
<non-combat> weapons, but do not follow the training during protests to
not get in trouble. So hotheads or officers who do not care shoot at
people's heads. That can be deadly.>>
It's a long story but worth reading to be prepared if you get my drift -
Gino d'Artali
Read all here:
https://observers.france24.com/en/middle-east/20221103-investigation-iran-security-forces-police-basij-non-combat-shotguns-lethal
France 24
3 Nov 2022
Text by News Wires
<<Clashes with police erupt near Iran's capital as protests continue.
Iranian protesters clashed with police in a town near the capital on
Thursday, reportedly killing or wounding a number of members of the
security forces, who at one point dropped stun grenades on the
demonstrators from helicopters. It was the latest in a wave of
demonstrations that have convulsed Iran for more than six weeks and mark
one of the biggest challenges to the country's clerical rulers since
they seized power in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The protesters had
gathered in Karaj, just outside Tehran, to mark the 40th day since the
shooting death of Hadis Najafi, 22, one of several young women to have
been killed during the protests. The demon-strations were ignited by the
death of another woman held by the country's morality police. The 40th
day after someone's death has great symbolism in Shiite Islam and is
marked by public mourning. Commemorating protester deaths has given
momentum to the on-going demonstrations, just as it did during the 1979
revolution that overthrew a Western-backed monarchy. Videos circulated
online showed thousands of protesters in Karaj and clashes with police.
In one of them, a helicopter flies over the protesters and drops flash
grenades in an attempt to disperse them before landing in the middle of
a highway. Government supporters on social media said the helicopter was
sent to aid wounded policemen. The state-run IRNA news agency tweeted
that police were attacked in the area and posted a video showing a
police pickup truck that had crashed into a concrete barrier on a
highway. It was not immediately clear what caused the crash, but videos
showed protesters hurling rocks at the vehicle and a man firing into it
as at least three wounded individuals were inside. IRNA later posted
photos of what appeared to be two lifeless bodies. The semiofficial
Tasnim news agency reported that three policemen were seriously wounded
in clashes with protesters. It was not immediately clear it it was
referring to the same event. Tasnim also reported that protesters set
fire to a police kiosk and van. The semiofficial Fars news agency said a
member of the paramilitary Basij militia was stabbed to death in Karaj.
Iranian authorities heavily restrict media coverage of the protests and
have periodically shut down internet access across the country, making
it difficult to confirm details of the unrest.>>
Read more here:
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20221103-clashes-with-police-erupt-near-iran-s-capital-as-protests-continue
The Harvard crimson
2 Nov 2022
By Dalal Hassane, Contributing Opinion Writer
<<Jina Amini was a Kurdish Woman Like Me. Here's Why That Matters.
<Jin, jiyan, azadi!>
From a young age, Kurdish women like myself are introduced to this
powerful phrase, which translates to <women, life, freedom.> Our
families teach us that this phrase is an integral part of the liberation
struggle against the powers that occupy us, coined by Kurdish resistance
fighters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. They teach us that we, too,
are a part of the movement for our homeland; for women, life, and
freedom. In the past month, we've heard people repeat <zan, zendegi,
azadi,> the Farsi translation of this phrase. I see people emphasizing
solidarity with <Iranian women,> to fight for <freedom for Iran,> and to
honor <Mahsa> Amini. While I will always join Iranians in standing
against this regime, I can't help but feel anger and resentment towards
the erasure of Kurdish voices in this movement. After the death of Jina
Amini, I immediately thought of my own mother, who experienced the same
injustices Kurdish women still face in Iran today. After surviving the
1988 Halabja massacre in the Iraqi state, she fled to Iran, where she
lived for three years. Unlike Jina, however, she survived the oppression
and violence that the Iranian regime inflicted, and continues to inflict,
on Kurds. Jina Amini, who was just 22 years old, was from the city of
Saqqez in the Kurdistan province, the same city where the protests after
her death first erupted. The city where Kurds continued to chant <women,
life, freedom> as they have been for decades. Kurds have constantly
echoed this phrase, but people finally joined us only after the Kurds of
Saqqez screamed it in pain in the wake of Jina's death. To see this
revolutionary phrase co-opted into Farsi without the acknowledgment of
Jina's Kurdish identity and its implications for her death is
devastating. This phrase, the phrase I grew up with, the phrase that
helped me reconnect with my Kurdish heritage, was taken away from me -
from us. Many people had never heard of <women, life, freedom> until
they saw it in Farsi, in headlines as part of the movement <for Iranian
women.> Under the Iranian regime, Kurdish names are banned. <Mahsa> was
known to her family, friends, and community as Jina. Jina, the same name
her mother repeated before her grave. Like many Kurdish women across our
homelands, Jina often wore jili Kurdi (traditional Kurdish clothes).
Like me, she heard Sorani Kurdish in her house. She, too, was familiar
with the vibrant colors of the Kurdistan flag, a daughter of the sun.
Jina's Kurdish identity was not irrelevant to her death. It is more than
likely that the morality police knew that Jina was Kurdish when her
brother allegedly pleaded with the police, telling them that they were
not from Tehran, that they were just visitors. Iranian identification
cards include postal codes, which indicate the province the detained
person is from. Jina was from the Kurdistan Province of Iran.>>
Read more here:
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/11/2/hassane-op-ed-jina-amini/
Jinha
Womens Media Center
2 Nov 2022
<<Iranian regime kills 48 students under age of 18.
News Center - The protests that started in Iran and Rojhelat Kurdistan
following the killing of Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini by Iranian
morality police, continue. 48 students under the age of 18 have been
killed by Iranian regime forces since the protests started in the
country. According to the reports received from different sources in
Iran, 48 students under the age of 18, mostly Kurdish and Baloch
children, have been killed by the Iranian regime forces during the
protests.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/iranian-regime-kills-48-students-under-age-of-18-32201?page=1
France 24
1 Nov 2022
Text by News Wires | By Ethan Hajji
<<Despite deadly crackdowns, Iranians continue anti-regime protests.
Iranians staged new protest actions to denounce the country's theocratic
regime in defiance of a crackdown that is now seeing those arrested put
on trial and facing the death penalty.
Iran has for the past six weeks been rocked by protests of a scale and
nature unprecedented since the 1979 Islamic revolution, sparked by the
death in September of Mahsa Amini who had been arrested by the Tehran
morality police. The authorities have warned protesters it is time to
leave the streets but the demonstrations have shown no sign of abating,
taking place in residential areas, major avenues and universities
nationwide. The challenge for the regime is compounded by the custom in
Iran to mark 40 days since a person died, turning every <chehelom>
40-day mourning ceremony for the dozens killed in the crackdown into a
potential protest flashpoint. Residents of the Tehran district of
Ekbatan late Monday shouted protest movement slogans including <Death to
the dictator> with security forces using stun grenades in a bid to stop
the action, according to footage posted on the 1500tasvir monitoring
site and other outlets. The Norway-based Hengaw rights organisation said
the funeral in the mainly Kurdish city of Sanandaj in northwestern Iran
on Monday for Sarina Saedi, a 16-year-old girl it said was killed in the
crackdown, turned into a protest with anti-regime slogans shouted and
women removing headscarves. 1500tasvir also posted a widely shared video
on social media showing medical students protesting in the northern city
of Tabriz telling the authorities <You are the pervert!> in a message to
the morality police. Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) group said
that students were on Tuesday staging a sit-in protest at Isfahan
University while social media footage indicated a similar action was in
progress at the engineering faculty of Amir Kabir university in Tehran.
....
The protests have also seen a myriad of different tactics, with
observers noting a new trend of young people tipping off the turbans of
clerics in the street.
....
'Shocked'
Thousands of people have been arrested nationwide in the crackdown on
the protests, rights activists say, while Iran's judiciary has said
1,000 people have already been charged in connection with what it
describes as <riots>. The trial of five men charged with offences that
can carry capital punishment over the protests opened Saturday in Tehran.
One of the men, Mohammad Ghobadlou, was sentenced to death at the first
trial session, according to a video from his mother posted by the
Washington-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center. However this has not been
confirmed by the judiciary.>>
Read al here:
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20221101-despite-deadly-crackdowns-iranians-continue-anti-regime-protests
The Guardian
Supported by The Guardian
28 Oct 2022
By Deepa Parent
<<Two female journalists who were instrumental in reporting the death of
Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old woman whose death in the custody of Iran's
morality police has sparked nationwide protests, have been labelled as
CIA foreign agents by the Iranian regime.
Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, who were arrested shortly after
news broke of Amini's death and who are reportedly being held in Iran's
notorious Evin prison, were accused of being foreign agents in a joint
statement released by Iran's ministry of intelligence and the
intelligence organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards last night.
The statement, which refers to the two women as NH and EM, also
described the protests as a pre-planned operation launched by the CIA,
Mossad and other western intelligence agencies. The statement, which
accused both women of being <primary sources of news for foreign media>,
accused Hamedi of posing as a journalist and of compelling the family of
Mahsa Amini to release information about their daughter's death. Hamedi
was the first journalist to report from the hospital where Amini was
being treated after collapsing while in the custody of Iranian
authorities, who arrested her for wearing her hijab incorrectly.
Mohammadi has been accused by the IRGC and the intelligence ministry of
receiving training as a foreign agent abroad for her reporting from
Amini's funeral in her home town of Saqqez. Mohammadi was arrested on 22
September and her lawyer said security forces broke down her door and
took away personal items such as her phone and laptop. The statement,
which was sent to Iranian news agencies on Friday evening, has been
received with shock and fear by other Iranian journalists. The crime of
spying for foreign governments carries the death penalty in Iran. More
than 40 journalists have been detained since the protests erupted on
streets across the country. Iran's Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)
estimates that more than 220 people have died at the hands of the
security forces since demonstrations began more than six weeks ago. <They've
accused Niloofar and Elahe of being trained by the CIA. I can't be in
contact with [any foreign journalists] any more,> said Reza*, a print
journalist for an Iranian publication. <They're closely monitoring us
and I have been advised to cut all ties with foreign correspondents. I
have received calls from abroad on my cellphone and if they monitor my
phone records and find that someone from the west was calling, even if
it's a friend, that'll be a huge risk.> Aferin, another journalist
working for an Iranian news source, said the moves to label the two
journalists as spies was part of a concerted attack on the media in
Iran, which would inevitably lead to further arrests as the regime
attempted to prevent news of what was happening on the ground from
reaching a global audience. <Now they'll waste no time punishing the
journalists. They know that there are people inside Iran, like myself,
who are in touch with friends or media abroad. They'll use this
statement and conclusion to make more arrests, or worse, execute their
own citizens for espionage,> he said.>>
* Names have been changed.
Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/oct/29/iran-accuses-journalists-who-reported-mahsa-aminis-death-of-spying-for-cia?utm_term=6363875a8b2d880bdf0e052ede3173da&utm_campaign=GlobalDispatch&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=globaldispatch_email
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