JINA MAHSA AMINI
The face of Iran's protests. Her life, her dreams and her death.
In memory of Jina 'Mahsa' Amini, the cornerstone of the 'Zan. Zendegi. Azadi revolution.
16 February 2023 | By Gino d'Artali
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Iranwire - 7 Dec 2023
<<Canada Launches Deportation Case Against Iranian Ex-Official
Canada has launched a deportation case against Seyed Salman Samani, a former senior Iranian government official who was found living in Toronto, according to Canadian media. Global News reported on December 6 that Samani, 42, is facing a deportation hearing under sanctions introduced in November 2022 that banned senior officials of the Islamic Republic from Canada. Samani was appointed deputy Interior minister in 2016. It is not clear when he left the position. Proceedings were scheduled to begin on January 3 next year, according to the report. The case is said to be the first under Canada's sanctions, imposed over the Islamic Republic's bloody crackdown on anti-establishment protests that rocked Iran last year. The policy effectively barred tens of thousands of Iranian officials and members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from entering the country. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) told Global News it was launching deportation proceedings against nine Iranian officials under the sanctions.
One case was withdrawn because the person left Canada and two were at the stage of scheduling hearings, the CBSA said. The Canadian government has also designated the Islamic Republic of Iran a state sponsor of terrorism and included the IRGC's expeditionary Quds Force on Canada's list of terrorist entities.>>
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https://iranwire.com/en/news/123272-canada-launches-deportation-case-against-iranian-ex-official/


Jutyar Ashrafzadeh
Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 7 Dec 2023
<<Jutyar Ashrafzadeh Arrested and Transferred to Naghadeh Prison
Jutyar Ashrafzadeh, a resident of Piranshahr arrested during the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi movement and subsequently sentenced to prison by the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has been arrested and transferred to Naghadeh Central Prison to serve his prison sentence. According to reports received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, Jutyar Ashrafzadeh was arrested after being summoned to the court for the execution of sentences in Piranshahr. He was then transferred to Naghadeh Central Prison to commence his 21-month sentence. Jutyar Ashrafzadeh, a detainee of the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi movement in Piranshahr, was initially sentenced to three years in prison by the Revolutionary Court of Piranshahr in September, charged with <gathering and collusion against national security.> However, the Court of Appeal later reduced this verdict to 21 months of imprisonment. It is important to note that Mahosh Tawasali, Jutyar Ashrafzadeh's wife, received a two-year house arrest sentence with electronic cuffs from the same court on charges of propaganda against the regime. Both Mahosh Tawasali and Jutyar Ashrafzadeh were arrested at their home on Thursday, October 20, 2023, during the popular protests in Piranshahr. They were subsequently released from prison by posting bail temporarily pending the conclusion of legal proceedings.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2023/12/jutyar-ashrafzadeh-arrested-and-transferred-to-naghadeh-prison


Sepideh Rashno
Iranwire - 7 Dec 2023
<<Iranian Translator Reshno Sentenced to Over Three Years in Prison
A Revolutionary Court in Tehran has sentenced Sepideh Rashno, a 29-year-old translator and editor, to four months in prison, bringing her total prison term to three years and 11 months, her lawyer says. Lawyer Milad Panahipour told the Shargh newspaper on December 5 that the new sentence was imposed for <publishing obscene images> on social media. Rashno was arrested in July 2022 after she was filmed arguing with a woman on a bus over the mandatory headscarf. Two weeks later, state TV aired a program showing her giving a forced confession while signs of beatings were visible even on her face. In June of this year, she announced that she was released on bail after being summoned again by the authorities, but was <banned from leaving Tehran.> Previously, she had reported that Al-Zahra University had banned her from studying for two semesters due to the <non-observance of Islamic clothing> All women in Iran must conceal their hair with a hijab while in public and wear loose fitting trousers under their coats. A growing number of Iranian women who refuse to wear a head covering have been arrested and prosecuted amid a wave of protests sparked by the September 2022 death of Mahsa Amini while in police custody after being detained by police for allegedly wearing her headscarf improperly.>>
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https://iranwire.com/en/women/123267-iranian-translator-reshno-sentenced-to-over-three-years-in-prison/

Iranwire - 6 Dec 2023 - by SOLMAZ EIKDAR
<<The Role of Mazut in Iran's Air Pollution Crisis
Decades of misguided environmental policies have contributed to the air-pollution crisis in Iran, where Tehran and other major cities have long been among the world's most polluted. Iranians decry that there had only been three days of clean air recorded in the capital during the last Persian year, which ended in March, and urge the authorities to do more to address the problem. Officials persist in attributing air pollution primarily to car emissions, but the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns revealed the fallacy of blaming vehicles for the crisis. Experts instead point to the authorities' use of dirty mazut, a low-quality heavy fuel oil, in power plants and other factories, especially when natural gas shortages hit during the hard winter months. Despite mounting evidence, the head of Tehran City Council, Mehdi Chamran, and other officials continue denying the key role of mazut in the pollution crisis. However, statements from officials at the Tehran Provincial Council's Health Committee and the Environment Protection Organization indicate internal divisions on the issue. An expert from the Environment Protection Organization has acknowledged that buses, trucks and private cars contribute less to particulate matter emissions than power plants, refineries and industries. Meanwhile, Radio Farda cited confidential documents of the Oil Ministry as showing that last year, an average of 25 million liters of high-sulfur mazut and 110 million liters of diesel were consumed daily in the country. According to the same document, nearly 10 million liters of MTBE and other dangerous substances are used every day to compensate for gasoline shortages.>>
https://iranwire.com/en/news/123253-the-role-of-mazut-in-irans-air-pollution-crisis/

Iranwire - 6 Dec 2023
<<Iranian Businessman Sent to Prison in High Profile Fraud Case
The Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency has announced the transfer of entrepreneur Mohammad Rostami Safa to prison to serve a 15-year sentence for fraud. Rostami Safa, the owner of the Rostami Safa Industrial Group, was sentenced in August for defrauding three major Iranian banks between 2003 and 2013. Rostami Safa obtained large loans in foreign currencies and rials from these banks that he never repaid. He was charged with <disrupting the monetary and foreign currency exchange system of the country> and <defrauding the banks by presenting false documents.> The businessman was ordered to repay the banks and deprived of any government position.>>
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https://iranwire.com/en/news/123242-iranian-businessman-sent-to-prison-in-high-profile-fraud-case/

Iranwire - 6 Dec 2023
<<Iranian Blogger Gets Suspended Prison Sentence
An Iranian court handed down a five-year suspended prison sentence to a blogger on the charge of <inciting others to commit violent acts,> IranWire has learned. Donya Hosseini, 35, was also fined 88 million tomans ($1,760) and banned from using smartphones. The trial took place on November 29, four days after her release from Tehran's Evin prison on bail. IranWire has reported that Hosseini also appeared before the Revolutionary Court to face three security-related charges. No ruling has been issued yet on these accusations. According to the indictment issued by the court, the blogger is accused of <inciting people to engage in war and violence against each other,> <encouraging public participation in riots and commemorations of Mahsa Amini's death with the intent to disrupt the country's security,> and <engaging in propagandistic activities against the Islamic Republic system and society.> Hosseini, who was active on Instagram under the pseudonym Donya Azad, was arrested on August 12 and had her electronic devices confiscated. She was first arrested during nationwide protests last year for her social media activism. The monthslong demonstrations were sparked by the September 2022 death in police custody of Mahsa Amini.>>
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https://iranwire.com/en/women/123247-iranian-blogger-gets-suspended-prison-sentence/

Iranwire - 6 Dec 2023
<<Iranian Authorities Put Ex-Student Activist Abdi on Trial
An Iranian former student rights activist has gone on trial on charges of <propaganda against the system,> <collusion> and <promotion of corruption,> IranWire has learned. Ali Abdi, an ex-member of the Sharif University of Technology Islamic Association of Students, returned to Iran on June 22 following 14 years of exile. Before his arrest, he participated in discussions on the popular social networking platform Clubhouse. He was also involved in the 2006 One Million Signatures Campaign to repel gender-discriminatory laws. Before his return to Iran, he had traveled to Afghanistan to work on his doctoral thesis but had to leave the country after the Taliban returned to power in 2021. He earned his master's degree in gender studies in Budapest, Hungary, and pursued a doctorate in anthropology at Yale University in the United States.>>
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https://iranwire.com/en/news/123238-iranian-authorities-put-ex-student-activist-abdi-on-trial/


Sharifeh Mohammadi
Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 5 Dec 2023
<<Rasht: Sharifeh Mohammadi arrested by security forces
Sharifeh Mohammadi, a Gilak labor activist, was arrested by the security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the city of Rasht. According to the report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, at noon on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, Sharifeh Mohammadi, a labor activist from Rasht, was arrested by the Iranian Intelligence forces and taken to an undisclosed location. According to an informed source, the Iranian Intelligence forces raided her house and arrested her without presenting any judicial warrants. So far, detailed information about the reasons for the arrest, the charges, and the fate and whereabouts of Sharifeh Mohammadi have not been made available.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2023/12/rasht-sharifeh-mohammadi-arrested-by-security-forces


Mohammad Parham Vardal
Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 5 Dec 2023
Karaj; Mohammad Parham Vardal sentenced to six years in prison
Mohammad Parham Vardel, a civil activist and one of the theater activists who spent two months and twenty days in detention, was sentenced to six years in prison by the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to the report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Mohammad Parham Vardal, a resident of Golshahr Karaj, was recently sentenced to five years in prison by Branch 1 of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court of this city on the charge of <gathering and collusion against security> and to one year on the charge of <propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran> Which make up a total 6 years of imprisonment. According to the Consolidation of Sentences Law, the punishment for Mohammad Parham Vardal will be equal to five years of penal servitude. According to an informed source, Mohammad Parham Vardal was denied access to a lawyer and other basic rights during his detention. Mohammad Parham Vardal was arrested by IRGC intelligence on September 16, 2023, and was transferred to Karaj Central Prison on October 8, 2023, and has been held there ever since.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2023/12/karaj-mohammad-parham-vardal-sentenced-to-six-years-in-prison

Iranwire - 5 Dec 2023
<<Labor Activist Said Arrested While Trying to Flee Iran
Iranian border forces have arrested labor rights activist Narges Mansouri while she was <attempting to leave the country illegally,> semi-official media reported. The Mashregh News website, which is closely affiliated with security institutions, reported Mansouri's arrest on December 5.
Mansouri, a member of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company Workers' Union, has been arrested, interrogated and tried many times in recent years.
In May 2022, the official IRNA news agency reported that the activist was arrested while trying to illegally exit the country during a prison leave.
Mansouri is one of 14 women activists in Iran who signed in 2019 a letter calling for the resignation of Ali Khamenei. She was sentenced to six years in prison for insulting the Islamic Republic's supreme leader.>>
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https://iranwire.com/en/news/123210-labor-activist-said-arrested-while-trying-to-flee-iran/

Jinha - Womens News Agency - 5 Dec 2023 - by ŞABNAM TAVAKOLI
<<People with disabilities face barriers in Iran when they go outside alone
Iran- A physical disability may be present from birth, or even as the result of the birthing process. It may result from an illness or an injury later in life. A physical disability may result from wars and occupations, accidents, migration, poverty, health policies, wrong vaccination, patriarchal culture, child marriage, domestic violence and many more. December 3 is annually observed as International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society and development. The theme of the IDPD 2023 is <United in action to rescue and achieve the SDGs for, with and by persons with disabilities>. 1.3 billion people experience significant disability and this represents 16% of the world's population, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). However, neither societies nor states make sufficient efforts to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities, except for observing IDPD. One of the barriers faced by persons with disabilities is discrimination. Women with disabilities are subjected to double discrimination: sexism as well as disability bias. Girls and young women with disabilities face up to 10 times more gender-based violence than those without disabilities, according to a study of UNFPA. Girls and women with disabilities face significant barriers in accessing equal education, athletics, housing, and employment. Women with disabilities often encounter barriers to accessing reproductive health services. The cities and public spaces are not planned and designed to meet the needs of persons with disabilities. Physical inaccessibility of public spaces is another barrier faced by persons with disabilities.
'I cannot go out alone'
Negar M. is a 33-year-old woman with physical disability in Tehran, Iran. She has been using a wheelchair for several years. In an interview with NuJINHA, she complained about the physical inaccessibility of public spaces in Tehran. Speaking about the barriers faced by her when she visits a shopping center alone. <Shopping centers generally have several floors and they are not designed to meet the needs of persons with disabilities. I cannot go to shopping centers. I have to buy what I need online or ask my family to buy them. Even parking spaces are not accessible to people with disabilities. I cannot go out alone. Someone should come with me when I go out. Going out alone is a dream for me.> >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/people-with-disabilities-face-barriers-in-iran-when-they-go-outside-alone-34241?page=1

Iranwire - 5 Dec 2023
<<Arrested Iranian Rapper Salehi Transferred To Isfahan Prison
After days of uncertainty surrounding the whereabouts of detained dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi, his lawyer said his client had been transferred to Dastgerd prison in Isfahan. Lawyer Amir Raisian wrote on the social media platform X that Salehi informed his family on December 4 of his transfer to the prison the previous evening. Salehi was rearrested on November 30, less than two weeks after his release on bail. The artist had spent nearly 13 months in custody, including 252 days in solitary confinement. The judiciary's Mizan news agency said that he is accused of <publishing false information and disturbing the public mind.> Raisian called the rearrest unlawful and the charge against Salehi totally unfounded. Salehi, 33, was initially arrested in October 2022 after making public statements in support of nationwide protests that had erupted the previous month. A court sentenced him to six years and three months in prison in July on a charge of <corruption on Earth.> The rapper was freed on bail on November 18 after the Supreme Court returned his case to a lower court. In a video published on his YouTube channel on November 27, Salehi said that he neither admitted guilt nor cooperated with the security forces, despite the torture and other ill-treatment he endured while in custody.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/123191-arrested-iranian-rapper-salehi-transferred-to-isfahan-prison/

Iranwire - 5 Dec 2023
<<Another Kolbar Killed by Border Forces in Western Iran
Iranian border forces have shot dead a transborder porter, or kolbar, in the western province of Kurdistan, according to Kurdish human rights activists. The man, identified as 28-year-old Ahoon Dashti, was shot without warning near the Hengezhal border crossing in Baneh district on December 5, in yet another unlawful shooting of an unarmed Kurdish kulbar who worked under cruel and inhumane conditions. The latest incident brings the total number of kolbars killed by Iranian forces in Baneh over the past month to 17. Just within the past week, three kolbars have been killed in the area. The kolbars are porters who haul goods on their backs across the borders of Iran and over long distances, mostly in the impoverished, mountainous Kurdish areas adjacent to Iraq, to make a living. The Iranian authorities label kolbars as <smugglers,> but human rights organizations maintain that their activity is a form of survival for many men living in impoverished border regions where economic opportunities are scarce. From 2012 to the end of 2021, at least 547 kolbars died and more than 1,601 were injured in Kermanshah, West Azerbaijan and Kurdistan provinces, according to the Kolbar News website.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/123193-another-kolbar-killed-by-border-forces-in-western-iran/
Read also <IRGC kill Kolbars>

Iranwire - 5 Dec 2023
<<Home Searches, Threats, Imprisonment: Baha'is in Iran Face Intensified Persecution
The Baha'i International Community (BIC) has denounced an <escalation and intensification> of the Iranian government's <policy of systematic persecution> against the religious community. Baha'is, the largest non-Muslim religious minority in Iran, have been persecuted since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and are today <suppressed in all areas of life,> BIC says in a statement on December 4. It said the authorities are using a range of <new and ever harsher methods> to persecute the Baha'is, including <home raids and searches, arrests, trials, prison terms, land and property confiscations, hate speech, the denial of education, and the denial of burial rights and of basic citizenship rights.> The aim of these new tactics is <to sow fear and confusion, to disenfranchise and further impoverish Baha'is, to prolong the harassment of individuals, and to instill feelings of uncertainty and thus rob all Baha'is of peace and security in their daily lives.> There are currently at least 70 individuals either in detention or serving prison sentences, the largest number in the past six years, BIC says. About 1,200 others are either involved in ongoing court proceedings or have been sentenced and are awaiting the summons to serve their prison terms. Sentencing by the courts has become increasingly harsh, with tens of Baha'is sentenced to a combined total of hundreds of years in prison in recent weeks. Since the beginning of October, 40 Baha'is have been arrested and the homes of close to 100 families have been <invaded and searched,> according to BIC. The home invasions and searches resulted in the <complete ransacking of homes,> the statement says, adding that in some cases, agents removed ceramic floor tiles, broke furniture and destroyed musical instruments. <In other cases, homes have been subjected to intrusive surveillance through the installation of surveillance cameras trained on the doors of the homes of Baha'i families, to monitor their activities and visitors,> the statement says. The authorities threatened several of the households that experienced raids with serious additional repercussions should they disclose details of their experience to outside parties, it says. Agents have also deleted smartphone videos, CCTV videos, and other records, in an effort to eliminate any evidence of their actions. BIC says more than two-thirds of those arrested and detained in this recent upsurge in attacks on the Baha'is have been women. Many of them are in their 20s and 30s and have been forcibly separated from their young children. Many of the raids occurred when young children were present, <intensifying fear and panic within the families.> Many of those arrested have been detained without trial for extended periods; one individual has been in detention for more than 247 days. Detained Baha'is are routinely interrogated and face threats and psychological pressure and abuse, leading in some cases to physical harm, BIC says. <Long and unjust> prison terms are being handed down by the courts for Baha'is on trumped-up charges such as <membership of the deviant Baha'i sect> or <social activities with the intention of propagating the heretical Baha'i sect.> Several members of the minority have been sentenced to long prison terms for their humanitarian assistance.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/bahais-of-iran/123190-home-searches-threats-imprisonment-bahais-in-iran-face-intensified-persecution/


Zohreh Sarv
Iranwire - 5 Dec 2023
<<Alarm Raised Over Health of Political Prisoner on Hunger Strike
Two political prisoners incarcerated in Tehran's Evin prison have warned about the deteriorating health of fellow inmate Zohreh Sarv, who has been on a hunger strike for more than 10 days. The plight of Sarv, detailed by Sepideh Qolyian and Mahboobeh Rezaei in a letter obtained by IranWire, outlines a pattern of disregard for prisoners' rights within the country’s judicial system. Sarv is serving a six-year prison term on charges of <gathering, colluding and propaganda against the system> stemming from her activities on social media. She launched her hunger strike on November 23 to protest against the harsh treatment and injustices she has faced since her arrest in October 2021. Over the past decades, many political prisoners in Iran have suffered from serious medical complications caused by hunger strikes, and some have lost their lives. In their letter, Qolyian and Rezaei described Sarv as a victim of the <unadulterated corruption of the judiciary.> <Under the unbridled influence of the [Islamic] Revolutionary Guard [Corps] within the judicial system, Sarv's lawyer and herself were denied access to the case file throughout the investigation and trial phases,> they wrote. In the absence of any evidence, the court sentenced Sarv <on the orders of the interrogator,> they said, adding that her conditional release has been repeatedly denied despite having served one-third of her sentence. <The interrogator informed Zohreh that her release hinged upon agreeing to work for the IRGC in Iraq,> the letter reads. For 27 months, Sarv has not been able to meet her 75-year-old mother, who is unable to leave the house due to her old age and a hip fracture. The old woman has been attended by a nurse during her daughter's imprisonment.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/123196-alarm-raised-over-health-of-political-prisoner-on-hunger-strike/ 

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