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Gino d'Artali
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ASSASINATED BY IRAN'S DICTATORSHIP.
She was severly beaten by the 'morality
police' because she was not wearing her jihab the right way. A
final blow to her head caused her death. Now |
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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
The Guardian
7 Oct 2022
Supported by The Guardian
By Deepa Parent and Annie Kelly
<<Another teenage girl dead at hands of Iran's security forces,
reports claim.
Reports are emerging of the death of another teenage girl at the
hands of security forces in Iran, as protests sparked by the death of
Mahsa Amini looked set to enter their third week. Sarina Esmailzadeh, a
16-year-old who posted popular vlogs on YouTube, was killed when the
security forces beat her with batons at a protest in Gohardasht in
Alborz province on 23 September, according to Amnesty International.
Citing a primary source, a statement by Amnesty International
also claimed that Esmailzadeh's family had been subjected to <intense
harassment to coerce them into silence>, claims denied by Iranian
officials. Today, as news of Esmailzadeh's death spread on social media,
Iran's Isna news agency reported that the chief justice of Alborz
province said that a preliminary investigation had shown the teenager's
death was suicide after she jumped from the roof of a five-storey
building, and that Esmailzadeh had a history of mental health problems.
Esmailzadeh's YouTube videos, which have gone viral on social media
networks, show her listening to music, dancing and talking about her
dreams of travelling. In one widely shared video, Esmailzadeh is seen
singing along to Hozier's Take Me to Church while driving with her
family. In others, she talks about women's rights, including her
rejection of the mandatory hijab, and her anger about the economic
situation in Iran. In private message groups, schoolgirls across Iran
said they were planning protests at the weekend to show solidarity with
Esmailzadeh and Nika Shakarami, the 17-year-old schoolgirl who went
missing on 20 September and was also allegedly tortured and killed by
Iran's security forces.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/oct/07/another-teenage-girl-dead-at-hands-of-irans-security-forces-reports-claim
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: Whatever the Iranian officials declare
I'm and I'm sure thousands of protestants are not buying it. So I'll
only partly quote from the article below because whatever the officials
declare it is only because of fearing that the truth will persevere:
France 24 | AFP
7 Oct 2022
<<Iran says Mahsa Amini died of illness, not 'blows' after
arrest.
....
Amini's bereaved parents have filed a complaint against the
officers involved, and one of her cousins living in Iraq has told AFP
she died of <a violent blow to the head>. Other young girls have lost
their lives at the protests, but Amnesty International says Iran has
been forcing televised confessions out of their families to <absolve
themselves of responsibility for their deaths>.
'Suicide'
The mother of 16-year-old Nika Shahkarami, who died after going
missing on September 20, insisted on Thursday she was killed by the
state after joining an anti-hijab protest in Tehran. Nasrin Shahkarami
also accused the authorities of threatening her to make a forced
confession over the death of her 16-year-old daughter Nika. <I saw my
daughter's body myself. The back of her head showed she had suffered a
very severe blow as her skull had caved in. That's how she was killed,>
she said in a video posted online by Radio Farda, a US-funded Persian
station based in Prague. Iran has since denied reports its security
forces killed another teenage girl, Sarina Esmailzadeh, at a rally in
Karaj, west of Tehran. Its website quoted a prosecutor as saying an
investigation showed Esmailzadeh, 16, had <committed suicide> by jumping
from a building. In a widening crackdown, Iran has blocked access to
social media, including Instagram and WhatsApp and security forces have
rounded up high profile supporters of the movement, including
journalists and pop stars. Protesters have sought ways to avoid
detection, with schoolgirls hiding their faces while shouting <Death to
the dictator> and defacing images of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, in verified videos. Other footage has shown people chanting
the protest catchcry <Woman, Life, Freedom> from their apartment windows
under the cover of night. Another form of protest emerged on Friday
morning, with fountains in Tehran appearing to pour blood after an
artist turned their waters red to reflect the bloody crackdown.
....
Amnesty International has verified the deaths of 52 people killed
by Iran's security forces, but says it believes the <real death toll is
far higher>. In a statement issued a week ago, it said Iran was
inten-tionally using lethal force to crush the women-led protests. It
said it had obtained a leaked document issued to armed forces commanders
in all provinces on September 21 ordering them to <severely confront>
protesters. Another leaked document showed the comman-der in Mazandaran
province told forces to <confront mercilessly, going as far as causing
deaths, any unrest by rioters and anti-revolutionaries>. >>
Read more here:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20221007-iran-says-mahsa-amini-died-of-illness-not-blows-after-arrest
France 24
6 Oct 2022
<<Iran woman accuses state of killing daughter at Mahsa Amini
protest.
Paris (AFP) - The mother of an Iranian teen who died after
joining protests over Mahsa Amini's death accused the authorities of
mur-dering her, in a video sent Thursday to foreign-based opposition
media. Nasrin Shahkarami also accused the authorities of threa-tening
her to make a forced confession over the death of 16-year-old Nika, who
went missing on September 20 after heading out to join an anti-hijab
protest in Tehran. Protests erupted across Iran over the death of Amini,
a 22-year-old Kurd, after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran
for allegedly breaching the Islamic republic's strict dress code for
women. A crackdown by the security forces on the women-led protests has
claimed dozens of lives, according to human rights groups. After Nika
Shahkarami's death, her family had been due to bury her in the western
city of Khorramabad on what would have been her 17th birthday, her aunt
Atash Shahkarami wrote on social media. But Persian-language media
outside Iran have reported that the girl's family were not allowed to
lay her to rest in her home-town, and that her aunt and uncle were later
arrested. The aunt later appeared on television saying Nika Shahkarami
had been <thrown> from a multi-storey building. But her sister said
<they forced her to make these confessions and broadcast them>, in the
video posted online Thursday by Radio Farda, a US-funded Persian station
based in Prague. <We expected them to say whatever they wanted to
exonerate themselves... and they have in fact implicated themselves,>
said Nasrin Shahkarami. <I probably don't need to try that hard to prove
they're lying... my daughter was killed in the protests on the same day
that she disappeared.>
'Forced televised confessions'
The mother said a forensic report found that she had been <killed
on that date, and due to repeated blunt force trauma to the head. I saw
my daughter's body myself. The back of her head showed she had suffered
a very severe blow as her skull had caved in. That's how she was
killed.> Nasrin Shahkarami said the authorities had tried to call her
several times but she has refused to answer. <But they have called
others, my uncles, others, saying that if Nika's mother does not come
forward and say the things we want, basically confess to the scenario
that we want and have created, then we will do this and that, and
threatened me.> Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR) on Thursday
said it held the Islamic republic responsible for Nika Shahkarami's
death. <Contradictory claims by the Islamic republic about Nika
Shakarami's cause of death based on grainy edited footage and her
relatives' forced televised confessions under duress are unacceptable,>
it said. IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam called for an independent
investigation.>>
Read more here:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221006-iran-woman-accuses-state-of-killing-daughter-at-mahsa-amini-protest
The Guardian
5 Oct 2022
By Emma Graham-Harrison
<<Iran to investigate death of schoolgirl in early days of
protests.
Iranian prosecutors have opened an investigation into the death
of a teenage girl during the early days of protests in Tehran, who has
become an icon for the anti-government movement. The popular uprising
against Iran's theocratic rulers was sparked by the death in custody of
Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd detained for allegedly violating
the country's laws on clothing, and has largely been led by women.
Universities have been a battleground for days, and on Wednesday riot
police were deployed around campuses in several cities including Tehran,
Reuters reported, citing witnesses.
<There are lots of security forces around Tehran University. I am
even scared to leave the campus. Lots of police vans are waiting outside
to arrest students,> said one student in the capital.
This week high school students have also taken an increasingly
prominent role. They have attacked symbols of the ruling regime,
including portraits of prominent clerics, taken off their headscarves
and documented their fight against decades-old restrictions in videos
and photos. Schoolgirls were part of street protests in 1979 against the
new Islamic government's compulsory hijab ruling under Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei. Defiance has spread rapidly, despite more than 1,500 arrests
and a bloody government crackdown in which dozens of people have been
killed and hundreds more injured.
Video shared online on Wednesday appeared to show one group of
students chanting <death to Khamenei>. Other schoolgirls shouted <get
lost> at a member of a volunteer government paramilitary force who had
been brought in to speak to them. The death of Nika Shakrami, who would
have turned 17 at the weekend, has become a focus for online activists
who say she was killed during the first days of protests, in late
September. After she went missing, her family spent several days
searching for her before she was confirmed dead.
The government has responded to growing public outrage by
laun-ching an investigation. Officials told state media there were no
bul-let wounds in teenager's body, her death was not linked to protests
and she had fallen from a roof. <A case has been filed in the criminal
court to investigate the cause of Nika Shakrami's death,> the Tehran
public prosecutor Ali Salehi was quoted as saying by the official IRNA
news agency late on Tuesday. <An order to investigate the case has been
issued.> Another state news agency, Tasnim, said eight people had been
arrested in connection with the death.
The government has intensified efforts to stamp out the protests
as they spread around the country and across ethnic and class divides.
Authorities claimed the leaderless movement has been fomented by foreign
agents.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/05/iran-investigation-death-schoolgirl-nika-shakrami-protests-crackdown
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: It's more than obvious that the 'state'
i.e. khamenei are feeling like rats driven into a corner. It are signs
of despair and losing ground.
The Guardian
5 Oct 2022
Supported by The Guardian
By Emma Graham-Harrison and Maryam Foumani
High school girls have become the latest Iranians to join
anti-government protests in large numbers, as the country mourned a
teenager killed in the first days of protests. Nika Shahkarami, who
lived in Tehran and would have turned 17 on Sunday, vanished in
September. Her family found her body in a detention centre's morgue 10
days later, BBC Persian reported. On Tuesday, President Ebrahim Raisi
called for unity against the protests even as they continued to grow,
bringing together Iranians across ethnic and class divides, despite the
government crackdown. He repeated the official government line that the
protest movement was driven by foreign provocateurs but did acknowledge
Iranians were angry about the <shortcomings> of the Islamic Republic.
However public fury is so widespread that even one hardline daily
newspaper openly challenged the authorities, accusing them of being in
denial about their own failings and unpopularity. <Neither foreign
enemies nor domestic opposition can take cities into a state of riot
without a background of discontent,> an editorial in the Jomhuri Eslami
said. <The denial of this fact will not help.> The demonstrations have
lasted nearly two weeks, and represent the most serious popular
challenge to Iran's elderly theocratic leaders in over a decade. And
unlike past protest movements, they have been led by women. They were
initially sparked by the death in custody of a young Kurdish woman who
had been detained by morality police, and the name of Mahsa Amini has
become a digital rallying cry for supporters. But the protests have
expanded into a broader call for change, from a population frustrated by
political controls and economic isolation and stagnation. Security
forces have responded with live ammunition and brutal violence, killing
over 50 people already and arresting over 1,500. But Iranians have
continued to come out into the streets, and in their homes, schools and
offices attack or remove pictures of the two supreme leaders who have
ruled since the revolution - Ayatollah Khomeini and now Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei. In one video from a classroom a girl replaced an image of the
pair with the slogan of the protest movement, footage shared on social
media showed. In another image, a group of teenagers photographed
themselves making obscene gestures towards the two men. The protesters
have adopted a rallying cry that originated with Kurdish female
fighters: <Women. Life. Freedom>. In videos from across Iran, women are
walking and dancing in the streets without their hair covered, and
burning their scarves. Where people are not able to march, they have
organised indoor protests and evaded a government internet crackdown to
upload videos and photos.
....
On Monday students protested against mass arrests in Tehran, with
a demonstration in the conservative city of Mashhad, whe-re they
suggested so many of their number had been detained that the country's
most infamous prison looked more like a campus. <Sharif University has
become a jail! Evin prison has become a university,> they shouted.
Sharif University became a battleground at the weekend, with students
besieged by security forces using teargas and many were arrested.
Schoolgirls marched in the streets without their hijabs, shouting
<Women. Life. Freedom> in the city of Karaj, west of the capital, and in
the Kurdish city of Sanandaj, according to widely shared footage.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/iranian-schoolgirls-take-up-battlecry-as-protests-continue
The Guardian
5 Oct 2022
By Patrick Wintour | Diplomatic editor |Analysis
<<Are the protests in Iran just doomed to flare and then be
crushed?
<This is not a protest anymore. This is the start of a
revolution,> chanted a group of students outside the science department
of Mashhad University, as the unprecedented protests in Iran over the
death of Mahsa Amini continued into their 18th day on Monday. That
assessment, at least until recently, was not shared by Washington or
European capitals. Expressions of support have been issued by the White
House, some sanctions imposed and vague promises to loosen the Iranian
regime's blockade of the internet made. But overall the Biden
administration has assessed this uprising as doomed to flare and then be
crushed under the boots of the Revolutionary Guards. That after all is
the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The baton, censorship and
the police cell has a long and successful track record of violently
quelling dissent. Overseen by the 83-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei, the Middle East's longest serving ruler, it seems
implausible that Iran's deeply entrenched conservative leadership would
abandon its normal instinct for a security response. It has worked in
the past. In July 1999, demonstrations by University of Tehran students
sparked by the closure of a reformist newspaper linked to the then
president, Mohammad Khatami, turned the capital into a battlefield. The
security services went through the dormitories picking up ringleaders,
and after six days, the protests were crushed. Many of the students
remained in jail for up to six years and their demands for a free press
and less screening of parliamentary candidates were ignored. The women's
rights protests of 2005 and 2006, including the One Million Signatures
campaign in support of legal equality, even-tually foundered after more
than 50 of its members were arrested and many left for exile, worn down
by state harassment. Again, in 2009, after the apparent rigging of a
presidential election result, the Green movement spontaneously took to
the streets, three-million strong, under the slogan <where is my vote?>.
The confrontation was symbolised by the death of 26-year-old Neda
Agha-Soltan, an aspiring musician, who was shot by a sniper as she stood
at the edge of a protest. A mobile phone video that captured her dying
on the pavement circulated the world in much the same way as the picture
of Amini on a hospital bed. It took the state six months, but the
protests became more sporadic as they were crushed through mass arrests,
show trials and the killing of scores of middle-class demonstrators. In
forced confessions on TV, the protesters had to admit they had been in
league with the US.
In 2019, the security services shot dead as many as 1,500 people
when downtrodden working-class Iranians protested after the sudden
tripling in petrol prices. So if the past is a tutor, it is easy to
write the obituary of this round of protests. The arrests have already
started, including of influential jour-nalists such as the comment
editor of Shargh newspaper and the reporter that first broke the story
of Amini's custody. The scale of the crackdown is disputed, but it is
reported that in Zahedan in Sistan and Baluchestan province as many as
57 have died after protests over the police rape of a girl while in
northern Iraq camps Tehran said hosted Kurdish opposition groups were
indisputably strafed by its drones. The fact that official sources say
400 students in the Greater Tehran area alone have been released after
questioning shows the scale of the round-up. Khamenei used the old
playbook to claim the riots were being created by familiar villains, the
US and Israel. The UK ambassador to Tehran was also summoned, accused of
fermenting the protest. Every effort is being made in the media to
separate the protesters from a legitimate concern about the death of
Amini, portraying them as either western agents or intoxicated by the
internet. The interior minister has criticised the protest slogan
<woman, life and freedom>, derived from Kurdish liberation movements,
saying those chanting it seem to see freedom in the nakedness and
shamelessness of women.>>
Do read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/05/protests-iran-violence-leaderless-movement-young-women
And opinion by Gino d'Artali: Read my words: this time you'll win
Kurdish and Iranian women and men!!
France 24
5 Oct 2022
<<Iran unprecedented protests spreading as high schoolers join
movement.
Iranian schoolgirls have come to the fore in protests over the
death of Mahsa Amini, removing their hijabs and staging sporadic rallies
in defiance of a lethal crackdown by the security forces. FRANCE 24's
Observer Ershad Alijani tells us more.>>
View her here:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20221005-iran-unprecedented-protests-spreading-as-high-schoolers-join-movement
France 24 | Text FRANCE 24
5 Oct 2022
<<French actresses cut hair in solidarity with protesting Iranian
women.
Leading French actresses including Juliette Binoche and Isabelle
Huppert have cut locks of hair in public displays of protest over the
death of Mahsa Amini, the young Iranian woman who died in police
custody, and in solidarity with protesting Iranian women. In a video
clip posted on Instagram, Binoche proclaimed, <for freedom,> in English
before snipped off a handful of her hair and holding it up to the
camera. Binoche was joined by other leading French actresses and
singers; including Marion Cotillard and Isabelle Adjani in cutting their
hair, with an audio track playing a Persian rendition of Italian protest
song <Bella ciao>. It came a day after more than 1,000 French film
professionals, including actor Lea Seydoux and Cannes Film Festival head
Thierry Fremaux, signed a petition <supporting the revolt by women in
Iran>.
Women removing their headscarves and cutting their hair has been
a key image of the protests in Iran that broke out last month. They were
sparked by the death of Amini, following her arrest by Iran's <morality
police> who enforce Iran's strict dress code that requires women to
cover their hair in public. <The Iranian people, with women in front,
are risking their lives to protest. These people want only the most
basic freedoms. These women, these men, deserve our support,> said a
message accompanying the video on Instagram. The post has been widely
relayed on other social media, including Facebook and Twitter.
'Only a first step'
Iran's clerical rulers have been grappling with the biggest
na-tionwide unrest in years since Amini's death and protests have spread
abroad including London, Paris, Rome and Madrid in solidarity with
Iranian demonstrators. Protesting Iranian women deserve the support of
the international community, said French lawyer Richard Sedillot, who
initiated the action. <When you feel alone, it's very, very important to
know that you have support abroad,> said Sedillot in an interview with
FRANCE 24. <When everything is so difficult in your own country, you
hope that people abroad are with you.> >>
(FRANCE 24 with AFP and Reuters)
Read more and view the embedded video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20221005-leading-french-actresses-cut-hair-in-solidarity-with-protesting-iranian-women
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