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Here we are to enter THE IRANIAN
WOMEN'S REVOLUTIONISTS against
the supreme leader, the arch-reactionary Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
and his placeman president, Ebrahim Raisi. The message of
the women when he visited a university is plain: <give way or
get lost> in 2023.
IN MEMORY OF ASRA PANAHI (16)- JHINA MAHSA AMINI (22) - NIKA SHAKARAMI (16), SARINA ESMAILZADEH (16) HADIS NAJAFI (20), AND MORE WOMEN WHO WERE ASSASINATED SO
FAR BY THE IRANIAN AXIS OF EVIL.
Click here for a total list so far
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d'Artali
(Updates August 2, 2024)
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UPDATES OF THE UPRISING
AND REVOLUTION AROUND THE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE
DEATH OF JINA AMINI IN CUSTODY OF THE REGIME'S
ATTEMPT AND CRUELTY TO TRY AND CRUSH IT.
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Articles about JINA
March 4 - February 27, 2024:
<<Iranian Teacher Arrested for
<Illegal Gathering> at Mahsa Amini's Grave...
and more news
UPDATE: February 12 , 2024:
<<Unlawfully Imprisoned Activist
and Organizer of Mahsa Jina Amini's Funeral Must Be
Released on Medical Grounds
<<Mahsa Amini's Father:
<Everything They Have Said and Shown is Lies>
and
WHO JINA AMINI REALLY WAS.
By Diako Alavi, a journalist from Saqqez and family friend of Mahsa
Amini
and
Jina Amini, the face of Irans uprising and revolution:
www.cryfreedom.net/the-face-of-irans-protests.htm
November 15, 2023 -
<<Iranian Woman Arrested on Jinas'
Anniversary Tells Her Story...>
December 12, 2023 -
<<EU Remembers Mahsa Amini at Sakharov Prize Awarding
Ceremony...>
December 23, 2023 -
<<Saleh Nikbakht Interrogated at
Khomeini Airport and the Sakharov Prize confiscated by
Iranian security forces...> |
We all grief for the loss of our sister / daughter of
Iran Armita Gevarnand:
Read her story here
AND
Updates of Jina Aminis' Revolution:
Part
16:
December 28 - 16, 2023
Part 17:
January 23 - 6, 2024
Part 18:
March 4
- February 8, 2024
and links to earlier parts
Gino d'artali's opinion: We mourn AND fight!
And read also
ONGOING 'TILL VICTORY:
Jan 2024: 'WOMAN, LIFE, FREEDOM'
REVOLUTION
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December 31,
2023 - Preface about the below 3 heroines of Iran by
Gino d'Artali : Beacons of hope and inspiration on the
road towards a long and free Iran . * Jina Amini,
our sister/daughter who martyred herself for freedom;
*Narges Mohammadi, our sister and as I call her 'mother
of a free Iran' and winner of the Nobel Prize of Freedom
2023 and sentenced five times to a total of 31 years in
prison and 154 lashes but who refuses to give in to the
mullahs' regime to wear a hijab or bow to their demands
and therefore is refused medical care although needing
it badly and bringing her live in danger but says "Victory
is not easy, but it is certain" * and Maryam
Akbari Monfared, our sister who's encarcerated since
15 years and refuses to bow down to the mullahs saying "Finally,
one day, I will sing the song of victory from the summit
of the mountain, like the sun. Tomorrow belongs to us"
Read all about them here and let them inspire you on
your road towards a long and free Iran or as we say in
the West: 'Three strikes and the mullahs' regime is out'
Be the finalizing strike dear and brave dissent
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A to VICTORY tribute to
NARGES MOHAMMADI
Update May 27, 2024
Narges Mohammadi, the imprisoned
Nobel Peace Prize laureate criticizes the United
Nations' planned memorial ceremony for Ebrahim Raisi,
calling it "a commemoration of the executions and mass
killings."
May 6, 2024
"Tyranny will fall"
"Victory is not easy, but it is certain"
watch it here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LAMPz57Aqw
Updates:
January 23, 2024
"The more of us they lock-up the
stronger we become"...
Click here for a news-overview
from January 15, 2024 'till October 31, 2023
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JINA AMINI'S VOICE IS ALSO HEARD
And do read the incredible update!
despite the mullahs'
regime to force it down!
And her mother speaks
out loud and clear
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MARJAM AKBARI
MONFARED
Dec 30, 2023: Not bowing for the mullahs' regime
she says:
"Finally, one
day, I will sing the song of victory from the summit of
the mountain, like the sun. Tomorrow belongs to us"
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Please do read
the following articles with mostly very
'Inspiring Stories' - click on the underlined topics -
Updates
July 30, 2024:
Bogus Political Charges
July 27, 2024:
World Must Remain Focused on Atrocities
July 26, 2024:
UN Report Exposes 1988 Massacre
July 16, 2024:
Locking Up Its Labor Activists
and
Click here for previous inspiring
stories and articles
incl. Red Alerts |
'The mullahs' regime / OHCHR* gallows' dance'
Update on this page:
July 8 - 4, 2024:
The-death-sentence-against-Sharifeh-Mohammadi
June 15, 2024:
Prisoner Swap with Iran is
Shameful Reward
June 5 - May 23, 2024:
It |Iran| puts people to death in
order to terrorize the population into silence.
and other stories
*OHCHR - UN Office of
the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Click here for earlier reports |
July 30 - 25, 2024
Read all about the ordeal
of Ms. Pakhsan Azizi
and <<Femicide: Young Woman
Murdered in Salmas under the Pretext of <Honor>...
and <<Unyielding Spirits:
The Fight for Liberation from Evin's Walls...
and <<Recantation by Key
Suspect Disrupts Iranian Filmmaker's Murder Case...
and <<Tehran Police Conduct
Phone Checks at Metro Stations...
and <<Bukan: Ahmad
Hassanzadeh and Solmaz Hassanzadeh, Family Members of
Slain Protestor, Arrested...
and <<Woman arrested in
Ardabil for publishing photos without headscarf...
and <<Three Kurdish
Religious Activists Charged with Rebellion by Iranian
Judiciary...
and <<Woman hanged in
Central Prison of Khorramabad: 5 women executed in just
one week...
and <<Gathering and Protest
of Women Political Prisoners in Evin Prison’s Women's
Ward...
and more actual news
and it will also bring you through more news in
June 2024 |
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 - 26 July 2024 - in Women's News
<<UN Report Exposes 1988 Massacre in Iran as Genocide: Urgent Call for
International Action
July 28th marks the anniversary of the massacre of at least 30,000
political prisoners in Iran in the summer of 1988.
The clerical regime had been preparing for this massacre since the
winter and spring of 1988 by relocating prisoners from one prison to the
other. On July 20, the authorities transferred a group of young women
prisoners out of the Prison of Ilam (western Iran). They executed Farah
Eslami, Hakimeh Rizvandi, Marzieh Rahmati, Nasrin Rajabi, and Jasoumeh
Heydari on a hill in Shabab village in that province. On the morning of
July 28, however, a Death Commission was stationed in Evin Prison in
Tehran. Within a few hours, hundreds of prisoners were hanged in Evin
Prison. The Death Commission only asked a couple of questions and issued
their death verdicts. The same was simultaneously happening in all major
prisons across the country. The massacre of political prisoners in
Gohardasht Prison in Karaj started on July 30. Thirty-six years later,
on July 22, 2024, on the eve of this bloody anniversary, the UN Human
Rights Center issued a statement in Geneva in which it announced that
Professor Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights in "Iran - in final findings before his mandate ends on 31
July - said that the "atrocity crimes" of summary, arbitrary and
extra-judicial executions during 1981-1982 and in 1988 amounted to
crimes against humanity of murder and extermination, as well as
genocide. The executions included women - some reportedly raped before
being executed - and many children. Crimes against humanity also
included imprisonment, torture, and enforced disappearances."
The Most Robust UN Report on 1988 massacre
The report is the most robust United Nations report in the past 40 years
addressing, among other topics, the issue of genocide against the
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). It concludes that
what occurred was indeed genocide. The majority of the executions
targeted the PMOI and individuals who remained steadfast in their
beliefs. The Special Rapporteur called for an independent international
mechanism to ensure thorough investigations and accountability for
serious crimes, including crimes against humanity, genocide, and sexual
violence. This mechanism aims to gather and preserve evidence for future
prosecutions and address atrocities committed against political
opponents, religious minorities, and women and girls in Iran. Prof.
Rehman has also called "upon individual member states of the United
Nations to make use of universal jurisdiction to investigate, issue
arrest warrants against, and prosecute individuals for "atrocity crimes"
- committed during the 1980s and in particular during 1981-1982 and in
1988 - including crimes against humanity as well as genocide and other
serious human rights violations amounting to crimes under international
law including torture, enforced disappearances and summary, arbitrary
and extrajudicial executions." (VIII. Conclusions and Recommendations,
p. 62, Paragraph m.) "The continued concealment of the fate of thousands
of political opponents and the whereabouts of their remains amounts to
the crime against humanity of enforced disappearance," Prof. Rehman said
in the press statement. "I have observed the failure to ensure justice
and accountability in Iran and how this is impacting the families of the
victims and the current human rights situation in the country." The
Iranian government continues to deny the "atrocity crimes", perpetrators
have not been brought to justice. "I repeat, there should be no impunity
for such gross human rights violations, regardless of when they were
committed. The Iranian regime and its leaders should not be allowed to
escape the consequences of their crimes against humanity and genocide.
An independent international investigative and accountability mechanism
for Iran is absolutely essential," Rehman said.
The 1988 Massacre
In Section A of Chapter V, "The 1988 Massacre and "Atrocity Crimes,"" it
is written in part:
In the aftermath of the government's crackdown in 1981 and in subsequent
years, tens of thousands of opponents of the Islamic Republic of Iran
were arbitrarily imprisoned and tortured and thousands were subjected to
arbitrary, summary and extra-judicial executions. The 1988 Massacre in
the Islamic Republic of Iran refers to the "systematic" and "widespread"
attack on a civilian population resulting in mass murder, summary,
arbitrary and extra-judicial executions as well as enforced
disappearances of thousands of political prisoners between
July-September 1988. Three and a half decades onwards - over 35 years -
the enforced disappearances are continuing. An overwhelming majority of
the executed prisoners were members and sympathisers of the People's
Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), also known as the Mujahedin-e
Khalq (MEK), although hundreds of individuals belonging to leftist
political groups and organisations were also forcibly disappeared and
executed. The 1988 massacre reportedly initiated following a fatwa
(religious decree) by Iran's then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah
Musavi Khomeini, although witnesses in their testimonies and many
survivors of the massacre have informed the Special Rapporteur that the
plan of execution of prisoners were afoot several months in advance of
the massacre. The survivors and families of the victims have testified
that towards the end of July 1988, prisons across Iran were placed in a
lockdown and all communication was cut off and prison environment became
abnormal. Televisions were taken away and newspapers were abruptly
stopped.
GenocideIn section H of Chapter V, the UNSR report, we read, "The
specific requirements of the Genocide Convention and the challenges
related to establishing genocide have already been considered.
Khomeini's fatwa, a key document of the 1988 massacre, lays bare the
genocidal intent in physically destroying the PMOI, which was treated as
a religious group by the perpetrators. The fatwa explicitly
characterizes the PMOI’s alleged religious transgressions as <waging war
against God> that must be punished by execution. Khomeini decreed "Since
the treacherous monafeqin [PMOI] do not believe in Islam and whatever
they say stems from their deception and hypocrisy, and since, as per the
admissions of their leaders, they have deserted Islam, and since they
wage war against God ... it follows that those who remain steadfast in
their position of nefaq in prisons throughout the country are considered
to be mohareb [waging war against God] and are condemned to execution.
The religious rhetoric against the monafeqin is evident from the fatwa
of Khomeini. (Geoffery) Robertson has noted, 'The MKO were treated as a
religious group by their persecutors: those who did not repent their
'hypocrisy' and repudiate their deviation were for that reason killed -
for being 'steadfast in their adherence to a corrupt version of Islam'.'
Unlawful, intentional killing was conducted, involving the murder of
prisoners on political as well as religious grounds, subsequent to the
fatwa from the Supreme Leader. The first phase of the mass executions
was intended to exterminate all PMOI affiliated political prisoners. In
the second wave, individuals belonging to leftist political
organisations and atheist, or agnostic groups were targeted.”
In another part, Section H reads, "Thus focusing on the specific context
of the 1988 massacre, the evidence presented to the Special Rapporteur
establishes - in so far as the perpetrators and executions were
concerned - a genocidal intent to physically destroy, in whole or in
part, atheist or agnostic groups which the perpetrators understood and
described as "apostates": the inquisitorial process was focused on the
religious beliefs of the prisoners and those claiming to be atheists or
Marxists were executed. As noted in the earlier discussion, the Special
Rapporteur is of the view that apostates, atheistic and agnostic groups
fall under the protection of the Genocide Convention. The treatment of
the PMOI as a religious as well as political opposition was established
from the early days of the Islamic Revolution."
Gender-based CrimesIn Section A of Chapter VI, "Marginalized
Communities," the UNSR points out, "As earlier noted, women and girls
belonging to opposition groups were targeted, and many belonging to PMOI
as well as to secular and leftist groups were summarily, arbitrarily,
and extra-judicially executed throughout the 1980s."
Exhibition on 1988 massacre outside French parliament UN Report genocide
Protesting memorial
Continuing impunity since 1979
In Section A of Chapter VII, "Impunity for Atrocity-Crimes," it is
written:
Ever since the 1979 Revolution in Iran, those who ordered and
perpetuated the "atrocity crimes" of crimes against humanity as well as
genocide, particularly during 1980–1981 and 1988 have remained in
government. Many were rewarded for their role in their crimes and have
been promoted to high positions in the government, the judiciary, and
within the judicial and domestic executive of the country. Conversely,
those like the former Deputy Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali
Montazeri, who was critical of the mass executions of 1988 were removed
from office. After the death of the Ayatollah Khomeini, Montazeri was
replaced by Ali Khamenei as the Supreme Leader. Ali Khamenei is alleged
to have been involved in crimes against humanity during the 1980s.
Montazeri was put under house arrest in 1997 after he questioned "the
accountable rule exercised by the Supreme Leader". The magnitude and
numbers of those involved in these crimes is enormous stretching from
the Supreme Leader, the Sharia’s judges, the prosecutors, representative
from the Ministry of Intelligence, members of the <death commission> and
their facilitators; prison guards, members of the Revolutionary Guards
and all those who facilitated the commission of these crimes in
international law and their subsequent ongoing concealment. The Special
Rapporteur regrets to note that many of the individuals who are alleged
to have committed serious crimes in international law remain in
high-powered positions as of today. The former Iranian President,
Ebrahim Raisi, acted as a member of the <Death Commission> in Tehran,
and many witnesses in their testimonies made references to his role in
the mass executions of 1988. Notwithstanding his death in May 2024, it
is important that international justice must prevail; his death must not
result in the denial of the right to truth, justice and reparations for
the Iranian people. Those who committed crimes against humanity and
other crimes in international law during the 1980s and subsequently must
be held accountable and impunity must end in the Islamic Republic of
Iran.
Maryam Akbari Monfared
The Case of Maryam Akbari Monfared
In Section C, "Accountability mechanisms," of Chapter VII, the UNSR
brings up the case of political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared:
As mentioned above, in the prevailing environment it is impossible to
seek any form of accountability at the domestic level for crimes
committed during the 1980s. There are currently no avenues to seek truth
and justice and no prospects of claiming reparations in the Islamic
Republic of Iran. Indeed, those seeking accountability are frequently
targeted, persecuted and punished. One poignant example illustrating
this pattern of harassment and persecution is the case of Maryam
Akbari-Monfared, a political prisoner in the country. Ms.
Akbari-Monfared displayed immense courage by filing an official
complaint from inside prison on 15 October 2016, addressing the Iranian
judiciary regarding the execution of her siblings during the 1988
massacre. In response to her pursuit of accountability, she has faced
increased pressure while incarcerated, including the denial of
visitations and her forced exile to a remote location, far from her
children. Authorities have informed Ms. Akbari-Monfared that her release
is contingent on retracting her call for accountability regarding her
siblings' murder. Despite enduring a 15-year sentence without a single
day of furlough, including during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ms.
Akbari-Monfared's ordeal continues. On 1 July 2023, she was summoned to
the Courthouse of Evin Prison and arraigned on five new charges,
subsequently receiving an additional two-year sentence. Information from
sources within the prison suggests that her continued detention is aimed
at coercing her into renouncing her pursuit of accountability. The
treatment of Maryam Akbari-Monfared serves as a stark illustration of
the lengths to which Iranian authorities are willing to go to silence
those seeking justice for the victims of the 1988 massacre and to
suppress any calls for accountability with impunity. Having regard to
the impossibility of obtaining justice at the domestic level, there are
possibilities of accountability at the international level or in a
foreign state outside the jurisdiction of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Efforts to engage the International Criminal Court are unlikely to be
unsuccessful.
UN Report 1988 massacre genocide Maryam Akbari Monfared
Maryam Akbari Monfared and her four siblings
Need for an independent international investigative and accountability
mechanism
In Chapter VIII of the report, "Conclusions and Recommendations,"
Professor Rehman said:
The Special Rapporteur seeks the establishment of an international
accountability mechanism to ensure prompt, impartial, thorough and
transparent criminal investigations inter alia of:
(a) the "atrocity crime" of crimes against humanity, committed against
thousands of political opponents of the authorities, in particular their
mass murder through summary, arbitrary and extra-judicial executions,
and imprisonment, torture, rape and other sexual offences, other
inhumane acts, as well as the enforced disappearances.
(b) the "atrocity crime" of genocide during the 1980s including in
1981–1982 and 1988 committed with perpetrator’s specific intent of
killing, or physically or mentally harming members of groups perceived
as apostates, non-believers, believing in deviant religions or beliefs
or members of religious minorities.
(c) sexual and gender-based crimes against women and girls, including
cases of reported rape and other sexual offences, as well as the
repression and persecution of ethnic, linguistic and religious
minorities during the first decade of the establishment of the Islamic
Republic of Iran.
Obligations of the International Community
The Special Rapporteur calls upon the international community to require
the Iranian authorities to inter alia:
(a) disclose fully and publicly the truth regarding the mass enforced
disappearances and summary, arbitrary and extra-judicial executions of
1981-1982 and July-September 1988, including the names of all the
persons who have been executed, the cause and circumstances of their
disappearances or their executions and the location of individual and
mass graves containing the remains of the victims. Tragic, as it is,
solemn disclosures would also mean that appropriate death certificates
(with accurate dates and details) of all those who have been executed
must be issued.
(b) issue an official and public apology accepting state responsibility
for the crimes committed during the 1980s and in particular during
1981-1982 and July-September 1988.
(c) stop the destruction and damaging of individual and mass grave sites
that are suspected or known to contain the remains of the victims of the
mass summary, arbitrary and extra-judicial executions of the 1980s
including the June 1981-March 1982 massacre and the July-September 1988
massacre.
(d) provide the relatives of the victims all relevant information
including the location of the graves and the remains. This information
must include an honest and truthful explanation of what happened to
their loved ones.
(e) initiate forensic investigations, with the help of independent,
international forensics experts and following meaningful consultation
with all affected communities to establish the number and identity of
people buried in mass graves as part of a long-overdue thorough,
independent and impartial investigation into the mass executions in
Iran.
(f) ensure that identified bodies are returned to families for proper
burial.
Need for the UN Security to Take Up the Case
Professor Javaid Rehman's final report emphasizes the urgent need for
the UN Security Council to address severe human rights violations in
Iran-a demand long made by the Iranian Resistance. The report highlights
that many individuals involved in these violations remain in high
positions within the regime, underscoring the necessity for the Security
Council to pursue trials for key officials, including Ali Khamenei. It
is no longer justified to engage in negotiations with a regime involved
in crimes against humanity and genocide. The international community's
inaction has allowed atrocities, such as the 2019 and 2022 massacres of
protesters, to continue.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2024/07/26/un-report-1988-massacre-genocide/
Women's
Liberation Front 2019/cryfreedom.net 2024
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