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.
16 February 2023 | By Gino d'Artali
And also
Read all about the assasination of the 22 year young Jhina Mahsa Amini or Zhina Mahsa Amini (Kurdistan-Iran) and the start of the Zan, Zendagi, Azadi (Women, life, freedom) revolution in Iran  2022
and the latest news about the 'Women Live Freedom' Revolution per month in 2023:  July 15 -1--June 30 - 15--June 15-1--May 31 -16-- May 15-1--April--March--Feb--Jan
And
For all topics below that may hopefully interest you click on the image:
all updates 16 June 2023

CLICK HERE ON HOW TO READ ALL ON THIS PAGE

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 committee - in Women's news - June 21, 2023
<<Life of Atena Farghadani at risk in notorious Qarchak Prison
The life of Atena Farghadani is at risk due to poisoning and physical assault by ordinary prisoners in the notorious Qarchak Prison. Mr. Mohammad Moghimi, her lawyer, announced on his Twitter account, <The life of Atena Farghadani is in danger. My client, Atena Farghadani, discovered that her food was poisoned in Qarchak Prison and refrained from eating it. When she went to the prison buffet to get food, she was beaten and injured by several ordinary criminals hired by the regime.>
Life of Atena Farghadani is at risk in notorious Qarchak Prison
Mohammad Moghimi added in another tweet, <Ms. Farghadani has started a dry hunger strike in protest against the poisoning of her food.>
On June 21, 2023, Ms. Farghadani was transferred to a hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) due to her deteriorating condition. The life of Atena Farghadani is in danger, and according to her lawyer, her critical condition is a result of the assault and injuries in prison and the consequences of her dry hunger strike.
Atena Farghadani, a committed artist
Atena Farghadani, who was previously deprived of continuing her studies at the master's level due to her activities, was arrested and transferred to Evin Prison in Tehran after being summoned and reporting to the Evin courthouse. Atena Farghadani was arrested in September 2014 and sentenced to 12 years and nine months of imprisonment for <insulting the leader (Khamenei).> Ultimately, this sentence was reduced to 18 months of imprisonment in the Revision Court. Ms. Farghadani was sentenced to 12 years in prison for drawing and posting on social media cartoons that depicted members of the regime's parliament with animal heads.
She was charged with <conspiracy against national security,> <propaganda against the state,> and <insulting members of the parliament.> When she was temporarily released from prison in 2014, she exposed the harassment and abuses faced by prisoners, which quickly led to her return to prison. She went on a hunger strike. Another time, she suffered a heart attack. Atena Farghadani was finally released from prison on May 3, 2016.
In an open letter in June 2016, Atena Farghadani stressed that she would continue her artistic activities, <I would not mind going to jail and to solitary confinement.> She added in her letter, <As long as I live, I will stay in Iran and I would not mind going to jail and solitary confinement! .... For me the best and the most beautiful are summed up in the word of motherland.> >>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/06/21/life-of-atena-farghadani-at-risk/

Supporting cartoon

NCRI - Womens committee - in Women's news - June 22, 2023
<<Three journalists summoned to Tehran's Revolutionary Court for propaganda against the state
Three journalists have been summoned to the Revolutionary Court of Tehran. Saeedeh Shafiei, Mehrnoush Zarei Hanzaki, and Nasim Soltanbeigi were summoned to Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. These three journalists and media activists residing in Tehran were detained during the nationwide protests in 2022-2023. An informed source said that based on the issued indictment, the cases of these three journalists have been referred to Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, and accordingly, Saeedeh Shafiei, Mehrnoush Zarei, and Nasim Soltanbeigi will be tried in that branch on July 3, 2023.
The three journalists have been charged with <propaganda against the state> and <assembly and collusion.>

Saeedeh Shafiei, a writer and independent journalist, was arrested on January 22, 2023, by security forces at her home in Tehran. She was temporarily released on bail of 500 million tomans until the end of her trial on March 9, 2023. Mehrnoush Zarei Hanzaki, a journalist for various news agencies, including ILNA, ISNA, Chelcheragh, and ANA, was arrested by security forces in Tehran on February 12, 2023, and transferred to the IRGC Intelligence's detention center in Evin Prison, Ward 2A. She suffered from migraines during her detention and was deprived of access to her medication. She was finally released from Evin prison in mid-February 2023. Nasim Sultan Beigi, a former student activist and journalist, was arrested by IRGC intelligence officers at the airport on January 11, 2023, and was transferred to Evin prison. She was temporarily released on bail on February 3, 2023, until the end of her trial.
Imprisoned journalist Zahra Towhidi arraigned on her charges
Furthermore, on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, imprisoned journalist Zahra Towhidi was informed of her charges by the Evin Court. Zahra Towhidi is currently serving her previous sentence in the women's ward of Evin Prison. Zahra and Hoda Towhidi were arrested on September 22, 2022, during the initial days of the 2022-2023 nationwide protests and uprisings. After nearly three months of temporary detention, they were released on bail on December 17, 2022. Zahra and Hoda Towhidi were sentenced to one year of imprisonment by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court on charges of <assembly and collusion against the system> and <propaganda against the state.> >>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/06/22/three-journalists-summoned/  

Jinha - Womens news center - June 19, 2023
<<Cases of two journalists sent to Tehran Revolutionary Court
News Center- An indictment has been prepared in the cases of Iranian journalists Saeeda Shafiei and Nasim Sultan Beygi, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), an Iranian human rights activists' news agency. According to the indictment, the cases of two journalists have been sent to the 26th branch of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran. The journalists are expected to appear in court on July 12. <Propagandizing against the regime> is one of the accusations against the journalists. In January 2023, Saeeda Shafiei and Nasim Sultan Beygi were arrested on charges of <propagandizing against the regime> for supporting the protests. Then, they were released on bail. At the end of April, Saeeda Shafiei and Nasim Sultan Beygi received a notice sent by the Evin Prosecutor's Office. Three women were summoned to testify.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/cases-of-two-journalists-sent-to-tehran-revolutionary-court-33430?page=1

IFMAT - June 16, 2023
<<Iranian Whistle-Blower Journalist Says She Was Fired For Disclosing Harassment By Officer
An Iranian female journalist has reported that she has been fired following her disclosure that she was threatened and harassed by a Special Unit officer after being released from prison, where she was serving a two-year sentence for an interview she published with the father of Mahsa Amini, whose death while in police custody for a dress-code violation sparked months of nationwide protests. Nazila Marofian wrote on Twitter that she was <dismissed from the editorial office> following the publication of her account of the incident where she wrote that a Special Unit officer had harassed her, making comments such as <What's with the hair and look? Of course, because you’re a prostitute, you dress like this.> <After prison, two things happened to me. Continuous threats by my interrogator and being expelled and not allowed to work in editorial offices. All this because I am just a protesting critic,> Marofian wrote in a series of tweets on June 15. Marofian was granted temporary release in January. She added that such treatment is intended to drive people to <suicide> or to <flee> the country. Despite this, she emphasized, <As long as I'm alive, I will write and stay in my country.> Marofian was arrested by security forces on November 29, 2022, following the publication of her interview with Amjad Amini, the father of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini whose death in September 2022 sparked widespread protests across the country. In the interview, Amini revealed that the deputy of the Legal Medicine Organization - an official body of the Judiciary that provides expert witness reports for courts - told him explicitly that when writing about the cause of his daughter's death <I'll write whatever I want, whatever is in the interest of the country.> The LMO report subsequently tried to shift the blame for the tragedy to Amini's health. But supporters say witnesses saw her being beaten when taken into custody while her family says she had no history of any medical issues and was in good health at the time of her detention. In February 2023, Marofian was sentenced without a proper court hearing or defense by the Revolutionary Court for publishing the interview. The subject of harassment and assaults by police officers on women in Iran, which are regularly raised but rarely investigated, have been documented during the protests over Amini's death. In addition to the existence of videos showing such incidents, human rights activists and several political prisoners have testified about witnessing or experiencing attacks by police. Last November, CNN published an investigative report about the sexual assault and rape of some detainees from the protests while they were being held in prisons across Iran. Since Amini's death, Iranians have flooded onto the streets across the country to protest against a lack of rights, with women and schoolgirls making unprecedented shows of support in the biggest threat to the Islamic government since the 1979 revolution.>>
Read more here:
https://www.ifmat.org/06/16/iranian-whistle-blower-journalist-says-she-was-fired-for-disclosing-harassment-by-officer/

Iranwire - June 15, 2023
<<Journalist Fired for Interviewing Mahsa Amini's Father
Journalist Nazila Maroofian, who was detained after conducting an interview with Mahsa Amini's father, has been fired from her position amid intensified pressure on media workers. <I have been dismissed from my newsroom,> Maroofian, who has previously been vocal about harassment by security forces, said on Thursday. In a revealing tweet, Maroofian detailed her encounter with a special unit of the security services, quoting them as saying, <What's your situation? You dress like that because you're a whore.> Maroofian was among a number of Iranian journalists arrested while covering Mahsa Amini's death in September 2022. A court case was later initiated against her. Two other journalists, Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, also faced arrest for their coverage of the news and remain incarcerated, facing severe charges. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, a media freedom NGO, Iranian authorities have arrested at least 95 journalists since September 2022, when the death in morality police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini sparked nationwide protests. Known for its harsh internet censorship, which includes banning thousands of websites, the Islamic Republic has periodically suppressed or cut internet access for most Iranians to prevent them from accessing and disseminating information online and from safe online communications. Amini died on September 16, after being mistreated in custody and falling into a coma, triggering ongoing nationwide protests against the Islamic Republic. The security forces have cracked down hard on the demonstrations, killing more than 520 people and unlawfully detaining over 19,000, including dozens of journalists. Following biased trials, the judiciary has handed down stiff sentences, including the death penalty, to protesters.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/journalism-is-not-a-crime/117563-journalist-fired-for-interviewing-mahsa-aminis-father/

Iranwire - June 14, 2023
<<Atena Farghadani refused to accept bail - <I have not committed any crime>
Atena Farghadani refused to accept her bail bond and was transferred to the Shahr-e Rey Prison, better known as Qarchak. She said, <I have not committed any crime.> <My client, Atena Farghadani, has refrained from accepting bail and has been transferred to Shahr-e Rey Prison. My client says that her summons and arraignment are illegal and arbitrary, and she has not committed any crime,> wrote Mohammad Moghimi, Atena's lawyer, in a tweet on June 9. Atena Farghadani, a cartoonist and children's rights activist residing in Tehran was arrested on June 7, 2023, after being summoned to the investigative branch of the 33rd District Court. Atena's lawyer tweeted, <A bail order in the amount of 200 million tomans has been issued for my client. However, she has refrained from accepting the bail, arguing that she had not committed any crime and that her summons and arraignment were illegal and arbitrary. For this reason, she has been transferred to the Shahr-e Rey Prison.> Ms. Farghadani was arrested in September 2014 and sentenced to 12 years and 9 months in prison for <insulting the Supreme Leader.> Ultimately, this sentence was reduced to 18 months of imprisonment in the Appeals Court. In the summer of 2016, Atena Farghadani was released from prison with the efforts of the International Network for Cartoonists' Rights. After her release, she stated to The Washington Post that she would not leave Iran and intended to stay and continue her activities there because her work had the most impact in Iran.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/06/14/atena-farghadani-refused-bail/


Iranwire - June 9, 2023
<<Group Calls for Release of Jailed Iranian Cartoonist
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Iranian authorities to release a cartoonist arrested earlier this week on unknown charges and to stop their <unabated efforts to silence commentators and members of the press.> <Iranian authorities must release cartoonist Atena Farghadani immediately and unconditionally,> Sherif Mansour, CPJ's Middle East and North Africa program coordinator, said in a statement. <This cycling of journalists and commentators through prison is a continuation of authorities’ long-standing revolving door policy and a hallmark of Iran’s failure to respect the rule of law,> he added. Farghadani was arrested at Tehran's Evin Prison on June 7 after she responded to a summons to appear at the prison's courthouse, according to her lawyer Mohammad Moghim. Earlier that day, she published on her Instagram account a satirical political cartoon of people with animal and satanic faces. Farghadani wrote in the caption that she made the piece <in the privacy of my own home> and that it did not involve <the Islamic Republic and its agents.> It remains unclear why the cartoonist was summoned and arrested or whether she had been formally charged. In 2015, Farghadani was sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison for <assembly and collusion against national security> for a cartoon depicting parliament members as animals. Authorities released her in May 2016, before the end of her sentence. The same year, Cartoonist Rights Network International honored her with its Courage in Editorial Cartooning award. Since mid-April, Iran authorities have arrested at least four journalists, according to CPJ.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/117373-group-calls-for-release-of-jailed-iranian-cartoonist/
Read also <Imprisoned cartoonist subjeced to forced virginity test:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2015/10/14/iran-imprisoned-cartoonist-subjected-to-forced-virginity-test/

Ed Hall's cartoon in support of Atena skewers Iran’s Parliament
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund - USA
https://cbldf.org/2015/06/cartoonists-draw4atena/
and view more cartoons by Atta Farghadani here::
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1AVSF_enBE745BE745&sxsrf=APwXEdeihIUBst77joRqeAk85EI6yQZfdA:1686340420626&ei=RIODZMbtJd-Bi-gPw56xsAs&q=iranian+cartoonist+Atena+Farghadani&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGn_fN-7b_AhXfwAIHHUNPDLYQ7Al6BAgLEAw&biw=1263&bih=715 

Iranwire - June 5, 2023
<<Languishing in Prison for Being the Brother of a Journalist
It has been 34 days since the arrest of Sajjad Shahrabi, a radio announcer and dubber who is also the brother of Shima Shahrabi, the editor-in-chief of IranWire's Persian-language website. Held in solitary confinement and interrogated for days, Shahrabi was transferred to the general ward of Tehran's Evin prison on May 24. Officials announced a bail of 10 billion rials ($20,000) while preventing his release. On May 3, agents from the Intelligence Ministry raided Shahrabi's parents' home and seized his laptop, mobile phone and banking cards, as well as US dollars that his father needs because of his jewelry and goldsmith business. On the same day, Shahrabi was taken to the Security Prosecutor's Office, where he was charged with gathering and colluding against the regime and with cooperating with <hostile> media. Held in solitary confinement, Shahrabi endured harsh physical and psychological pressure during his 12-day interrogation, which focused on his sister's activities, their relationship and the activities of IranWire. The interrogators threatened to arrest family members as a means of coercion. Shahrabi ended a hunger strike on the 13th day when he was transferred from solitary confinement to Ward 209 of Evin prison. Meanwhile, Shahrabi's father was summoned to an office of the Ministry of Intelligence and questioned regarding his daughter's journalistic activities and the relationship between his children. His cell phone was also confiscated.
None of the family's seized items have been returned.
On the first day of Shahrabi's arrest, he protested his temporary detention. In response to repeated inquiries from the family, the prosecutor in charge of the case said the legal process would be prolonged as the Revolutionary Court would need time to consider Shahrabi's objection.
And on May 20, the investigator informed him he would not be released on bail unless he withdrew his objection.
Four days after withdrawing his objection, Shahrabi was transferred to the general ward of Evin prison, where Judge Mahmoud Haji Moradi, head of the prosecution branch at Evin Prosecutor's Office, informed him that bail had been set at 10 billion rials. However, bail has since been impeded.
After several days, Judge Moradi announced he had referred the case to the Revolutionary Court, but it remains unclear which specific branch is handling it.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/journalism-is-not-a-crime/117221-languishing-in-prison-for-being-the-brother-of-a-journalist/
 
NCRI - Women committee - in Women's news - June 1, 2023
<<Hoda and Zahra Towhidi summoned by phone and subsequently arrested
Two journalists, Hoda and Zahra Towhidi, were arrested following a phone summons and transferred to Evin Prison to serve their sentences. Zahra and Hoda Towhidi went to the Implementation of the Verdicts' Branch 1 of the Prosecutor's Office following a phone summons on May 31, 2023. They were subsequently arrested and transferred to Evin Prison to serve their sentences. The phone summons of Hoda and Zahra Towhidi took place without any official notification of the implementation of the verdict registered in the judicial system or communicated to their lawyers. The two journalists were arrested during the initial days of the nationwide protests in 2022. After nearly three months of temporary detention, they were released on bail on December 17, 2022. Zahra and Hoda Towhidi were sentenced to one year of imprisonment by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court on charges of <assembly and collusion> and <propaganda against the state.> Iranian journalists face systematic harassment, including incidents such as physical assault and forcefully grabbing the microphone from the hands of journalists. For example, a security officer from the Ministry of Health broke the fingers of Faezeh Momeni, a city reporter.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/06/01/hoda-and-zahra-towhidi/

Jinha - Womens news agency - June 1, 2023
<<Iran: At least 107 people detained in May
News Center- The <Jin, Jiyan, Azadi> uprising that sparked in Iran and Rojhilat Kurdistan following the killing of Jina Mahsa Amini continues. Since the first day of the uprising, thousands of people have been detained or arrested and hundreds of people have been killed by security forces. In May, Iranian forces detained or forcibly disappeared at least 107 individuals, including 21 women, according to the report released by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. At least 54 Kurdish activists, 21 women activists, six reporters, six teachers and one college student are among the detained people, the report said.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/iran-at-least-107-people-detained-in-may-33375?page=1

Iranwire - June 1, 2023
<<ILNA Reporter Insulted, Beaten for Approaching Hassan Khomeini
The security team of Hassan Khomeini, a grandson of the Islamic Republic's founding father, assaulted an ILNA reporter while he was trying to take a picture of the cleric, the semi-official news agency says. The incident happened on May 31 in the Tehran headquarters of the Ettelaat Institute, which publishes a newspaper of the same name, during an event marking the first anniversary of the death of the institute's director Mahmoud Doa'ei.
According to ILNA's report, the journalist approached Khomeini and former President Mohammad Khatami to take a photo of the men, when two bodyguards forcibly removed him from the event. <Initially, they confiscated his mobile phone, subjecting him to continuous physical and verbal abuse,> the report said. <Simultaneously, another individual in the hall persistently targeted the journalist with insults, punches and kicks, while the head of the security team focused on scrutinizing the reporter's mobile phone and private messages.> The bodyguards and intelligence officials confiscated the journalist's ID card and mobile phone, and held him for one hour. ILNA condemned the bodyguards’ <inappropriate action,> calling it a flagrant attack on freedom of the media. Khomeini's office did not immediately comment.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/117091-ilna-reporter-insulted-beaten-after-approaching-hassan-khomeini/

copyright Womens' Liberation Front 2019/cryfreedom.net 2023