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. Zendagi. Azadi revolution.
17 February 2023 | By Gino d'Artali - Updated 23 February 2023
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Gino d'Artali
Indept investigative journalist
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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.
 
NCRI - Womens committee
In Women's news
23 Feb 2023
<<Samaneh Asghari languishes in jail, facing serious charges
Despite the clerical regime's claims about releasing political priso-ners, many prisoners are still detained under deplorable conditions. One of the protesters still detained in Qarchak Prison is Samaneh Asghari. Samaneh Asghari, who is a children's rights activist and an industrial engineering student at Kharazmi University, was arrested on October 11, 2022, and detained in Ward 209 of Evin Prison. She was later transferred to Qarchak Prison, where she remains in custody. According to the indictment issued by Branch 8 of the Shahr-e Ray Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office, Samaneh Asghari faces a range of serious charges, including <assembly and collusion to commit a crime against internal and external security,> <disrupting public order and peace,> <sedition,> <inciting people to fight and kill each other with the intention of disrupting the country's security,> <propaganda against the state,> <being in public without a religious hijab,> <membership in domestic groups or branches of groups whose aim is to disrupt the country's security,> and <spreading lies.> Asghari's case has been assigned to Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court, which will prosecute some of the charges, while the charge of disturbing public order and peace has been moved to Criminal Court 2. Samaneh Asghari's lawyer has revealed that the court has rejected her request for temporary release.>>
Read more here:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/02/23/samaneh-asghari/
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- <Bloody Friday victim passes away>...
and - <Law student dies after being released from prison>....

NCRI - Women's committee - In podcast
23 Feb 2021
<<Iranian Women Want Their Freedom of Choice
Iranian women's right to freedom of choice in choosing what to wear, clothing, and covering has been a contentious issue in Iran for many years. The mandatory Hijab was enforced by the mullahs' regime after the 1979 Revolution, especially considering the recent uprising in Iran sparked by the death in custody of a young woman for flouting the mandatory dress code. For thousands of years in Iran, women's clothing and covering were a matter of personal choice, a social issue that was never deemed a privilege. Iranian women choose to wear the Hijab and cover their hair and body depending on their tendencies and the culture in which they were brought up. However, this changed with the advent of dictators who sought to impose rules on women's clothing. During the Pahlavi Dynasty's rule, Reza Shah passed legislation in the parliament in 1936 banning Iranian women and girls from wearing any form of Hijab, covering their head, face, and body. The next dictator, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, repealed the law after widespread public protests in 1941.
But the mullahs' regime made a round turn on the issue of the Hijab after seizing power in 1979. The mullahs' reactionary interpretations of Islam, including the mandatory veiling of women, were made into law and institutionalized in the country's Constitution and other legal codes. The issue of the Hijab, an entirely personal choice for women at all times, has now become central to the clerical rule. Women who fail to observe the Hijab are considered to pose a national security threat to the regime's pillars. It's important to note that the compul-sory veil is only the tip of an iceberg of flagrant violations of women's human rights in Iran in every respect. This is why women in Iran have been fighting to overthrow the entire clerical regime and its religious tyranny that intervenes even in the most minute details of their everyday life and tightens their breathing space in the social atmosphere.
Iranian women deserve to have freedom of choice
After all, no one tells men what to wear. Women should have the same freedom of choice. The desire of Iranian women is for absolute gender equality. Still, they know very well that until this regime is overthrown, they will not achieve any of their rights, demands, and freedoms, including the freedom of choice in choosing their attire.
Women should have the right to choose what they want to wear without coercion or pressure from the state. What a woman wears should always remain a matter of personal choice. But Iranian dictators have always dictated to women what to wear. Whether it was the Pahlavi Dynasty or the current regime, women's clothing and covering have been used as a tool for oppressing women and imposing the will of the state on them.The reality is that women in Iran have been fighting for their rights for many years, with the issue of women's status and equality being a focal point of the Iranian Resistance for the past 37 years.>>
Read more here:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/02/21/freedom-of-choice/

NCRI - In Women's News
21 Feb 2023
<<Political prisoner Nejat Anvar Hamidi detained since 2019 without a day off
Political prisoner Nejat Anvar Hamidi has been incarcerated since March 2019 to serve her 15-year sentence in the Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz. She has not had any day off, even for medical leave. Ms. Anvar Hamidi suffers from Thyroid malfunction, high blood pressure, blood lipid, and chronic headache. She also suffers from cataracts and experienced eye bleeding due to a lack of medical attention.
Sepidar Prison authorities deprived her of receiving her medications. On January 15, 2022, the prison's doctor told her, <You don't need any operation until you go blind!> After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, she contracted the virus and was quarantined while deprived of medical care. Political prisoner Nejat Anvar Hamidi is 67 and married with a daughter. She was imprisoned for 28 months during the 1980s for supporting the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the main Iranian opposition force.She and her husband and daughter were arrested for the second time in 2017. She was interrogated and sentenced to five years for <membership in dissident groups on the internet> and <propaganda against the state.> In March 2019, she was called to serve her jail time in the Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz among ordinary prisoners violating the prin-ciple of separation of crimes. Ms. Anvar Hamidi was later informed that she and her husband, Akbar Mohammadi, had been sentenced to another 15 years in prison for <membership in the PMOI/MEK> and
<propaganda against the state> by the 4th Branch of the Justice Department of Ahvaz, while no new charges had been leveled against them.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/02/21/political-prisoner-nejat-anvar/

Iran international
20 Feb 2023
<<Iranians Chant Overnight Slogans, Set Khamenei Banner Ablaze
Iranians once again held anti-regime protests and engaged in acts of defiance in Tehran and other cities on Sunday. Several neighbor-hoods of capital Tehran once again witnessed overnight anti-government slogans by protesters. People in Jannat Abad west of Tehran chanted slogans like <Death to the Dictator> and <Freedom, Freedom, Freedom> from inside their houses and residential complexes. Baqeri town in the west of the capital, which is home to many IRGC staff, was also the scene of anti-government slogans. <Death to Khamenei>, <Death to the IRGC> were among the nightly slogans of the protesters in this town. Protesters in Ekbatan, west of Tehran, also chanted <Death to the dictator> and <Death to Khamenei>. This comes as security forces set up checkpoints at the entrances of Ekbatan Sunday evening. Despite the extensive arrests of residents Ekbatan has been one of the main hubs of protests in the capital since the beginning of unrest against the Islamic Republic after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini in September. In Narmak neighborhood in the east, people chanted <Death to the dictator>, <Death to the child-killing regime> and <Death to Khamenei, damn Khomeini>. In the cities of Rasht in the north and Bandar Abbas in the south, the protesters also wrote slogans on the walls, and in Yasouj in the southwest, they set fire to regime placards, including a large banner showing the image of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.>>
Source:
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202302202370

NCRI - In Articles - Women's News
20 Feb 2023
<<Fanatic Group Threatens Poisoning of High School Girls in Iran
A group of extremists in Qom has distributed threatening leaflets, declaring that girls' education is forbidden and vowing to spread the poisoning of high school girls to schools across Iran. This comes after over 400 students, mostly high school girls, have been treated for poisoning symptoms since December. Despite the determination by medical staff that a microbial gas caused the poisoning, intelli-gence agencies have silenced the issue. There have been recent incidents of respiratory poisoning in Tehran. The continued poisoning of high school girls in Qom sparked protests by families demanding a transparent investigation. Extremist group claims responsibility for the poisoning of high school girls in Qom On February 18, a group of extremists in Qom, known as Fadayeen-e Velayat (suicidal suppor-ters of Khamenei), distributed leaflets declaring that it is forbidden for girls to study and that their education is tantamount to waging war on the 12th Shiite Imam. The group has threatened to spread the poisoning of girls to schools across Iran if girls' schools are not shut down. Fadayeen-e Velayat has previously carried out attacks under the orders of Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the mullahs' supreme leader. The Iranian Resistance's President-elect Maryam Rajavi had already declared that <Female students' chain poisoning in Qom over 3 months, now in Tehran, is no accident but a systematic crime driven by a misogynistic regime's malicious intent. Iranian girls' role in the uprising has doubled the regime's hysteria.> She urged for an international investigation. In another tweet on Monday, February 20, she said, <Catastrophic poisoning of high school girls in Qom continues as regime's prosecutor acknowledges possibility of deliberate criminal actions. Like acid attacks in Isfahan, implicates #IRGC, Intelligence, and other official agencies.> >>
Read more here:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/02/20/high-school-girls-in-iran/

Iran International
20 Feb 2023
Iran News Room
<<Massive Rally In Brussels Calls For Designating IRGC As Terror Group
An estimated crowd of more than 20,000 held a rally in Brussels to call on EU countries to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. A diverse group of figures delivered speeches in the Belgian capital condemning the Islamic Republic and its multi-functional armed force, the IRGC, expressing solidarity with the dissidents in Iran who have been out on streets since September protesting for the fall of the clerical regime. Alireza Akhondi and Darya Safai, two representatives of Iranian origin in the parliaments of Sweden and Belgium were among the original organizers of the rally, meant to push the EU for the inclusion of the IRGC in the list of terrorist organizations in the European Union. During the demon-stration - accompanied by musical and theatrical performances, women's rights activist Masih Alinejad called for unity among Iranian opposition figures, a demand which has been echoed repeatedly by prominent activists since a historic forum in Washing-ton earlier this month by eight prominent dissident activists heralded a united front. Alinejad said, <The secret of our victory is our unity. We are scarred by the same regime for years... We will not win if we do not hold each other's hands.> Canada-based activist leader Hamed Esmaeilion, whose daughter and wife were killed by the IRGC in the shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner in 2020, said that the Revolutionary Guard was established to defend the Islamic Revolu-tion and not the Iranian people. <There is still no mention of Iran in the name of this institution,> he noted. <After the war with Iraq, the Revolutionary Guard became an economic and security monster, and today it is the most important instrument to suppress the people of Iran,> he added. <In future Iran, there'll be no IRGC. Army will protect the country's territorial integrity. Military won't interfere in politics. And the economy will be controlled by experts instead of eulogists in uniform,> he said.>>
Read more here:
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202302202702

Iran international
20 Feb 2023
<<Politicians Say Ignoring The People Led To Iran Protests
A reformist figure in Iran says the government has no will to com-municate with the people amid a full-fledged crisis, which increases public dissatisfaction and anger. While Iran has been overwhelmed by street protests for more than five months, Ahmad Khorram, a cabinet minister in the late 1990s and early 2000's reformist government said in an interview with moderate news website Rouydad24 that Iranian officials are reluctant to listen to the people as they have lost their sensitivity to their expectations. Pointing out that the use of violence is the government's first and often only res-ponse to people's demands and protests, Khorram said that violent approaches have not worked elsewhere in the world, and they will not work in Iran either. He observed that what is happening today is extremely different from what was meant to happen after the 1979 revolution. He said the government responds with insult and violence to anyone asking why this has happened. This approach, Khorram said, has eroded people's trust in the government. The turnout in the latest elections in Tehran was around 26 percent, Khorram observed, adding that the government's own opinion polls show that its popularity has plummeted to less than 20 percent in recent months. Critics say that amid sanctions and economic hardship, the regime decided that loyal hardliners should take over the parliament in 2020, and then using its veto power over candidates, arranged for an ill-prepared hardliner become president in 2021. He said that inqui-ries by reformists during a meeting with the country's top officials has revealed that they are aware of the crisis, but they are reluctant to address it properly and that they have no plans to tackle the existing dissent.>>
Read more here:
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202302204763

17 Feb 2023
Iran international
<<French President Hails Formation Of United Iranian Opposition
The French president has praised a united front among eight leading Iranian opposition figures formed earlier in February, promising to meet with the united group. Three members of the group, Prince Reza Pahlavi, Masih Alinejad and Nazanin Boniadi are participating in the Munich Security Conference, while Iranian officials have not been invited. On the sidelines of the conference Emmanuel Macron had a friendly encounter with women's rights activist Masih Alinejad, one of the eight dissident figures. During the short conversation, a video of which was published in Alinejad's twitter account, Macron said that <I want to congratulate you and all the members of the coalition for joining and teaming up nicely to support.> <To us and the civil society, what's happening in Iran is very important. And I'd be very happy to meet all of you, altogether because this message of unity is important,> he added. Alinejad told Macron that leaders of leading countries are calling the current wave of antigovernment protests across Iran <a revolution,> adding that <France is all about revolution, and you're going to be the voice of Iranian women.> >>
Read more here:
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202302174992
 
 
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