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Welcome to cryfreedom.net, formerly known as Womens Liberation Front.  A website that hopes to draw and keeps your attention for  babout the 21th. century feminist revolution as well especially the Zan, Zendegi, Azadi uprising in Iran and the and the uprisings of our sisters in other parts of the Middle-east. This online magazine that started December 2019 is published every week. Thank you for your time and interest.
Gino d'Artali
indept investigative journalist
radical feminist and women's rights activist 
 


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Click here for the Iran 'Woman, Life, Freedom' section  Updated August 8, 2024                             
 
For the 'Women's Arab Spring 1.2' Revolt news click here  Updated August 7, 2024

 

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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

And also
Read all about the assasination of the 22 year young Jina Mahsa Amini (Kurdistan-Iran) and the start of the Zan, Zendegi, Azadi (Women, life, freedom) revolution in Iran  2022
and the latest news about the 'Women Live Freedom' Revolution per month in
2024: August wk2 -- August wk1 P3 -- August wk1 P2 --  August wk1 -- July wk4 P4 -- July wk4 P3 -- July wk4 P2 -- July wk4 -- July wk3 P2 -- July wk3 -- July wk2 P3 --   overview per month
  
and 2023: Dec wk 5 part 2 -- Dec wk 5 -- Dec week 4-3 -- Dec wk3 -- Dec 17 - 10 -- Dec week 2 and 1 -- click here for a menu overview November - Januari 2023


Tribute to KIAN PIRFALA, 9 years old and victim of the Islamic Republic's savagery 10 years ago. Update December 23, 2023

Editorial by G. d'A.: Dear reader, as a webmaster also I constantly have to guard the read-ability of the 'Cryfreedom'-outlet and sometimes decisions need to be made to have it be for your convenience and moreso in total support of the women-led revolt in Iran which inevitably will be a grand Victory. Still, choices must be made always and so I've decided to, for now, embed all the actual news about the 'NO-hijab; 'Biological terror attscks against schoolgirls'; 'Iranian journalists under siege'; 'Blinding as a weapon' and 'The hanging spree' as part of the 'Actual news' updates of the Iran 'Woman, Life, Freedom' section. But, if need be and urgent attention and action is needed concerning the above mentioned topics it will get an extra emphasized place as part of the actual news page-layout. Thank you for being a reader and for your support of the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' revolution.
Click here for the previously tabled topics

CLICK HERE ON HOW TO READ ALL ON THIS PAGE 

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

Dear reader, from here on the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' pages menu will look a bit different and this to avoid too many pop-ups ,meaning the underlined period  in yellow tells you in what period you are and click on another underlinded period to go there. However, when needed a certain topic will be in yellow meaning it's a link to go that topic and will open in a new window. If you dissagree about any change feel more than free to let me know what you think at info@cryfreedom.net
This does not count for the  above topics which, when clicked on, will still appear in a pop-up window and for now the 'old' lay-out 'till I worked that all out. Thank you. Gino d'Artali
(Updates August 9, 2024) z



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. 

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

A to VICTORY tribute to
NARGES MOHAMMADI
Update August 5, 2024
"You are obligated to hold a public trial with the presence of independent journalists, women's rights activists, human rights advocates, and my lawyers. I wish to be prosecuted in court with the testimony of witnesses of the sexual assaults committed by the Islamic Republic regime against women,"
and
Narges-Mohammadi-Denied-Urgent-Medical-Treatment

and earlier heroic stories
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
 

 

 

 

 



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

 


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 




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"



 


July 23 - 22, 2024
Read here her full story:
Pakhsan Azizi, "Denying the Truth, and Its Alternative"

 

 

June 19, 2024
Neda Agha Sultan Face of the 2009 uprising in Iran

  

Click here for more stories of Heroines of Iran 

 May 27, 2024
Zhina Modarres Gorji, Kurdish Women's Sentenced to 21 Years
 
 

Please do read the following articles with mostly very 'Inspiring Stories' - click on the underlined topics -
Updates
August 8, 2024: Highway police crackdown on hijab control

August 7, 2024: Blinded--Seeking Revenge is Not the Path to Justice
and
Islamic Republic Escalates Its Killing Spree

August 5, 2024: Forced-Divorce--A Tool of Psychological Torture

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

August 7 - 6, 2024
<<Brother of Killed Protester Mehran Basir Tavana Arrested by Iranian Security Forces...
and <<Kurdish Civil Activist Hekmat Amiri Sentenced to 42 Months in Prison...
and <<Prisoner Dies in Urmia Prison After Being Denied Transfer to Medical Centers...
and <<Video of Iran's Morality Police Beating Teen Girls Sparks Outrage...
and <<Executed Protester Reza Rasaei Buried Under Tight Security...
and <<UN Report: Iran's Crackdown Hit Protesters and Minorities Hard...
and <<Execution of Political Prisoner Reza Rasaei Ignites Protests in Evin Women's Ward...
and <<IRGC forces kill, injure five people from same family in Khash...
and more actual news
   

 and it will also bring you through more news in July 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.


 
Iranwire - August 7, 2024 - by Aida Ghajar
<<Nemat Afshar: Seeking Revenge is Not the Path to Justice
Months have passed since the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, yet many victims and survivors of one of the most violent crackdowns by the Islamic Republic in the history of social movements in Iran remain unheard. Nemat Afshar is one such victim of the crackdown on the movement. An athlete and a cafe owner, he took to the streets on September 20, 2022, in Qazvin and was shot with a shotgun. My interview with Nemat was over the phone. The internet connection was unstable, frequently disconnecting and reconnecting, but despite these challenges, we managed to speak.
Security forces arrested Nemat Afshar the same night he was injured, with a wounded eye and pellets lodged in his face and body. Consequently, he couldn't receive timely treatment for his injured eye. Had he been taken to the hospital that night instead of the detention center, he might still have some vision left. With limited time and the possibility of losing the connection at any moment, I chose to ask fewer questions and let Nemat share his story. He spoke of how revenge is not the answer. Nemat Afshar was arrested again last year, on the anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death, at a friend’s house, but he was released on bail after a short while.

Jina Amini
The light from the phone hurts his eyes. I’ve heard this type of visual problem many times from people with eye injuries, both when they're in front of a phone and when they're in front of a camera or under a projector. On one of the nights of nationwide protests in 2022, the security forces aimed at protestors' heads, faces, and eyes with their guns. Nemat also took to the streets in one of Qazvin's neighborhoods on the first nights of the protests and joined the demonstrators. The crowd gathered in the square, while the forces lurked in the alley. They suddenly rushed toward the protesters. Nemat was at the front of the line, confronting the forces. One of the agents crouched down, and Nemat saw this scene unfold. The agent aimed his shotgun at Nemat's face and pulled the trigger. Nemat, who had been shot in the leg and back before, said, "The security force got me this time." He doesn't know how many bullets split his eyeball and facial flesh. He estimates there were more than 20 bullets. "One pellet is still in my temple. One in my eye. I removed the rest myself. My lip was pierced, and I pulled the pellet out of that side of my lip. Another pellet lodged in one side of my body."
Reviewing the narratives and files of at least 120 protest crackdown victims shows that most were targeted for being at the forefront of the gatherings. Of the cases IranWire has investigated since December 2022, all the victims have been threatened, arrested, and, in some cases, sentenced to prison by security agencies. What happened in the detention center with a bloody eye? Nemat Afshar, now 37, lives with his mother. He had gone home after being shot. Security forces raided their house at night. There were six or seven agents in both plain clothes and military uniforms. Nemat didn't want to resist; his eye was injured, and pellets had grazed his face. But when his mother stepped forward to stand in front of the officers, they disrespected her, and Nemat lost his patience, stepping up to defend his mother. The officers struck Nemat in the mouth with the butt of a gun, breaking some of his teeth. He was arrested without knowing where they were taking him or where he was held. He was blindfolded. They provided no explanations, nor did they inform his mother of his whereabouts until some time after his arrest. Two weeks later, they finally told his mother, who had been relentlessly searching for her son, <He is in temporary detention. Do not pursue; we will release him.> During the days Nemat's mother was desperately searching for him, the interrogations continued. With his eyes blindfolded, Nemat, whose sight was on the verge of being lost due to the agents' weapons, faced questioning. They didn't allow him to defend himself: "They said I was [a member of] ISIS." Nemat was under interrogation for 10 days. The officers demanded to know who had sent him to the street. When Nemat answered that he had come for his rights, they didn’t believe him. "They broke my finger right there. They put a paper in front of me to sign. I said, let me read it first. My hand was on the table. When I said this, they struck my hand and broke my finger. They said, 'You don't set the terms for us, we tell you what to do.' They tried to force me to confess, which I refused." During the interrogation, Nemat's ribs were also broken. Three months after his arrest, Nemat was released under a <Leadership amnesty.> However, he was required to commit to staying away from protests and refraining from any actions deemed <against the security of the system.> Despite enduring and resisting torture, Nemat's injured eye remains a significant concern. Had he been taken to the hospital instead of the detention center, his left eye might have retained some degree of vision. After his release, Nemat was unable to undergo the necessary surgery. He visited Farabi Hospital in Tehran but received a vague response, suggesting the treatment might no longer be effective. Disheartened, he was discouraged from pursuing further treatment. Additionally, he lost his job and could not afford the surgery. Nemat, an athlete who previously ran a canteen, saw his business shut down before the protests. Authorities sealed his canteen, claiming it was inappropriate for young people to smoke hookah and drink coffee there, and confiscated all its property. His injuries prevented him from continuing his sports career.
In March, a group of citizens provided some assistance, enabling him to have surgery on his eye. After more than six months since his injury, he traveled to Shiraz for the procedure. Surgeons operated on his eyelids, drained the remaining blood from his eyes, and injected silicone behind his retina to help it adhere. Currently, Nemat can only perceive light and detect movement as shadows. He reflects on his experiences, "I still experience stress and nightmares. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed. The bullet itself didn’t have a significant psychological impact, but the psychological damage came from my arrest-how they treated my mother, and the subsequent torture, cursing, and humiliation had a profound effect on me." Nemat adds, "When I compare myself to those who harmed me, I see that no circumstances would make me act like them, regardless of my beliefs or any amount of money offered. I don’t want to be like them or behave in that manner." He emphasizes that he is not seeking revenge but hopes for justice, "As a human being, I must stand against injustice. I will not lose my rights, but I don’t want to inflict on others what was done to me. I am not seeking revenge. Justice is not revenge." >>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/blinding-as-a-weapon/132625-nemat-afshar-seeking-revenge-is-not-the-path-to-justice/#google_vignette

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