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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*I demand a Pen, Paper, Book NOW*
NCRI - Womens committee -2 Jan 2024 - in Women's News
<<Plight of 1 million children deprived of education in Iran
The National Statistics Center of Iran today published its statistics on the number students who are either deprived of education or have dropped out of school. In the 2022-2023 academic year, 929,798 students in three educational stages have been deprived of education. In the elementary level, 175,114 students did not go to school, including 96,202 boys and 78,912 girls. In the junior high school level, 98,271 boys and 99,723 girls did not go to school, which makes a total of 197,690. The number of students who did not make it to senior high school level is 556,994, including 295,101 boys and 261,893 girls. Despite the lack of transparency and accuracy in government statistics, they nevertheless shed light on the dire circumstances faced by children, especially young Iranian girls. In 2018, the adviser to the Ministry of Education and the director-general of women and family affairs disclosed that 19% of the country’s girls were out of school, underlining the pressing issues that continue to affect them.

In 2019, Massoumeh Ebtekar, Head of the Women and Family Affairs Directorate in 2019, estimated that the number of girls missing out on education was three times higher than that of boys. (The state-run ana.press, September 17, 2019). All available data supports the fact that girls are more likely to drop out of school and remain out of school compared to boys. This trend becomes particularly pronounced at the secondary level, mainly due to forced marriages. One of the unfortunate consequences of student drop outs and the growing poverty among the Iranian people is the increasing number of young Iranian girls and children forced into child labor.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2024/01/02/deprived-of-education-in-iran/


Malala Yousafhai
Noteworthy by Gino d'Artali: This article immidiately brought back to memory the brave Malala Yousafhai (Pakistan, 1997) who risked her life for as was her motto, and still is, "One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world." Read more about her here:
www.cryfreedom.net/malala.htm  and
www.cryfreedom.net/malala2.htm


Narges Mansouri
Jinha - Womens News Agency 1 Jan 2024
<<Narges Mansouri, Iranian labor rights activist and political prisoner held in Evin prison, has been banned from family visits. News Center- Iranian political prisoner Narges Mansouri has been banned from family visits by the authorities of Evin prison, announced her lawyer, Mohammad Moghimi, announced on his X (former Twitter) accounti <The authorities of Evin prison did not allow the family of Narges Mansouri to visit and they were told that they would not be allowed to visit her until the first of February. The main reason for the ban is her deteriorating health condition because she has been on a hunger strike since December 25, 2023,> wrote her lawyer. Narges Mansouri , a member of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company Workers' Union and one of 14 activists who signed the <Statement of 14,> calling for the resignation of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, was arrested amid a wave of arrests of labor and political activists in Iran in May 2022. On December 25, 2023, she started a hunger strike in Evin prison to protest the pressures imposed on her family.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/iranian-political-prisoner-narges-mansouri-banned-from-family-visits-34386?page=1


Toomaj Salehi
Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 1 Jan 2024
<<Toomaj Salehi, the protesting rapper, Faces Imprisonment and Additional Penalties
Toomaj Salehi, the protesting rapper who was re-arrested -by security forces in December of this year, has been sentenced to one year in prison along with supplementary penalties by the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to a report obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the Isfahan Revolutionary Court recently handed down a verdict, condemning Toomaj Salehi to one year of imprisonment, a two-year revocation of his passport, and mandatory participation in a <behavior management> class. Amir Raisian Firouzabad, Toomaj Salehi's lawyer, detailed the sentence: <Toomaj Salehi, who had voiced complaints against the officers handling his case through a video message, received a one-year prison sentence from the judge of the Isfahan Revolutionary Court branch, along with a two-year revocation of his passport and mandatory enrollment in a behavior management.> Furthermore, the second part of Tumaj Salehi's case, involving the charge of <spreading falsehoods in cyberspace,> has been referred to Isfahan Criminal Court Branch 2. On November 30, 2023, Tumaj Salehi was forcefully re-apprehended by armed security forces in the city of Babol, subsequently being transported to Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan. Toomaj Salehi, having served one year and 21 days of imprisonment, with 252 days in solitary confinement, was temporarily released from Isfahan Central Prison on Saturday, November 18, 2023, after posting bail pending the completion of court proceedings. This rapper was coerced into confessing under torture on November 2, 2023, as evidenced by a video published by government media, revealing bruises and severe beatings on the face and body of the 33-year-old man. The first court session for this protesting rapper occurred on June 18, 2023, following eight months of detention. On July 2, 2023, his second hearing took place in Branch 1 of the Isfahan Revolutionary Court. In July 2023, Toomaj Salehi received a sentence of 6 years and 3 months in prison for the charge of <corruption on earth> and was acquitted of charges such as <insulting Khomeini,> <insulting Khamenei,> and <connection with a hostile state.> As an additional penalty, he was banned from leaving the country. The rapper was arrested on Sunday, October 30, 2023, amid the protests of the revolutionary movement <Jin, Jiyan, Azadi> in Gerd Bisheh village, Gandoman District, Borujen County, Chaharmahal, and Bakhtiari Province, and he remains in detention.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2024/01/tumaj-salehi-the-protesting-rapper-faces-imprisonment-and-additional-penalties


Reza Rasaei
Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 1 Jan 2024
<<Hengaw Issues Warning on Potential Execution of Reza Rasaei
The case of Kurdish political prisoner Reza Rasaei, a Yarsan adherent who was detained during the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi movement has been forwarded to the execution of sentences department of the Kermanshah Criminal Court, raising the imminent risk of his death sentence being carried out.
According to a report obtained by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Sunday, December 31, 2023, Mohammad Rasul Haqnajati, the head of the second branch of the Kermanshah Criminal Court and the judge who issued the death sentence, sent Reza Rasaei's case to the Sentence Execution Department. This action follows the approval of his death sentence by Branch 17 of the Supreme Court just two weeks ago, after over 13 months of imprisonment. Expressing deep concern, Hengaw calls upon the international community, human rights institutions, and political and civil activists to advocate for Reza Rasaei, urging immediate action to halt the execution of this perceived inhumane sentence. Hengaw had previously undertaken a legal analysis of Reza Rasaei's verdict, highlighting that the judgment, upon scrutiny, contradicts the prevailing laws and principles of jurisprudence. The verdict exhibits formal flaws that significantly undermine its credibility, failing to resonate with public opinion. Such deficiencies contribute to heightened tensions and disputes, fostering a pervasive sense of insecurity and injustice within society. In line with the arguments presented, Hengaw Organization for Human Rights evaluates the document against established legal and jurisprudential standards, deeming it a customary and non-judicial ruling. Reza Rasaei, a 34-year-old protester from Kermanshah, had his death sentence recently confirmed by Branch 17 of the Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran. His family has verified this information with Hengaw. The initial death sentence, issued by the second branch of the criminal court of Kermanshah province, accused Reza Rasaei of murdering Nader Beyrami, the intelligence chief of the IRGC, in the city of Sahaneh. The killing occurred on November 18, 2022, during the suppression of a rally in Sahaneh commemorating Seyed Khalil Alinzhad.
Notably, the allegations against Reza Rasaei, based on coerced confessions from him and other detainees after months of torture and case fabrication, lack legal substantiation to date. Reza Rasaei was apprehended on Thursday, November 24, 2022, in the city of Karaj by government forces and subsequently transferred to Dieselabad Prison in Kermanshah after interrogation at the IRGC Intelligence detention center.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2024/01/hengaw-issues-warning-on-potential-execution-of-reza-rasaei


Four Bahai Women Sentenced to 15 Years in Jail
NCRI - Womens committee - 31 Dec 2023 - in Women's News
<<Unjust Verdicts: Four Bahai Women Sentenced to 15 Years in Jail
On the New Year's Eve, four Bahai women have been sentenced to a total of 15 years in jail. Nassim Sabet, Azita Foroughi, Roya Ghanee Azabadi, and Soheila Ahmadi. The 35th Branch of the Revision Court of Khorasan handed its verdict today, Sunday, December 31, 2023, sentencing each of the four Bahai women to three years and eight months in jail. The four Bahai women are charged with membership in an association seeking to disrupt national security. The Revision Court convened without informing the Bahai women or their lawyers.


Labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi

The Plight of Labor Activists Sharifeh Mohammadi and Narges Mansouri
Labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi has been transferred from Lakan Prison in Rasht (northern Iran) to the Prison of Sanandaj (western Iran). In a call to her relatives on Saturday, December 30, 2023, Ms. Mohammadi told them that she was being transferred to Sanandaj, and that her temporary release on bail is not yet possible. Sharifeh Mohammadi was arrested at home on December 5, 2023, by agents of the Department of Intelligence. It is still not clear why she has been arrested and what her charges are.


Narges Mansouri
Another labor activist, Narges Mansouri, has started a hunger strike since December 25, 2023. In protest of pressures imposed on her family, she has refrained from taking food and medicine. She had a sit-in outside the sentry's office in the women’s ward of Evin on Saturday, December 30.
Narges Mansouri, 46, and the mother of a 12-year-old, is a member of the Syndicate of the workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company. Branch 26 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court sentenced her to five years in prison on the charge of <assembly and collusion against national security> and to one year in prison on the charge of <propaganda against the state> in November 2019. Ms. Mansouri was initially arrested in mid-April 2022 to serve her time in prison but was released on a 3-billion-Toman bail in May. Finally, she was arrested on December 1, 2023, in Khoy and transferred to Evin Prison.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/12/31/four-bahai-women/


Five Kurdish prisoners
Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 31 Dec 2024
<<Oshnavieh; Five Kurdish citizens arrested and taken to prison to serve their prison sentences
Bahman Mahmoudi-Azer, Yaqub Mahmoudi-Azer, Yusuf Rahmani, Pirot Tabnak, and Mohsen Azizi, Kurdish citizens from Oshnavieh, were arrested and transferred to the central prison of this city to serve their prison sentence. According to the report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Saturday, December 30, 2023, Bahman Mahmoudi-Azer and Yaqub Mahmoudi-Azer, each to serve their 7-year prison sentence, Mohsen Azizi and Pirot Tabnak, each to serve their two-year prison sentence and Youssef Rahmani, to serve two years and five months in prison, were arrested after being summoned to the execution branch of the Oshnavieh’s court, and then transferred to the prison of this city. In December 2023, Bahman Mahmoudi-Azer, from Oshnavieh, and Yaqub Mahmoodi-Azer, from the village of <Singan> in this city, were each sentenced to seven years of imprisonment by the Iranian IslamicRevolutionary Court of this city, presided over by Judge Mehdi Rezaei. Also, Pirot Tabnak, from the village of Singan, and Mohsen Azizi, from Oshanvieh, were each sentenced to two years in prison, and Yusuf Rahmani, from the village of <Khorsht>, was sentenced to two years and five months in prison. Hengaw wrote earlier, quoting informed sources that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court in Oshnavieh has sentenced these citizens to prison for charges including <membership in the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran> and <collaboration with the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran>. On the morning of Wednesday, July 13, 2023, Yousef Rahmani and Mohsen Azizi were arrested in their homes by the Iranian security forces. Yousuf Rahmani was temporarily released on bail on August 17, 2022, and Mohsen Azizi was later released on the same terms on Sunday, July 24, 2023. Yaqub Mahmoudi-Azer and Bahman Mahmoudi-Azer were both arrested by the Iranian security forces on June 27, 2023 and were temporarily released from Oshnavieh prison on August 18 and 4, 2023, respectively, by posting bail until the end of the proceedings.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2023/12/oshnavieh-five-kurdish-citizens-arrested-and-taken-to-prison-to-serve-their-prison-sentences

HRANA - December 29, 2023
<<Vahda Seilani Arrested
HRANA - Vahda Seilani, a Baha’i resident of Kerman, was arrested at her home by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence on Sunday, December 29, and taken to an unknown location. Officers searched Ms. Seilani's home during her detention and seized some of her personal belongings. According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists in Iran, security agents arrested a Baha’i resident of Kerman, Vahda Seilani, on Sunday morning, December 29; she was subsequently taken to an unknown location. No information is available on the reason for his arrest or the charges, nor of the whereabouts of this Baha'i citizen. Baha'i citizens in Iran are denied freedom of religious beliefs, a systematic exclusion, although under Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, everyone has the right to freedom of religion and religious conversion based on conviction, and the freedom to express it individually or collectively and in public or in private.
According to unofficial sources in Iran, there are more than three hundred thousand Baha’is there, but the Iranian Constitution recognizes only the religions of Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism; it does not recognize the Baha'i Faith - therefore, for many years Baha'i rights have been systematically violated.>>
Source:
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/archive/hrana-vahda-seilani-was-arrested-kerman


Saywan Ebrahimi
Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 30 Dec 2023
<<Sanandaj; Kurdish language teacher, Saywan Ebrahimi arrested and taken to prison to serve his prison sentence
Saywan Ebrahimi, a Kurdish language teacher and a member of the board of directors of the <Nujin> socio-cultural association, was arrested and transferred to Sanandaj Central Prison to serve a one-year prison sentence. Previously, he was sentenced to 11 and 1 year in prison in two separate cases, respectively. According to the report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Saturday, December 30, 1402, Kurdish language teacher Saywan Ebrahimi was arrested after being summoned by the Sanandaj court to serve his one-year prison sentence. His 11-year prison sentence is pending in another case in the appeals court, and if the mentioned sentence gets approved, 10 years of it will also be applicable.
In November 2023, Saywan Ebrahimi was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the first branch of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, headed by Judge Kerami on the charge of <forming groups and factions to disrupt security> and one year for the charge of <propaganda against the government> which makes a total of eleven years of penal servitude. In another case, Saywan Ebrahimi was sentenced to one year of imprisonment, exile, and 40 lashes by Branch 106 of the Sanandaj Criminal Court on charges of <disturbing public order>. On December 2, 2023, his sentence of imprisonment and flogging was confirmed in the appeals court and the sentence of his deportation to Dizilabad prison in Kermanshah was canceled.
Saywab Ebrahimi, earlier on his page, stated the reasons for issuing these sentences as <responsibility in the Nujin Association and its activities>, <supporting the resistance of his wife, Zara Mohammadi>, <publishing martyrs' photos on social networks> and also, <connection with a TV channel named KurdTV>. He also stated that he was unaware of the existence of a channel with this name. This board member of Nujin Cultural and Social Association was arrested by the Iranian security forces on Wednesday, January 18, 2023, Finally, he was temporarily released from Sanandaj prison on Monday, February 13, 2023, by posting bail until the end of the proceedings. Earlier, Saywan Ebrahimi was arrested by the security forces on January 3, 2023, while he was referring to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj to pursue the case of his wife, Zara Mohammadi which he was released on bail on January 5, 2023.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2023/12/sanandaj-kurdish-language-teacher-saywan-ebrahimi-arrested-and-taken-to-prison-to-serve-his-prison-sentence


NCRI - Womens committee - 29 Dec 2023 - in Women's News
<<Raisi sets new record: Four women executed in Iran over three days
The clerical regime is continuing with its spree of executions. At least four women have been executed in Iran over a span of three days. Eight prisoners, including three women, were executed in the Prison of Birjand, in South Khorasan Province (eastern Iran), at dawn on Wednesday, December 27, 2023. Another four prisoners, including one woman, were hanged in the Central Prison of Urmia, in the northwestern province of West Azerbaijan, on Friday morning, December 29, 2023.
Twenty-five women executed in 2023, so far
These executions bring the number of women executed in Iran to 25 in the year 2023.
The clerical regime has executed more than 200 prisoners over the past two months. Since January 2023, it has executed some 850 prisoners, including 15 political prisoners, a 43 percent rise compared to the last year. The Iranian regime open-handedly uses the death penalty as a form of punishment. In many cases, religious and ethnic minorities, political dissidents, and women are targets of the death penalty in a discriminatory manner. The rising trend of executions, particularly public executions, is being used by the mullahs' regime as a tool to instill fear and prevent any potential uprisings.
Record holder of executions of women
The Iranian regime is the world's top record holder of executions of women.
No government in the world has executed so many women. The list does not account for the tens of thousands of women executed in Iran on political grounds. The NCRI Women's Committee previously mentioned that many of the women executed by the mullahs’ regime are themselves victims of domestic violence against women and have acted in self-defense. An average of 15 women were executed every year under the former government in Iran. However, this year, 25 women have been executed under Raisi government which is 10 more than the previous average. The NCRI Women's Committee calls on the United Nations, the European Union, and other relevant international organizations to take urgent action to save the lives of those on death row and stop the use of death penalty in Iran.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/12/29/four-women-executed-in-iran/


Arzhang Mortazawi
Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 29 Dec 2023
<<Arzhang Mortazawi, the Kharazmi University student, is sentenced to detention and additional punishment
Arzhang Mortazawi, a computer science student at Kharazmi University and one of the detainees of the Woman, Life, Freedom (Jin, Jiyan, Azadi) movement, has been sentenced to one year of penal detention, a travel ban, and deprivation of social media activities by the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the university activist Arzhang Mortazawi has been sentenced to one year of penal detention, two years of travel ban, and deprivation of social media activities under the charge of <propaganda against the government> by the first branch of the Karaj revolutionary court, presided over by judge Mousa Asef Alhoseini. This student had been sentenced by the central committee of the science ministry to a four-semester suspension and relocating of his education place from Kharazmi University to Damghan University under the charge of <causing chaos and disturbance in the university> in October 2023. Arzhang Mortazawi was taken into custody during the Woman, Life, Freedom movement on October 7, 2022, by security forces and released one month later on bail. He was transported to Karaj Central Prison on December 17 in order to implement his sentence. Subsequently, he was released on February 21, 2023, due to the <amnesty> decree. Arzhang Mortazawi is the son of political prisoner Abdol Rasoul Mortazawi and one of the signatories to Ali Khameni's resignation statement.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2023/12/arzhang-mortazawi-the-kharazmi-university-student-is-sentenced-to-detention-and-additional-punishment 

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