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
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NCRI - in Women's news - August 16,2023
<<Activist Arrests and Unjust Sentences Underline Ongoing Persecutions in Iran
The clerical regime continues to arrest and detain activists and hand down prison sentences for them.
As dissenting voices persist in Iran, the clerical regime's oppressive tactics continue to target activists, stifling their advocacy for change. Recent developments shed light on the ongoing crackdown on individuals striving for human rights, freedom of expression, and gender equality. Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced Tahereh Naghiee, the Secretary General of the Iranian Teachers’ Organization, to six months in prison, payment of fines, a ban on leaving the country, and other social deprivations, according to reports published on August 15, 2023. Her six-month time in prison is suspended for five years. Ms. Naghiee is charged with <propaganda against the state.> Her trial had been held on June 11, 2023.
Tahereh Naghiee is an activist teacher, who formerly taught in high schools of Tehran's 5th district.
Activist Arrests and Unjust Sentences.
Kurdish journalist, Nazila Maroofian, was violently arrested on Monday, August 14, and transferred to Qarchak Prison, where she went on a dry hunger strike. She had referred to the Police Station to receive her cell phone when one of the officers punched her in the back of her head. Her mother who was accompanying her, objected to police action, but he said, <We want to kill her just like we killed Mahsa Amini.> She had been temporarily released on a bail of 300 million Tomans from Evin Prison just the day before, Sunday, August 13. On Saturday, August 5, 2023, Nazila Maroufian was transferred from Evin Prison to Taleghani Hospital in Tehran due to <nervous and psychological stress and rapid heartbeat.> After a few hours of hospitalization, she was returned to Evin Prison. Nazila Maroofian was released on Wednesday, August 16, from Qarchak Prison. Nine women's rights activists were arrested in Rasht, Bandar Anzali, Lahijan, and Fouman, in the northern Gilan Province. Those arrested are Zahra Dadras, Zohreh Dadras, Negin Rezaii, Matin Yazdani, Forough Saminia, Jelveh Javaheri, Vahedeh Khosh-sirat, Shiva Shah-Siah, and Yasamin Hashdari. They have been transferred to an undisclosed location. Two students of architectural engineering, two sisters, Zarian and Zilan Malaii were arrested at their home in Sanandaj by security forces, on Sunday, August 13. In the meantime, Donya Hosseini called her family on Tuesday, August 15, and informed them that she had been transferred to the Evin Prison. Ms. Hosseini was arrested by Tehran's security forces on Saturday, August 12, 2023. Donya Hosseini, 35, resides in Tehran. She was arrested in November 2022 for taking part in the protests but was released after some time. She is accused of <propaganda against the state and in favor of opposition groups and organizations.>
Activist Arrests and Unjust Sentences
Bahar Ahmadi was arrested in Sanandaj on Saturday, August 12. Security forces raided her residence and arrested her without providing a legal warrant. Ms. Ahmadi is detained by the Department of Intelligence of Sanandaj and deprived of access to her medications. Her husband, As'ad Mohammadi, was arrested three weeks ago on July 24, 2023, and there is no accurate information available on his fate. He is deprived of access to a lawyer and of visiting his family. Branch 107 of the Criminal Court 2 of Khorramabad sentenced a wrestling coach and referee to one year in prison. Massoumeh Soleimani, 36, was arrested in Khorramabad on May 10, 2023, on the charge of <inciting violence in cyberspace.> She was released on bail on May 14 from the detention center of the Intelligence Department. Massoumeh Soleimani is a coach and a referee for women's wrestling who had been previously arrested. Yalda Dehghani has been in detention at Lakan Prison of Rasht, for more than one month, without standing trial. Prison authorities refuse to release her on bail and have extended her detention. Ms. Dehghani was arrested by security forces at her home in Bandar Anzali in early July. There is no information available on the charges against her and the reasons for her arrest. Hanieh Daemi, the sister of former political prisoner Atena Daemi, has also been summoned through a phone call on August 14 to the Intelligence Police. It is not clear why she has been summoned. Hanieh Daemi had been arrested temporarily during the protests last year. These cases exemplify the harrowing challenges that activists in Iran endure as they navigate a landscape of suppression and resistance. They paint a somber picture of a nation grappling with dissent and a regime determined to quash it.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/08/16/activist-arrests-unjust-sentences/



Jinha - Womens news agency - August 16,2023
<<Children's rights activists demand immediate release of Zohreh Sayadi
News Center- Children's rights activist Zohreh Sayadi, who has been held in Evin prison, has not been released from prison despite her serious health problems. Children's rights activists in Iran have released an open letter signed by about 50 activists demanding the immediate and unconditional release of Zohreh Sayadi. <Children's rights activist Zohreh Sayadi has been held in prison for more than two months. She has been suffering from cancer; however, she has been only allowed to leave the prison for chemotherapy treatments,> the letter said.
'We demand the unconditional release of Zohreh Sayadi'
Underlining that Zohreh Sayadi cannot spend even a more day in prison due to her illness, the letter said, <We are a group of children's rights activists who have witnessed how Zohreh Sayadi made efforts to ensure children's rights, particularly children without birth certificates and forgotten children of Sistan and Baluchestan. We demand the immediate and unconditional release of our comrade Zohreh Sayadi.> In December 2018, Zohreh Sayadi was arrested in a raid on her home in the Andisheh of Tehran by the Iranian government forces and transferred to Evin prison. Then, she was temporarily released from prison on bail. She was sentenced to one year in prison by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran in 2019 on the charge of <propaganda activity against the system>. In May 2023, her sentence was upheld by the Court of Appeal of Tehran. She was rearrested and transferred to Evin prison.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency1.com/en/actual/children-s-rights-activists-demand-immediate-release-of-zohreh-sayadi-33703

Iranwire - August 16, 2023
<<Iran’s Sunni Clerics Targeted For <Heightened Persecution>
Religious leaders of Iran's Sunni Muslim communities are being increasingly targeted for <persecution, arrest and imprisonment> for the only reason of criticizing the state's violence against peaceful protesters, according to a New York-based human rights group. <While religious and ethnic minorities in the Islamic Republic have long been oppressed, the state's targeting of Sunni clerics intensified after anti-government protests swept across Iran in the wake of the September 2022 death in state custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini,> the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a statement on August 15. Iran's Shia leadership responded to the monthslong protests with brutal force. At least 520 people were killed across the country and 20,000 others were unlawfully detained, activists say. Following biased trials, the judiciary has handed down stiff sentences, including the death penalty, to protesters. Iranians from all ethnic and religious backgrounds were targeted, but the CHRI said that Baluch and Kurds <bore the brunt> of the state's bloody crackdown, with the highest number of casualties taking place in southeastern Sistan and Baluchistan province and the Kurdish areas of the country. Sistan and Baluchistan is home to Iran's Sunni Baluch minority, while Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in western Iran and are predominantly Sunni. Molavi Abdulhamid, the Sunni Friday prayer leader of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan and Baluchistan, has been a key dissenting voice inside Iran since the eruption of the widespread protests, using his sermons to call for fundamental economic, social and political changes in the country. In retribution, the authorities have canceled his planned pilgrimage to Mecca, and security forces have arrested at least seven of his close associates, including his grandson. Those seven are still detained, even though charges have yet to be announced. Many other Sunni clerics in Sistan and Baluchistan and the Kurdish areas have been targeted for speaking out strongly against the state's crackdown on peaceful protesters and the use of the death penalty against ethnic minorities such as Baluch and Kurds. <These religious leaders have become targets for heightened persecution by a government that sees any peaceful dissent as a potentially existential challenge to be crushed-especially when the criticism comes from highly respected figures in their respective communities,> the CHRI said. According to CHRI Executive Director Hadi Ghaemi said, Sunni clerics in Iran <have committed no illegal act other than speaking openly about the state's violent repression of the people in their communities-and that is a crime in the Islamic Republic.> >>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/religious-minorities/119554-irans-sunni-clerics-targeted-for-heightened-persecution/
Note by Gino d'Artali: Read also this very related article by the Center for Human Rights Iran titled:
<Special Report: Sunni Clerics in the Crosshairs of Islamic Republic Repression>...
and published on the same day at
https://iranhumanrights.org/2023/08/special-report-sunni-clerics-in-the-crosshairs-of-islamic-republic-repression/
A must read really.

Iranwire - August 16, 2023
<<Price Hike Rumors Trigger Long Queues at Iran's Petrol Stations
Long lines of cars have formed at gas stations across Tehran and various other Iranian cities amid concerns over a possible gasoline price hike.
Images shared on social media depicted lengthy queues extending for several blocks in the capital. Media reports attributed the long queues to <rumors of petrol price hike.> These rumors began to spread on August 12, when Ali Akbar Nejad Ali, the CEO of Iran's National Oil Products Distribution Company, announced the implementation of a <quota plan> at petrol stations. Nejad Ali said in a TV interview that the plan aimed to <avert the closure of petrol stations.> There have been recent reports about the closure of a considerable number of petrol stations in cities including Tehran and Karaj in recent days, sparking concerns about shortages. However, the CEO of Iran's National Oil Products Distribution Company has insisted that <there is no scarcity of gasoline...and the supply at fuel stations remains adequate.> And according to Oil Minister Javad Oji, the government has no intention of increasing gasoline prices. In November 2019, thousands of Iranians took to the streets of more than 100 cities and towns to protest a government's decision to raise gas prices. The protests quickly turned political, with many demonstrators chanting against the Islamic Republic and its leaders. The authorities responded to the protests with brutal force, killing at least 300 people and detaining up to 7,000, according to rights groups.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/119545-price-hike-rumors-trigger-long-queues-at-irans-petrol-stations/

Iranwire - August 16, 2023
<<Iranian Art Director Arrested; Whereabouts Unknown
Iranian security forces have arrested art director Moein Hosseinpour in the northern city of Behshahr on August 15, IranWire reports, amid an escalating state clampdown on critical voices in the country. The agents presented themselves as officials from the Electricity Department in order to gain entry to Hosseinpour's residence. They did not present a warrant during the arrest. Hosseinpour's family has been unable to obtain information about his whereabouts or the reason for his detention. The Intelligence Department said that no arrest order has been issued against Hosseinpour.
He has produced a video about Sahar Khodayari, a football fan who died in Tehran in 2019 after setting herself on fire over fears that she would be jailed for trying to enter a football stadium disguised as a man. Women in Iran are banned from attending sports events in stadiums.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/119544-iranian-art-director-arrested-whereabouts-unknown/

Iranwire - August 16, 2023
<<Seven Women's Rights Activists Arrested in Iran's Gilan Province
Security agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran have reportedly arrested seven women's rights activists across the northern province of Gilan, amid an intensifying crackdown on dissent in the country. The activists were arrested on August 16 at their homes in the cities of Rasht, Foman and Anzali, according to Radio Farda. They include Mateen Yazdani, Forough Saminia, Yasamin Hashdari, Jelveh Javaheri, Zahra Dadras, Zohreh Dadras and Negin Rezaei. There is no information available about their whereabouts. The Iranian government has a long history of silencing and imprisoning women who speak out for their rights. Anger over the suppression of human rights in Iran has boiled over since the September 2022 death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested for allegedly wearing a hijab improperly. The nationwide protest movement appears to have waned in recent months following a bloody crackdown by security forces, but resistance to forced hijab rules remains strong, with images of unveiled women in public spaces being widely shared on social media.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/119552-seven-womens-rights-activists-arrested-in-irans-gilan-province/
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: If the Islamic Republic thinks it will be able to raise a victory flag soon they'll awaken after the commemoration of the killing of Jina Mahsa Amini!!

Iranwire - August 16, 2023
<<Iranian Directors Denounce <Peculiar> Sentencing of Saeed Roostaei
The Association of Iranian Cinema Directors has condemned the prison sentence handed down to Saeed Roostaei as <the most peculiar judicial decision in the history of Iranian cinema.> The filmmaker was sentenced to six months in prison on August 14 for making the film <Leila's Brothers> and showcasing it at the Cannes Film Festival, in what the association called <a futile effort to humiliate this talented and insightful filmmaker.>
Roostaei was also prohibited from having contacts with the film industry for five years and ordered to complete a course at the state Radio and Television University in Qom. The sentencing came at a time when the Iranian authorities are subjecting independent filmmakers to extensive pressure. Several film directors have been arrested or detained for their work in recent months, and films have been banned from screening. The Association of Iranian Cinema Directors urged cinema managers in the country to stand in solidarity with Roostaei during this <critical time.> They also appealed to the national cinema authorities to intervene against the execution of his sentence and <prevent further perpetuation of this atmosphere of despondency and hopelessness in Iranian cinema.> >>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/119549-iranian-directors-denounce-peculiar-sentencing-of-saeed-roostaei/

Iranwire - August 16, 2023
<< <Relentless Oppression:> 90-Year-Old Baha'i Arrested, 180 More Targeted
Iranian authorities have arrested Jamaloddin Khanjani, a 90-year-old Baha'i in failing health who already served 10 years in prison for his religious beliefs, in what the Baha'i International Community (BIC) calls a <new wave of repression> targeting the religious minority in the country. In an August 16 statement, the BIC's United Nations office in Geneva says there have been,< over 180 incidents of persecution against the community in recent weeks.> Khanjani was arrested on August 13 with his daughter Maria Khanjani, the statement says, noting that he was already imprisoned between 2008 and 2018 because of his membership of an informal leadership group for the Baha'is in Iran, known as the <Yaran.> The group was formed with knowledge of the authorities as a result of the government's banning of formal Baha'i institutions in Iran. The Yaran was disbanded in 2008, and all its seven members were imprisoned until 2018, when they were released after serving their 10-year sentences. Khanjani's latest arrest comes days after the 10-year prison terms of two other former Yaran members, Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, were upheld earlier this week on appeal. The BIC says that the 70-year-old Sabet <suffers from significant health issues and has been transferred to the hospital from prison numerous times in the past year.> A fourth member of the Yaran, Afif Naimi, who was arrested a year ago, has recently received a seven-year jail term. He is also said to be suffering health issues. <The cruelty meted out to the Baha'is in Iran has no limits. Arresting a 90-year-old and others with health issues who already spent 10 years in prison for their faith shows the government's desperate attempt to continue its fruitless efforts to destroy the Baha'i community in Iran,> says Simin Fahandej, the BIC's representative to the UN in Geneva. <No human being, bound by even the slightest principles of fairness, would regard it as anything other than a gross and outrageous miscarriage of justice to imprison, without a shred of evidence, proof or charge, a 90-year-old man who has already suffered profound persecution for his faith,> she added. Nine other Baha'is accused of disrupting pharmaceutical supplies were also arrested on August 13, the BIC statement says. They are the owners and employees of pharmacy businesses which were sealed and shut down by the authorities. <In the face of growing solidarity between the Baha'is and the general population the government is trying to drive a wedge by calling these legitimate Baha'i-owned trading businesses ‘hoarders,'> according to the BIC. The new arrests have taken the number of Baha'is arrested or imprisoned in recent weeks to nearly 60, while more than 26 Baha'is received prison sentences, it says.
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<The Iranian government has seen the unprecedented worldwide support for the Baha'i community after the Our Story Is One campaign and the Baha'i community's efforts to call for unity among all groups and it is now manifesting its desperation to eradicate the community - by targeting and increasing its persecution on the elderly and the sick.> Fahandej says. <If Iran can learn one thing from its past cruelty of over 40 years, it is that its continued persecution of the Baha'is has proved to be counterproductive, raising awareness of the situation of the Baha'is globally, creating stronger solidarity between the Baha'i community and the wider population in Iran and proving to the international community the innocence of the Baha'is in the face of relentless oppression.> >>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/bahais-of-iran/119543-relentless-oppression-90-year-old-bahai-arrested-180-more-targeted/

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