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JINA MAHSA AMINI
The face of Iran's protests. Her life, her dreams
and her death.
Read all about the Iranian Zan, zendagi, azadi
(Women, life, freedom) revolution in 2023!
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Gino d'Artali
Indept investigative journalist
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ASSASINATED BY IRAN'S DICTATORSHIP.
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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 go away!!
So here is where the protests continue and I'll continue to inform you
about it. That's my pledge.
Jinha | Womens News Agency
14 Feb 2023
<<People continue to take to streets in Iran
The popular uprising that started in Rojhilat and Iran has entered its
sixth month. Last evening, people took to the streets in many cities to
protest the regime.
News Center- The protests that started in Rojhilat and Iran following
the killing of Jina Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022 continue. Last
evening, people took to the streets in many cities of Rojhilat and Iran.
The protesters chanted anti-regime slogans, burned Iranian flags and
banners unfurled on state buildings in many cities such as Sanandaj,
Javanrud, Kermanshah, Baneh, Mahabad, Bukan, and Saqez. The protesters
also wrote anti-regime slogans on the walls.
Last evening, the protests also took place in Tehran, Bojnurd, Shiraz,
Hamedan, Bandar Abbas, Isfahan, Karaj, Ahvaz, Izeh, Tabriz, Mashhad, Qom,
Sari and many other cities.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/people-continue-to-take-to-streets-in-iran-32753
Jinha | Womens News Agency
13 Feb 2023
<<Iranian political prisoner Khadijeh Mehdipour released
News Center-Iranian political prisoner Khadijeh Mehdipour has been
reportedly released from Ilam prison in western Iran. Khadijeh Mehdipour
was arrested on October 18, 2022. She was sentenced to 20 months in
prison by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Ilam on charges of
<propaganda against the regime, insulting the founder of the Islamic
republic and insulting its leadership>. >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/iranian-political-prisoner-khadijeh-mehdipour-released-32747
NCRI | Womens Committee
13 Feb 2023
In Women's News
<<Threatened with expulsion, a high school girl falls into a coma
In the midst of the clerical regime's show of amnesty and release of
some prisoners, painful cases of human rights violations continue in
Iran, including a high school girl who fell into a coma after she was
threatened with expulsion from school due to an Instagram post in
support of the Iran protests. Also, many innocent citizens are still in
prison, some are summoned to serve their sentences, and many more are
arrested or sentenced to imprisonment in unfair and summary trials. A
high school girl falls into a coma after being threatened with
expulsion. A 17-year-old high school girl suffering from diabetes fell
into a coma after being threatened with expulsion from school and being
handed over to security authorities, social media reports say.
Zahra Ahmadi, 17, is a high school girl studying at Umm Kulthum High
School in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan. She suffers from diabetes. On
Tuesday, January 11, 2023, the school's principal, Mrs. Sediqi Pirizadeh,
called the high school girl, threatened to expel her from school, and
handed her over to the security authorities for posting stories on
Instagram in support of the Iran uprising. The severe stress from the
threat caused the high school girl to fall into a coma. The school
principal reportedly knew about her history of diabetes.>>
Read more here:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/02/13/a-high-school-girl-falls-into-a-coma/
And also about 5 women sentenced to jail and 1 woman arrested
NCRI | In Famous women
13 Feb 2023
<<Forough Farrokhzad, a poet for all ages
Forough Farrokhzad (December 29, 1934 - February 13, 1967) was the first
Iranian poet to promote the culture of women in poetry.
Expressing her thoughts on discrimination and inequality, Forough
described Iranian women's untold suffering. In a letter dated January 2,
1956, Forough wrote, <My wish is for Iranian women to be free and equal
to men. I am fully aware that my sisters in this country suffer from
men's injustices, and I use half of my art to articulate their pain and
anguish.>
<I need poetry above eating and sleeping, something like breathing.>
Forough Farrokhzad was born in Tehran on December 29, 1934. A famous
contemporary Iranian poet, she published a collection of five volumes:
Captive, Wall, Rebellion, Another Birth, and Let Us Believe in the Dawn
of the Cold Season.
Forough's poetry symbolizes a woman imprisoned by ancient traditions and
seeking the light. Her depth and thoughtfulness were perfectly
articulated in her work, Another Birth, published in 1963. Another Birth
dealt with the social conditions of the time, including dictatorship. In
this work, Forough described a lonely woman who was on the verge of a
cold season, and therefore seeking light and heat. For Forough
Farrokhzad, poetry was not for entertainment. Rather, it was a means to
achieving a goal. Describing poetry, she said, <It's a responsibility I
feel for myself.> She equated being a poet with being human, saying,
<One must be a poet at all times, not just during poetry.>
But she believed deeply that she needed to first make and complete
herself. Forough's brilliance in poetry draws from the human content of
her works. After the Shah's coup d'etat against Iran's nationalist
leader Dr. Mohammad Mossadeq, she called all of Iran a prison. In her
poetry |Gino d'Artali's note: the poetry in this line is a link about
her to it|, Forough longed for a bright future that was free of
oppression and darkness.>>
Do read more here where you'll find thorough information about her life
and incl. poetry by her:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/02/13/forough-farrokhzad-a-poet/
Note by Gino d'Artali: I wrote and published about Forough Farrokhzad about 4 years ago
and recently, since the Zan, Zendegi,Azadi women-led revolution I am
thinking a lot about her now. This is what I wrote about her back then
(2019):
Forough.htm
BBC | By Razia Iqbal BBC News
13 Feb 2023
<<Sara Khadem: Top Iran chess player exiled for refusing headscarf. When
one of the world's most promising chess players, 25-year-old Sara Khadem,
decided to play at an international tournament without her headscarf, in
solidarity with the protest movement in Iran, she thought a warning
would be the worst that would happen to her. Instead, she can't return
to Iran - there are arrest papers waiting for her, and she now lives in
exile in southern Spain, with her husband and one-year-old son. She and
her family asked the BBC not to re-veal her precise location; their
worry is that there may be repercus-sions even thousands of miles away
from Iran. Women in Iran are required to wear headscarves in public,
even when abroad. But a few are choosing not to, in support of the women
and girls spearheading the protests inside the country, following the
death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September. One of them,
the climber Elnaz Rekabi, was forced to recant and it is unclear what
her situation is, now that she is back in Iran. Sara Khadem said there
was a slow evolution of her decision to play in the tournament in
Kazakhstan in December last year without her headscarf. The contestants
only wore them in front of the came-ras, and she felt that was
hypocritical. Given the sacrifices being made by the women and girls on
the streets of Iran, some of them risking their lives, it was the least
she could do, she said. Had she considered joining the demonstrators
herself? <Yes of course,> she replied. But her young son, Sam, held her
back. She said: <I have responsibilities to him, and I thought perhaps I
could use my influence in other ways.> >>
Read more here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64631354
NCRI | Womens committee
In Women's News
12 Feb 2023
<<Victory is Imminent: Mrs. Maryam Rajavi addresses rally in Paris
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of
Resistance of Iran, addressed a rally in Paris by thousands of Iranians
on the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution in 1979 that deposed the
Shah's dictatorship. Mrs. Rajavi paid tribute to the pioneers,
trailblazers, and true leaders of the 1979 revolution who had either
been killed in the field or imprisoned by Shah's secret police, SAVAK,
paving the way for the mullahs and specifically Khomeini to hijack the
leadership of the Iranian people's revolution for democracy and
independence.
In parts of her speech to the rally in Paris, Mrs. Rajavi said: >>
Read it here:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/02/12/rally-in-paris/
Read also (click on the page's uper menu bar):
- Maryam Rajavi's Ten-Point Plan for the future of Iran
August 17, 2015 in Maryam Rajavi
- Maryam Rajavi - on women's rights in tomorrow's Iran
August 17, 2015 in Maryam Rajavi
NCRI | Women committee
12 Feb 2023
<<Womens News - 11 Baha'i Citizens sentenced to over 36 years in prison
in Iran. 11 Baha'i citizens in Alborz province, Iran, have been
sentenced to 36 years in prison and various restrictions on their rights
and activities by the Revolutionary Court of Karaj. The 11 Baha'i
citizens include Afif Naimi, Mahsa Tirgar, Kamyar Habibi, Rameleh
Tirgarnejad, Sabin Yazdani, Elham Sharqi Arani, Nakisa Sadeghi, Sadaf
Sheikhzadeh, Shahrzad Mastouri, Negin Rezaeii, and Saman Ostovar, were
accused of <insulting the Sharia of Islam and doing educational and
propaganda activities against it, participating in the formation of
groups, managing individuals to disrupt the country's security by
promoting Baha'ism among children and adole-scents, educational and
promotional activities contrary to the Sharia of Islam through education
and promotion based on Baha'i teachings in kindergartens, propaganda
against the Sharia of Islam through coaching education.> Eight of the 11
Baha'i citizens sentenced are women, with Rameleh Tirgarnejad facing
three years in prison and a 30 million Toman fine, as well as a 5-year
deprivation of social rights, ban on leaving the country, ban on staying
in Alborz province, and a 2-year ban on educational and cultural
activities. The other women each face 25 months in prison, a fine,
5-year deprivation of social rights, a 2-year ban on staying in Alborz
province, 2-year ban on leaving the country, and 2-year ban on
educational and cultural activities. Elham Shareqi Arani and Sabin
Yazdani face similar restrictions, including three years in prison and
five years of deprivation of social rights. >>
Read more here:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/02/12/11-bahai-citizens-sentenced/
and about:
- Elmira Rahmani, a musician, is still in custody;
- Fariba Kamalabadi sentenced to 10 years in prison
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