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Unfortunately this is a new part of the Zan, Zendagi,
Azadi revolution i.e. JINA-FFF meaning FacingFaces and Facts. And the
real name of Jhina was Jina Mahsa Amini.
Below you will find the gruesome menu and when you click here
www.cryfreedom.net/JHINA-FFF.htm it'll bring you when I started FFF.
Gino d'Artali
Indept investigative journalist
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ALL PARTS OF THIS SPECIAL DEDICATED TO JHINA MAHSA AMINI AND ALL OTHERS
ASSASINATE TORTURED, WOUNDED, KIDNAPP AND/OR BEATEN TO DEATH BY IRAN'S DICTATORSHIP.
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
NCRI
Womens news agency
17 Jan 2023
<<Brave Iranian women lose their eyes, but their hearts still beat for Iran
Ghazal Ranjkesh: I still haven't seen the day I <must> see; I know it's close,
very close
Many inspiring moments have been created during the Iran uprising, which has
continued relentlessly for four months. From bereaved but proud parents who
celebrate the death of their children for the freedom of their country besides
their tombs, to women and girls who cry out <Martyrs never die> at the graves of
their husbands and fathers, to the brave Iranian women who despite losing their
eyes and vision are still seeking the liberation of their people and their
country.>>
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/01/17/brave-iranian-women-lose-eyes/
Note from Gino d'Artali: see in the article a photograph depicting Ghazal
Ranjkesh: <I still haven't seen the day that I <must> see, I know it's close.
Very close>...
Jinha - Womens news center
10 March 2023
<<At least 17 children killed by Iranian forces, Baloch activists' group says
News Center- The Baloch Activists Campaign, a Baloch activists' campaign group
based in Sistan and Baluchestan Province of Iran, has announced that at least 17
children were killed in the province by Iranian forces. The group has also
announced that 15 people have lost their eyes due to the attacks of the security
forces. On September 30, 2022, Iranian security forces opened fire on
protesters, violently cracked down on protesters in Zahedan and later opened
fire on worshipers holding the Friday Prayers in the Jameh Mosque of Makki. In
the massacre, also known as <Bloody Friday>, more than 100 people were killed,
more were injured and dozens were arrested.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/at-least-17-children-killed-by-iranian-forces-baloch-activists-group-says-32904?page=1
Iranwire - By Aida Ghaidar
11 March 2023
<<Blinding As A Weapon (21): The Victory Of Light Over Darkness
....
In the series of reports <Blinding As A Weapon,> IranWire presents the victims'
stories told in their own words. Some have posted their stories, along with
their names and pictures, on social media. Others, whose real names shall not be
disclosed to protect their safety, have told their stories to IranWire, which
can make their identities and medical records available to international legal
authorities. This is the story of Ali Tahoneh, a 34-year-old man who lost his
job after sustaining serious injuries on both eyes during protests in the city
of Karaj. Despite the odds, he regained some vision, but he remains haunted by
the memory of wounded children.
***
<I asked, 'Is sadness visible in the eyes?' And you said that sometimes it can
be seen, and sometimes it cannot.> Tahoneh posted this exert of a radio
broadcast on his Instagram page almost four months after sustaining eye
injuries. The young man lives in Karaj, near Tehran, but he is originally from
Ahwaz, in the south. After his father died many years ago due to illness, he
dropped secondary school to enter the job market and financially support his
mother and sister. For a living, the child moved 18-kilogram oil drums or
70-kilogram sacks of pistachios in Ahvaz, which experiences extreme heat in
summers and harsh winters. As Tahoneh grew older, he developed new skills during
his two-year mandatory military service, which allowed him to start a car repair
business, with a specializa-tion in hydraulic power steering systems. Despite
rapid inflation, his clients say he was compassionate, giving discounts or even
working for free, but he was still able to cover rent, taxes as well as living
expenses for the family. But Tahoneh's eye injuries forced him to stay at home,
just when he was starting to pay off his debts.
They Shot to Kill
It happened in Karaj late on September 22, in the early days of nationwide
protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality
police. Tahoneh and his friends were partici-pating in a protest when dozens of
fully armed security forces confronted the chanting crowds. In a parking lot,
riot police fire shots in his direction as he tried to help an old man lying on
the ground covered in blood. Some of the pellets hit his head and hand, and he
sought shelter in a dead-end alley amid tear gas smoke. An officer pointed a gun
at him with a green laser light that hurt his eyes. The agent fired and Tahoneh
collapsed on the ground, unable to see any-thing. The security forces were
approaching him when the sounds of protesters grew louder and closer, forcing
the officers to flee. A local resident found Tahoneh in the dead-end alley and
helped him. Even-tually, his friends took him to a Tehran hospital where he
underwent three surgeries in the span of 10 days. <During that period, we saw
several children who had been shot in the eyes during protests,> one of his
friends said. <Despite their young age, they were forced to endure excruciating
pain and wait for treatment. It was heart-wrenching seeing their eyes drained.>
The eye surgery was success-ful, and Tahoneh eventually regained his vision
despite a difficult recovery process. For five months, he slept on his stomach
in a dark room, lost weight and had to avoid stress to prevent further damage to
his eyes.>>
Read more here about another heroes' story:
https://iranwire.com/en/blinding-as-a-weapon/114611-blinding-as-a-weapon-21-the-victory-of-light-over-darkness/
Iranwire
7 March 2023
By Aida Ghajar
<<Blinding As A Weapon (20): Babayi, The Birdwatcher Who Sacrificed An Eye
As IranWire has reported, hundreds of Iranians have sustained severe eye
injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas cannisters, paintball bullets or
other projectiles used by security forces amid a bloody crackdown on mainly
peaceful demonstrations. Doctors say that, as of now, at least 580 protesters
have lost one or both eyes in Tehran and in Kurdistan alone. But the actual
numbers across the country are much higher. The report concluded that such
actions by the security forces could constitute a <crime against humanity,> as
defined by Article 7 of the Rome Statute.
....
This is the story of Helia Babayi, or <Heli,> a young woman who plays the
traditional string instrument tar, loves nature and is a birdwatcher. She lost
her left eye during protests in Isfahan province.
<Hello. I am Heli. Birdwatcher. Wildlife love....Environmental semi-activist.
Instrumentalist. Narrator. Salsa dancer.> This is how Babayi introduces herself
on her Instagram page. When browsing through her posts, one video shot in a room
decorated with relief work of ancient Persian figures catches the eyes. She is
sitting on a chair with an ankle bracelet, wearing a skirt imprinted with
musical notations and playing a well-known tune. Shot at Close Range
On December 22, 2022, Helia first wrote about that fateful night. It was a few
days before the stitches on her cornea were to be removed. She did not know
whether her injured eye would return to its normal shape. It all happened on
October 26: <They had put up the fences in the mall. People were escaping from
bloodthirsty space aliens wearing military uniforms. I was listening to a
gentleman who was saying that pellets had missed his leg, and I was imagining
what it would be like to be hit with pellets. Is it like in action movies when
the guy is hit and sprawls on the ground? Everything was quiet. I turned toward
the fence. A space alien with a light-colored military uniform was standing
behind the fence. I think we were two or three meters apart. I could not see his
face because he was holding his shotgun in front of his face and its barrel was
protruding from the green fences in the mall. It was right in front of my face.
The same guy whose god was merciful and compassionate .... and BANG!> Heli saw a
flash of light, a whitish yellow light. The impact was so strong that she could
not feel her eye or, perhaps, <felt it more strongly than ever.>. Then she fell.
The first thing that she did was to touch her necklace, a necklace inscribed
with the words, <Be Brave.> And the first voice she heard was her own: <Dad, I'm
blinded!> She was afraid that she could no longer see nature and the birds.
Heli's father came to her help. He lifted the young woman and took her to a
bathroom to wash her face. She was afraid to look in the mirror: <I was afraid
that it would be horrible, but I did look for a few short moment....Fortunately,
I could see nothing of my face because it was covered with blood....That night
blood covered the eyes of many people.> Helie was taken to hospital in a black
car. She never saw that face of the man who had rushed to help. It was a
20-minute ride to the hospital. Her eye, her lips, her shoulders and her chest
were on fire. Heli was suffering from Covid-19 as well and, that night, with
each cough, the broken pieces of her glasses moved around and worsened the
injury in her cornea. She grabbed her father's hand and stayed silent. <If one
drop of these people's blood must be shed then it must be my blood, too,> she
wrote.>>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/blinding-as-a-weapon/114507-blinding-as-a-weapon-20-babayi-the-birdwatcher-who-sacrificed-an-eye/
IranWire
6 March 2023
By Ghaida
<<Blinding As A Weapon (19): The Man Who Turned His Shooter Into A Poem
As IranWire has reported, hundreds of Iranians have sustained severe eye
injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas cannisters, paintball bullets or
other projectiles used by security forces amid a bloody crackdown on mainly
peaceful demonstrations. Doctors say that, as of now, at least 580 protesters
have lost one or both eyes in Tehran and in Kurdistan alone. But the actual
numbers across the country are much higher. The report concluded that such
actions by the security forces could constitute a <crime against humanity,> as
defined by Article 7 of the Rome Statute. IranWire has explored this question
more deeply in an interview with prominent human rights lawyer Professor Payam
Akhavan, special advisor to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
and former member of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. In this series of reports, IranWire presents
the victims' stories told in their own words. Some have posted their stories,
along with their names and pictures, on social media. Others, whose real names
shall not be disclosed to protect their safety, have told their stories to
IranWire. IranWire can make their identities and medical situations available to
international legal authorities. This is the story of Ali Velayati, a
24-year-old man who had to work since he was 14. He lost an eye during the first
week of protests triggered by the September death of Mahsa Amini, as well as his
job. Among his Instagram posts, one poem catches the eye: <You shot at my eyes/
You knew not that shooting does not end the turmoil/ But do not worry/ I will
draw another world/ on the dark of my pupil/ This time though/ I will create
you/ as a poem> A video shared on social media show protesters in the streets of
Narmak on that evening, shouting slogans against the Islamic Republic. Velayati
and his friends participated in protests in previous nights as well. Narmak
district was one of the first areas that were rocked by protests.
A White Flash, then Darkness
It was around 10 p.m. when security forces, both on foot and on motorcycles,
rushed toward the unarmed protesters. Velayati was shot in the torso and the
legs by an agent who was sitting on the backseat of a motorcycle. The young man
saw a white flash, fell and lost consciousness. <When we were going out to
protest, we thought we might get arrested or killed, but we didn't know they
would shoot us with pellets,> says a friend who also participated in the
demonstration. Velayati's friends and other protesters brought him to the home
of a local resident who had opened his door.
According to Velayati's friend, he passed out several times. After being
rejected from several hospitals, he was finally admitted in one where he was
told that a pellet was lodged just 1 millimeter from his brain.
Two Surgeries, 20 Days in a Dark Room
A friend of Velayati says that his treatment has cost more than 50 million
tomans up until now. He has had two surgeries to make his eye appear normal and
is waiting for his third one. To prevent the retina from getting detached,
silicone oil has been injected into the eye, but this oil must now be extracted
because the iris is turning white, according to this friend. Velayati must now
undergo laser surgery to prevent the detachment of the retina.
....
However, Velayati can drive his motorcycle for short distances and socialize
with his friends. He also continues to post on his Instagram page. The young man
does not need an eyepatch but continues to wear one.>>
Read his complete corageous story here:
https://iranwire.com/en/blinding-as-a-weapon/114462-blinding-as-a-weapon-19-the-man-who-turned-his-shooter-into-a-poem/
Iranwire
3 March 2023
By Solmaz Eikdar
<<Blinding As A Weapon (18): <They Robbed My Eye, Not My Voice>
This is the story of a young man of 26 who lost his left eye in the first days
of the nationwide protests triggered by the September death of Mahsa Amini in
the custody of morality police. Despite his ordeal, he remains defiant: <I'm
still a protester. They robbed me of my eye, but they cannot rob me of my
voice.>
***
Like other young men and women of his generation, he was unhappy with
corruption, poverty and inequality, and on September 20, 2022, four days after
Amini's death, he became a <protester.> In the afternoon of that day, he was
returning home from work when he came across a demonstration on Tehran's
Keshavarz Boulevard: <Women were at the forefront. I felt that I belonged there,
and I joined them.> <We were shouting slogans when masked motorcyclists rushed
toward us. They played with the accelerator to make loud noises and frighten us,
but we were not frightened because we were now protesters.> He makes a
distinction between <protesting> and being a <protester:> <We all have been
protesting for 40 years but a protester is different. Somebody might protest by
grumbling, but becoming a protester means going to the street, shouting and
paying the price for it.> The day he joined the protesters he was aware he might
be arrested, injured or even killed, but he accepted the risks: <I became a
protester on the day I wasn't frightened by the sounds made by the altered
exhaust pipes of the plainclothesmen's motorcycles and shouted, 'Death to the
dictator' even louder.>
Then the shooting started.
At around 4 p.m., groups of protesters started gathering along Keshavarz
Boulevard. Internet services were frequently interrupted, but eyewitnesses
reported that the security forces in central areas of Tehran were firing
teargas, paintballs and pellets at the demonstra-tors. On Keshavarz Boulevard,
the protests grew, and protesters kept shouting slogans against the regime and
its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, calling him <our disgrace.> <
Protesters pulled out the fences in the middle of the boulevard to create
obstacles in the path of the security forces. Fires were lit to weaken the
effects of teargas. And our young man lost his left eye.
<I Think about Nothing Else but their Downfall> <Five pellets went right into my
eye....Nothing remains of my eye. The pupil and the retina were shredded. Right
now, I have an artificial cornea in my eye.> The young man speaks with a lump in
his throat, and it is difficult to distinguish his words. Now, he says, he is
going to take good care of his remaining eye to be able to witness the downfall
of the Islamic Republic: <I really want to see them go. I think about nothing
else but their downfall.> Other protesters took him to hos-pitals, but they
didn't admit him. In one hospital, the injured esca-ped when security agents
raided the wards. Protesters say that many hospital staff did their best to
treat the injured, and some even refu-sed to receive any payment. But ongoing
investigations by IranWire show that most hospitals were either under the
control of security forces or medical staff were afraid to admit injured
protesters. The young man was denied emergency care and was forced to return
home, where he spent the whole night with the intense pain caused by the pellets
in his eye. He finally underwent eye surgery on November 1, 2022, 40 days after
being shot.
<I'm Hungry but I Kept my Honor>
<I have lost my eye but not my audacity as a protester.>
The young man continues to participate in street protests. He says he has turned
the anger and the grief over the lost eyes of hundreds of protesters into a
motivation for fighting on, pulling off the mullahs' turbans and attending the
mourning ceremonies for those killed. Being a protester does not stop there. He
says he has resigned from his government job and has given up his benefits: <I
felt that my honor would be damaged if I continued to work there. I could not
take it anymore. After I recuperated, I went there and submitted my resignation.
I gave up my insurance and had to pay for my treatment out of my own pocket, but
I did get out of there.> <You know how the economic situation is,> he says.
<Sometimes I have to do with only one meal a day. I'm hungry but I kept my
honor.> >>
Read his full story here:
https://iranwire.com/en/blinding-as-a-weapon/114386-blinding-as-a-weapon-18-they-robbed-my-eye-not-my-voice/
Iranwire
3 March 2023
<<Blinding as a Weapon: An Ophthalmological Review
Over many months of protests, Iranian demonstrators have been assaulted,
arrested, and, in some cases, have lost their lives. Violent crowd control
methods have been reported since protests began in September 2022, including the
firing of metal pellets, an indiscriminate and brutal practice that does not
just injure; it maims.
When individuals are shot in the head with metal pellets, sometimes dozens of
times, eye wounds are inevitable. As this IranWire report shows, these painful
injuries can cost a person their appearance, sight, and even their eyes. In
Iran, reports of injured eyes among demonstrators and bystanders are not
uncommon, but it's hard to quantify exactly how often they occur. Fear of
further consequences may prevent victims from seeking immediate medical care,
and, in some cases, doctors may be hesitant to treat the wounds of protesters.
But the fact that eye patches have become a symbol of pride among demonstrators
in Iran shows a clear link between the demonstrations and blinding as a weapon
to suppress these protests. This report is an attempt to document a small
portion of these injuries. IranWire is aware of more than 50 serious eye
injuries sustained by protestors and bystanders over the past five months.
Around a dozen individuals have provided their medical records for this report.
With the help of three independent ophthalmologists, we have reviewed these
records and compiled a comprehensive medical report. Our cohort includes men and
women, adults and children, demonstrators and bystanders. Mostly under 40, these
patients will feel the effects of their injuries for decades. The youngest - a
five-year-old shot in the head some twenty times with metal pellets - will never
see from her left eye again. The ophthalmologists' invaluable efforts provide
context to largely opaque and often sparse medical records, full of acronyms and
technical terms unknown to most of us. As a result, the experts have given our
report a fuller sense not just of how seriously each patient has been injured
but of how these injuries will fundamentally affect their lives.>>
Read the article and the experts report here:
https://iranwire.com/en/features/114366-blinding-as-a-weapon-an-ophthalmological-review/
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