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 - 15 Dec 2023 - by PAYAM YOUNESIPOUR
<<Little Progress: Women Granted Access to Tehran Stadium
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has trumpeted that his policy of engagement with the Islamic Republic of Iran over the discriminatory treatment of women in football is bearing fruit after a small group were allowed into the Tehran derby this week. Around 3,000 women were granted access to Azadi Stadium on December 14 to attend the Iran Pro League match with nearly 60,000 men, after Infantino met in September with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in New York to discuss <progress made regarding the presence of women in football stadiums.> <It was, therefore, with great delight that I learned around 3,000 women attended the Tehran derby between Persepolis FC and Esteghlal FC today. Thanks to the ongoing dialogue between FIFA and the Islamic Republic of Iran Football Federation, progress is being made,> the head of football's world governing body said in a statement issued on the social media platform X. For more than four decades, Iran's clerical establishment has opposed the idea of women being allowed in stadiums with male fans, and only a restricted number of them have been allowed to attend a few games in recent years. There has been minimal progress on the issue since calls were made on FIFA last year to ban Iran from the World Cup in Qatar because of the continued exclusion of women from football matches. The calls came against the backdrop of women-led nationwide protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while she was in police custody for allegedly wearing her mandatory headscarf improperly. The testimony of a young Iranian woman who sought to attend the Tehran derby this week highlights the challenges faced by women who wish to attend men's sport events. She said she had witnessed several women being denied entry to the stadium despite having valid tickets. <They were told that the seats were full and to go home,> the woman said. <Their tone was harsh. One of the officers even shouted, 'Either you leave or we'll take you away.'> The witness herself, who asked to remain anonymous, tried to purchase tickets online shortly after they went on sale, but a message stated that the stand was already full. <Tickets were being sold on the black market for between 2 and 5 million tomans ($40 - $100),> she said. <My sister and I decided to go to the stadium in person to see if we could get tickets.> In 2019, a football fan named Sahar Khodayari died after setting herself on fire over fears that she would be jailed for trying to attend a match while wearing a disguise. Infantino said he would be traveling to Iran <in the near future to further discuss football-related matters> <Iran is a significant force in Asian football and it is important that we continue to nurture the positive and fruitful working relationship we have built,> he added.>>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/123571-little-progress-women-granted-access-to-tehran-stadium/

Iranwire - 15 Dec 2023
<<Jailed Baha'i and War Veteran Denied Basic Needs in Prison
Behrouz Farzandi, 57, a former prisoner of war during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War and a member of the persecuted Baha'i religious minority who is currently in jail, has been barred from shopping at the prison store for over 60 days and thus unable to obtain basic and essential items for his daily needs. Access to the store is managed through a shopping card - which prison authorities have withheld from Farzandi. The shopping card, typically issued for up to three days by the relevant bank, has been withheld from Farzandi despite multiple requests by him and his family over the past two months. This arbitrary denial of access to basic necessities poses a serious threat to Farzandi's health, -particularly considering the heart and digestive ailments he developed during his captivity during Iran's war with Iraq. Prolonged deprivation of proper nutrition and other essential items could have irreparable consequences for his well-being. In November 2021, Branch 1 of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court sentenced Farzandi to seven months and 16 days in prison on the charge of <propaganda against the Islamic Republic> and to 31 months and 16 days in prison for the charge of being a <member of anti-government groups.> The original verdict was upheld by the appeals court. Under Article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code, the harshest punishment - 31 months and 16 days in prison - is applicable. On March 7, 2022, Farzandi was again summoned to the Revolutionary Court, and was arrested begin serving his prison sentence and was transferred to Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz. Farzandi was sent on medical leave after four months of imprisonment due to heart problems. During his leave, he underwent surgery at Kowsar Hospital of Shiraz to repair 95 percent blockages in his heart. Baha'is are routinely denied their fundamental rights to freedom of religion or belief. They face systematic persecution in all areas of life, including arbitrary arrests and imprisonments, home searches and property confiscations, access to education and livelihoods, as well as official hate speech in Iranian media, and even the right to proper burials.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/bahais-of-iran/123565-jailed-bahai-and-war-veteran-denied-basic-needs-in-prison/


Armita Pavir
Iranwire - 15 Dec 2023
<<Tabriz Activist Sentenced to Nearly Two Years in Prison
An Iranian court has sentenced Armita Pavir, an activist incarcerated in the northwestern city of Tabriz, to a total of 22 months and 17 days in prison, IranWire has learned. The Azershahr Revolutionary Court issued the sentence after convicting Pavir of <propaganda against the system> and <insulting> the Islamic Republic's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Under the Islamic Penal Code, 15 months and one day of the sentence will be enforceable if the sentence is upheld on appeal. Pavir was first detained during protests in Tabriz on October 31 last year. Before that, she was expelled from Tabriz's Azerbaijan Civil University for her student activism. The activist ran a Telegram channel where he shared her daily experiences and emphasized the need to keep up the resistance against the Islamic Republic to bring changes in her country. Her latest arrest occurred on September 13. Security agents have retained her mobile phone and electronic devices and pressured her to sign a letter of apology to justify her arrest. The judiciary claimed to have arrested her for <financial> reasons, citing a debt she allegedly owed the university for running a cafe at Tabriz Madani University. However, an informed source has told IranWire that this was merely a pretext, as she remained incarcerated despite having paid the debt and damages. In an audio file received by IranWire, Pavir said she had launched her hunger strike on November 12, the second since her arrest, in protest of her incarceration.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/123558-tabriz-activist-sentenced-to-nearly-two-years-in-prison/

Iranwire - Dec 15 2023
<<Iranian Journalist Elnaz Mohammadi <Forced to Resign>
Iranian journalist Elnaz Mohammadi says she was forced to resign from Hammihan newspaper a month ago. <I was forced to leave the social group [desk] that we formed with Elahe with great enthusiasm in July last year,> Mohammadi wrote in a post on her Instagram on December 14. In September, Elnaz Mohammadi received a three-year suspended prison sentence for covering the monthslong <Woman, Life, Freedom> protests.
Her sister Elahe Mohammadi, who is also a journalist, is serving a 12-year prison sentence in Tehran's Evin prison. <There are many reasons behind my resignation, but it's better that I don't say. I don't want to reveal more than that,> Mohammadi said. Dozens of journalists were among more than 10,000 people unlawfully detained following the eruption of nationwide protests last year. Many journalists have been released on bail while awaiting trial or have been issued summonses to serve multi-year sentences. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, has urged the Islamic Republic to <stop the widespread persecution of human rights defenders and journalists.> The Committee to Protect Journalists has said that the Iranian authorities <must realize that jailing journalists and critical voices won't help them in hiding Iran's difficult realities,> while Reporters Without Borders accused the Islamic Republic of exacting its <revenge against journalists who....have fulfilled their duties in serving the public's right to news and information.> >>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/journalism-is-not-a-crime/123563-iranian-journalist-elnaz-mohammadi-forced-to-resign/


Mahsa Yazdani and her son Mohammad Javad Zahedi
NCRI - Womens committee - 14 Dec 2023 - in Women's News
<<Mahsa Yazdani, the mother of slain protester, is summoned to serve 5 years in prison
Mahsa Yazdani was sentenced to 13 years in jail for seeking justice for her slain son. Mahsa Yazdani was summoned, today, Thursday, December 14, 2023, to report to the Office of the Implementation of Verdicts within three days to serve her five years of prison time for seeking justice for her son. She has another son, only four years old. The First Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Sari had handed down a 13-year sentence to Mahsa Yazdani, the mother of a slain protester, Mohammad Javad Zahedi. The first branch of the Revolutionary Court has sentenced Mahsa Yazdani to two counts of five-year sentences for <insulting the sanctities> and <provoking people against national security.> She is sentenced to two years for insulting Ali Khamenei, and to one year in prison for <activities against the Islamic Republic.> These make a total of 13 years. According to the clerical regime's punishment law, Mrs. Yazdani would have to serve five years in prison. Branch 8 of the Revision Court of Mazandaran Province upheld this verdict.
Security forces in Sari, the capital of Mazandaran Province, arrested Mahsa Yazdani on August 22, 2023, before the anniversary of last year's Iran protests. Mahsa Yazdani was temporarily released on 1.5 billion Toman bail on October 12, 2023. Mohammad Javad Zahedi, 20, was shot and killed from close range with a pellet gun by security forces on September 22, 2022. The NCRI Women's Committee condemns the inhuman sentences issued by the mullahs' regime for the families of slain protesters who seek justice for them and calls on human rights advocates and the UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in Iran and the United Nations fact-finding mission to inquire about these cases and hold the regime accountable.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/12/14/mahsa-yazdani/

Iranwire - 15 Dec 2023
<<11 Police Killed In Attack in Iran's Baluchistan - State TV
At least 11 Iranian police officers were killed in an overnight attack on a police station in the restive southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, an official told state television. <In the terrorist attack on the police headquarters in the town of Rask, 11 policemen were killed, and others were wounded,> the deputy provincial governor, Alireza Marhamati, said on December 15. A number of assailants were also killed in ensuing clashes, the report said, adding that the attack was claimed by the Sunni militant group Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice). The impoverished province of Sistan and Baluchistan borders Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is home to a Sunni Baluch minority of up to 2 million people in a country where the population is predominantly Shia. Human rights groups say the Baluch population and other minorities in Iran face widespread discrimination in the judicial system and their everyday lives, with the authorities curtailing their access to education, employment, adequate housing and political office. Unrest in Sistan and Baluchistan province has involved drugs-smuggling gangs, Baluch rebels and Sunni extremists. The provincial capital, Zahedan, was the scene of months-long deadly protests that erupted in September last year. Sistan and Baluchistan has been the scene of similar attacks in the past, including in July 23 when four police officers were killed while on patrol. Two weeks earlier, two policemen and four assailants died in a shootout claimed by the Jaish al-Adl group. And in May, state media reported that five Iranian border guards were killed in clashes with <a terrorist group that was seeking to infiltrate the country.> >>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/provinces/123556-11-police-killed-in-attack-in-irans-baluchistan-state-tv/

Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 14 Dec 2023
<<Piranshahr; Four Kurdish clerics sentenced to eleven years in prison
Four clerics from Piranshahr Sharif Mahmoodpour, Seyed Suleiman Ahmadi, Seyed Jamaluddin Vaji, and Younes Nokhah were sentenced to 11 years in prison by Iran's special clergy court. These four clerics were arrested last year in connection with the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi movement. According to the report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Sharif Mahmoodpour and Seyyed Jamaluddin Vazhi, the imams of the village of <Passen> in Piranshahr, were each sentenced to two years in prison, Seyed Suleiman Ahmadi, the Imam of Salahuddin Ayubi School of Religious Sciences in Piranshahr was sentenced to four years in prison, and Yunus Nokhah who is also one of the teachers of Salahuddin Ayoubi School of Religious Sciences, was sentenced to three years in prison. These clerics have been sentenced to prison by Iran's Special Clergy Court in Urmia on charges of <signing the statement of Kurdistan clerics in support of the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi, Movement, and participation in protests>, <action against national security> and <confounding the public opinion>. Seyed Suleiman Ahmadi and Yunus Nokhah were arrested on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, and following that month they were temporarily released on bail until the end of the proceedings. Also, Seyyed Jamaluddin Vaji and teacher Sharif Mahmoodpour were arrested on the evening of Monday, January 23, 2023, and were temporarily released respectively on February 8 and 12 with bail of 500 million until the end of the proceedings.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2023/12/piranshahr-four-kurdish-clerics-sentenced-to-eleven-years-in-prison


The wanderer
Personal message from Gino d'Artali
*FireOur precious house Iran is set on fire by the mullahs' regime as they're hunting now for and not only the women but all freedom, equality and democracy loving people, and yes, mostly the brave women, but more and more also the women's rights activists; the students and teachers; the journalists; the artists; the Sunnis; the Baluchis; the Azeris; the Basa'is; the Kurds; the Kolbars and soo many more people of all walks of life, origins and beliefs. The mullahs' regime wants to burn them all or bring them to the gallows to hang them unless they beg for mercy. But the faithfull people to and of Iran will not do so because they believe also in what, whom I call the mother of Iran, Narges Mohammadi, says: "Victory is not easy, but it is certain"
And so do I, at the service of all good and rightfull people of Iran. But yes, when doing my service 24/7 my heart is bleeding too when I again and again realize how the mullahs' regime makes the people suffer. But in realizing it it makes my strenght to continue what I do only stronger and more determined and one day I'll march with the freedom, equality and democracy loving people of Iran to the Azadi tower to help raise the flag of Victory.
Long live a long and free Iran.*
Gino d'Artali - an Italian at birth and an Iranian at heart too.

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