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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 wk4 -- August WK3 P3 -- August wk3 P2 -- August wk3 -- August wk2 P4 -- August wk2 P3 -- August wk2 P2 -- August wk2 -- August wk1 P3 -- August wk1 P2 --  August wk1 -- 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 --  November - Januari 2023

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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 
You are now at the Iran 'Woman, Life, Freedom'  section

For the 'Women's Arab Spring 1.2' Revolt news click here  Updated August 16, 2024  

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)- JINA MAMINI (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
(Updates August 23, 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

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

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We all grief for the loss of our sister / daughter of Iran Armita Gevarnand:
 


Read her updated 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
August 9, 2024
"My heart cries...
(For Narges Mohammadi and all suffering but fighting back mothers/women)

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 

Click here for a news-overview from January 15, 2024 'till October 31, 2023

 

 

 

 



JINA AMINI'S VOICE IS ALSO HEARD
And do read also the above linked  incredible December 2023 update!

despite the mullahs' regime to force it down!
Her mother speaks out loud and clear

Click here for the latest news of the
'Woman, Life, Freedom'
revolution


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 






PAKSHAN AZIZI
Actual News: August 19, 2024
Sentenced to Death for Assisting Women Targeted by ISIS
And read here her full story:
July 23 - 22, 2024
"Denying the Truth, and Its Alternative"

and more in actual news below

MARJAM AKBARI MONFARED

June 24, 2024: The Iranian Regime Judiciary Launches a New Case to Seize the Assets of Maryam Akbari Monfared and Her Family, in Revenge for Seeking Justice for Her Siblings Executed in the 1980s
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"

 

 

 

 



 

August 14, 2024
<<Fatemeh Amini, symbol of perseverance and steadfastness

 

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 about heroines who risk live and limb for the women-led revolution and no matter what they'll never give in nor up!and other stories: click on the underlined topics:
August 21, 2024: Poltical prisoners denied access to medical care
And: Nineteenth Day of Nationwide Nurse Protests
19 August 2024 - Repression in Iranian Universities: Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi and Basij Forces Fill Classrooms
And: The Healthcare Workforce Crisis in Iran
And: Iran Rights Groups Call for Independent Investigation into Violence Against Women Political Prisoners
August 14, 2024: An Iranian Activist’s Journey Through Fear, Loss, and Exile
 
 and 
Click here for previous inspiring stories and  articles incl. Red Alerts  

SPECIAL REPORTS PALESTINE

Click here for actual updates  Updated August 16, 2024

'The mullahs' regime / OHCHR* gallows' dance'

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 21, 2024
<<Report of a Woman Set on Fire by Her Husband in Shiraz...
and <<Iran Blocks Families from Memorial at 1988 Mass Grave Site...
and <<Iran Arrests Nurses Amid Healthcare Workers' Strike...
and <<89 Iranians Charged Five Years After 2019 Protests...
and <<Mother Reveals Iranian Teen's Violent Assault Over Hijab...
and more actual news

and PAKSHAN AZIZI Sentenced to Death for Assisting Women Targeted by ISIS...

May 10 - 3, 2024

'War against the No-hijabi women'
 

 

 

August 21 - 18, 2024
<<Women journalists: We will raise our voice against executions...
and <<Exclusive Hengaw Report on the Suicide of a Child Laborer Following Sexual Assault and Extortion by Two Individuals in Qorveh...
and <<Parivash Moslemi, detained in Evin Prison, needs urgent medical attention care...
and <<Relative of sick prisoner demands release of all sick prisoners...
and <<Thirty Weeks of Iranian Prisoners' Campaign Against the Death Penalty...
and <<Two Kurdish Kolbars Injured by Direct Gunfire from Iranian Border Guards...
and <<Escalating Arrests of Kurdish Women in Iran: A Concerning Trend...
and more actual news

 and it will also bring you through more news in August and earlier in 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.

Dear reader, let us, apart from all the other news following please read first a horryfying fact about the femicidal killing of a woman set on fire by her husband:
In other words: Rise more for the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' uprisal. Gino d'Artali


Women set on fire
Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 22 August 2024
<<Report of a Woman Set on Fire by Her Husband in Shiraz
A woman was set on fire by her husband in Shiraz, with the incident being reported by government media as a result of so-called <family disputes,> a label commonly used in cases of femicide. According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Monday, August 12, 2024, a 48-year-old man set fire to his wife and her father in a neighborhood in Shiraz. In this tragic incident, his wife and two of her sisters lost their lives, while her father was also injured. The official site of the Young Journalists Club reported that the killer, who was arrested shortly after the incident, went to his wife's family home on the day of the attack and set them on fire by pouring gasoline. The motive for this heinous crime is being attributed to <family disputes.> >>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2024/08/article-87

And other actual news:


Iran Blocks Families from Memorial
Iranwire - August 23, 2024
<<Iran Blocks Families from Memorial at 1988 Mass Grave Site
Iran's police force has stopped dozens of families from visiting the Khavaran cemetery in Tehran to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the mass execution of political prisoners in the summer of 1988. Reports from social media indicate that police blocked access to the site, preventing families from reaching the graves of their loved ones. According to sources, an estimated 70 to 80 family members arrived at Khavaran only to find the gates closed and police personnel deployed there. In response, the families placed bouquets and photo frames of the executed people at the cemetery entrance. They also sang the "Khavaran memory" to honor the memory of those executed. Khavaran cemetery is adjacent to several burial grounds for religious minorities. It is believed to be the site of mass graves where thousands of political and ideological prisoners were secretly buried after being executed in Tehran prisons during the summer of 1988. In his last report, Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, emphasized that the actions of the Islamic Republic in the 1980s amounted to "genocide" and "crimes against humanity." "The Iranian regime and its leaders should not be allowed to escape the consequences of their crimes against humanity and genocide," he said.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/133164-iran-blocks-families-from-memorial-at-1988-mass-grave-site/

Iranwire - August 23, 2024
<<Iran Arrests Nurses Amid Healthcare Workers' Strike
Iranian security forces have arrested several nurses at a hospital in Tehran amid ongoing nationwide strikes by healthcare workers. According to the human rights website Hengaw, nurse Zahra Tamandon was taken into custody on Wednesday, along with several other nurses whose identities remain unconfirmed. A source suggested that these arrests were likely connected to their recent participation in nurses' strikes across the country.
The healthcare sector in Iran has been in turmoil for the past 17 days, with strikes affecting around 50 hospitals and medical centers across seven provinces. On Wednesday, nurses and medical staff held rallies in front of the Ministry of Health building in Tehran, as well as in the cities of Marivan, Ahvaz, and Isfahan. The protesters are voicing concerns over low pay, lack of job security, and poor prospects that have driven many healthcare workers to leave the country.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/133161-iran-arrests-nurses-amid-healthcare-workers-strike/

Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 23 August 2024
<<Elham Ostadi, a Baloch Woman Activist, Sentenced to One Year in Prison
Elham Ostadi, a Baloch woman activist who was detained for two weeks last summer in Chabahar by security forces, has been sentenced to one year of imprisonment by the Iranian judiciary. According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, Elham Ostadi, a 30-year-old Baloch woman activist from Iranshahr, was sentenced to one year in prison by Branch 2 of the Zahedan Revolutionary Court on the charge of <propaganda against the government.> Informed sources stated that Elham Ostadi was violently arrested by Iranian security forces in Chabahar on August 22, 2023, and was temporarily released on bail of 200 million tomans after 12 days, on September 2 of the same year.
Her arrest was carried out following a post on Instagram concerning an assault by Colonel Ebrahim Kuchakzai, the Chabahar police chief.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2024/08/article-91


Elham Ostadi
Iranwire - August 23, 2024
<<Iran Court Sentences Protester to One Year in Prison for <Propaganda>
An Iranian woman protester from southeastern Iranshahr has been sentenced to one year in prison by the Zahedan Revolutionary Court on propaganda charges. Elham Ostadi, 30, received her sentencing on Tuesday. The verdict stems from charges of <propaganda against the Islamic Republic> related to her social media activity during the 2022 protests in Sistan and Baluchistan. According to reports, Ostadi was arrested by security forces without a court order in August last year in Chabahar. Despite not being physically present at street demonstrations, she was targeted for her online support of the peaceful protests. Following her arrest, Ostadi was transferred to Zahedan Central Prison and held in solitary confinement for ten days. She was later released on bail. Security forces killed at least 108 protesters, bystanders, and worshippers, including children, in the capital of southeastern Sistan and Baluchistan province on September 30, 2022, according to local human rights groups. The victims included a two-year-old toddler and an 88-year-old woman. The unrest erupted two weeks into the 2022 protests demanding fundamental changes in the country, but its trigger was accusations that a police officer in the province had raped a 15-year-old girl.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/133154-iran-court-sentences-protester-to-one-year-in-prison-for-propaganda/


Mohammad Rasoulof
Iranwire - August 23, 2024
<<Germany Nominates Exiled Iranian Director's Film for Oscar
Germany has chosen the film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, directed by Iranian dissident filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, as its entry for the 2025 Academy Awards in the Best International Feature category. It marks the first time an Iranian film has been submitted by Germany for Oscar consideration. Rasoulof qualified for the selection because the film is an Iranian-French-German co-production and because he is now a German resident. The director fled Iran earlier this year to avoid an eight-year prison sentence. He was sentenced for his public statements and for making films and documentaries, which, in the court's opinion, were <examples of collusion with the intention of committing a crime against the country's security.> The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which won a special jury prize at Cannes, has been banned in Iran. Rasoulof's films are celebrated alongside those of fellow countrymen Abbas Kiarostami, Asghar Farhadi, and Jafar Panahi, earning critical acclaim beyond Iran's borders. Among them, Panahi has endured the most consistent persecution by the Iranian state, enduring multiple imprisonments and house arrests.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/society/133158-germany-nominates-exiled-iranian-directors-film-for-oscar/


2019 Protests
Iranwire - August 22 , 2024
<<89 Iranians Charged Five Years After 2019 Protests
89 residents of Iran's Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province have been charged for their alleged involvement in the November 2019 protests. Branch 1 of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in Likak City has brought charges against these individuals five years after they were released on bail. The accusations include <disturbing public order,> <destruction,> and <arson of public and government property.> The charges relate to their participation in the widespread protests that swept across Iran in November 2019. The judge has cited multiple pieces of alleged evidence to support the charges. These include video reports from law enforcement agencies, documents from the Ministry of Intelligence's office, and confessions from the accused, according to the HRANA human rights organization. The November 2019 protests were triggered by a sudden and significant increase in petrol prices. The demonstrations quickly spread across the country, with protesters taking to the streets in numerous cities. The authorities severely suppressed the protests.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/133135-89-iranians-charged-five-years-after-2019-protests/


Dr. Iman Dastyar
Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 22 August 2024
<<Dr. Iman Dastyar Sentenced to Two Years of Imprisonment and a Travel Ban by Iranian Judiciary
Iman Dastyar, a physician and civil activist from Yasuj and one of those arrested during the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement, has been sentenced by the Iranian judiciary to two years of imprisonment and a travel ban. According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Iman Dastyar, a physician and civil activist from Yasuj, the capital of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, and former secretary of the Islamic Students' Association at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, was recently sentenced by Branch 110 of the Second Criminal Court of Yasuj to two years of imprisonment for <spreading lies via computer systems with the intent to disturb public opinion.> Additionally, as part of the supplementary punishments, he was sentenced to an 18-month travel ban. Hengaw has learned that the issued sentence has been suspended for a period of two years. It is noteworthy that Iman Dastyar was arrested on Thursday, September 22, 2022, in one of the squares in Yasuj during the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement and was released after a few days. He was also arrested on Saturday, January 14, 2023, after being summoned to the interrogation branch of the Yasuj Prosecutor's Office, and was released on bail on February 21, 2023, after a few days in detention.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2024/08/article-89


hijab-burka terror
Iranwire - August 21, 2024
<<Mother Reveals Iranian Teen's Violent Assault Over Hijab
The mother of a teenage Iranian girl who was severely beaten for not wearing her headscarf has said her daughter was deeply traumatized by the incident. The 14-year-old Nafas Haji Sharif was beaten up by Iran's notorious Morality Police tasked with enforcing strict dress codes on women. The teenager's mother, Maryam Abbasi, recounted the incident saying, "The officers blocked my daughter's mouth and nose and she could not breathe. A passerby shouted, 'Lady, leave her for God's sake, she is just a child.' It was only then that the officer removed her hand and my daughter was able to breathe again." Abbasi emphasized her concern: "I never wanted my child to lose trust in people around her. How can I ask her to wear her hijab now, with so much anger in her heart?" Speaking to Hammihan newspaper, Abbasi described her daughter's ongoing fear and anxiety after the incident. "She keeps replaying that day in her mind. When we came home, I saw the extent of her injuries. "Even now, she checks the camera behind the apartment door every morning, afraid that the agents have returned. "The agents had threatened her, saying they would imprison her, and that fear remains. "I want to ask those agents, how could they do this? I still can't believe they treated a child this way." Persian-speaking social media users have expressed anger and dismay over the treatment of the teenager. Many called on President Masoud Pezeshkian to honor his campaign pledges to end such confrontations. During his presidential campaign, Pezeshkian repeatedly criticized the Morality Police and its treatment of Iranian women and girls for not adhering to mandatory hijab laws. Since April 13, Iran's law enforcement agencies have intensified the enforcement of hijab regulations under the national action plan "Noor." Across Iran, there have been numerous reports of women being arrested and subjected to the use of force due to perceived violations of dress codes. Users across social networks are participating in a spontaneous campaign using the hashtag "war against women" to document their experiences and observations regarding the government's crackdown on the opponents of mandatory hijab.
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/133081-mother-reveals-iranian-teens-violent-assault-over-hijab/ 


Arshia Rouhani, Hamid Monzavi, and Arash Nabavi
Iranwire - August 21, 2024
<<Iran Court Sentences Three Baha'i Citizens to Prison
An appeals court in Iran's central Isfahan province has sentenced three Baha'i citizens to prison terms and additional penalties amid an ongoing persecution of religious minorities in the country. Arshia Rouhani, Hamid Monzavi, and Arash Nabavi, all residents of Isfahan, have been sentenced to two years in prison each by Branch 37 of the Isfahan Appeals Court. In addition to the prison terms, each defendant faces a fine of 24 million tomans ($400), a two-year ban on leaving the country, and restrictions on online activities for the same period. This ruling significantly reduces earlier, harsher sentences handed down by the Isfahan Revolutionary Court. Previously, Rouhani and Monzavi had been sentenced to five years in prison each, along with fines and asset confiscation. Nabavi had received an even more severe sentence of ten years. Arash Nabavi, 38, was initially arrested in August 2023 and held for two months before being released on bail, according to Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). In September 2023, businesses owned by Rouhani and Monzavi were temporarily sealed by the Ministry of Intelligence, only to be reopened a month later. Subsequently, on October 30, 2023, both men were summoned and arrested by the Isfahan Public Prosecutor's Office. Baha'is have been systematically persecuted in Iran for 44 years because of their faith and are often accused of being spies or opposed to the Iranian government. The Baha'i International Community notes that generally no evidence is provided to demonstrate these charges. The Iranian government has intensified its crackdown on members of the Baha'i faith, imprisoning dozens of them on spurious charges over the past year, as well as denying access to higher education and livelihoods, and confiscating or destroying personal properties.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/bahais-of-iran/133118-iran-court-sentences-three-bahai-citizens-to-prison/

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