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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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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: July wk2 -- July wk1 P2 -- July wk1 -- June wk4 P2 -- June wk4 --  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 July 12, 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 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
 

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"



 



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


 

 

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

Click here for more stories of Heroines of Iran 

April 30, 2024
Atena Farghadani - Target on her back

 

Please do read the following articles with mostly very 'Inspiring Stories' - click on the underlined topics:
June 25, 2024: Sexual rape and torture in prisons and
Women Activists In and Outside Iran's Prisons Targeted
June 24, 2024:
New Case against Maryam Akbari Monfared
and 
Click here for previous inspiring stories and  articles incl. Red Alerts

'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

 July 5 - 3, 2024
<<Murder of a Woman with Honor-Related Motives in Gilan Province...
and <<Political Prisoners in Evin Boycott Presidential Runoff...
and <<Former Tehran University Student Sentenced to Prison for <Propaganda>...
and <<Tehran: Rana Korkor, Sister of Mojahed Korkor, Arrested by Iranian Security Forces...
and <<Rasht: Labor activist, Sharifeh Mohammadi, sentenced to death for <rebellion>...
and <<Family Denied Visits as Mazaher Heydari Protests with Hunger Strike...
and <<Zeinab Jalalian in Dire Health and Continued Pressure from Intelligence Ministry...
and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell! 

 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.





Center for Human Rights Iran - July 8, 2024
<<Death Sentence for Female Labor Activist Highlights Lethal Repression in Iran
Mother of 12-Year-Old Was Tortured and Held Incommunicado in Solitary
Credible and Corroborated Evidence of Fabricated Charges
July 8, 2024 - The death sentence issued by the Iranian judiciary on the basis of sham charges against Sharifeh Mohammadi, a female industrial engineer and independent labor activist, underscores the intensifying state repression in Iran that is both lethal and unlawful. Mohammadi received the death sentence on the basis of alleged associations with organizations in which she is not even a member, she said. <Another woman has been sentenced to death just as Iran's new president was voted in, indicating that the Islamic Republic has no intention of pausing its state-sanctioned killing machine, which continues to be used to punish and silence peaceful dissent,> said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).
<Sharifeh's case highlights what Iran's labor activists and indeed any independent member of civil society have been facing for decades: lethal repression for demanding basic rights,> Ghaemi said.
CHRI calls on the international community to demand that the Iranian authorities:
Immediately dismiss the death sentence against Sharifeh Mohammadi;
Cease issuing and applying all death sentences, given the systematic violations of basic rights and due process that is routine in Islamic Republic capital punishment cases; Adhere to their obligations under Iranian and international law to respect peaceful dissent and independent labor activism.
On July 4, 2024, Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Rasht, presided over by Judge Ahmad Darvish Goftar, issued a death sentence against Mohammadi, a 45-year-old industrial design engineer and married mother of a 12-year-old son. She had been arrested by agents of the Ministry of the Intelligence in December 2023 and held incommunicado for months, with her family being denied any information about her status or location. The lower court ruling is expected to be appealed by Mohammadi's lawyer. Mohammadi's aunt, Vida Mohammadi, told RFE/RL's Radio Farda that Sharifeh Mohammadi had been tortured in prison following her arrest on December 5, 2023, and that she had spent several months in solitary confinement. The Ministry of Intelligence, which is under the authority of Iran's president, along with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) intelligence organization, which reports directly to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, both have a long and documented history of collaborating with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Court system to use national security-related charges to punish and suppress peaceful dissent. Mohammadi's husband, Siros Fathi, was also arrested by the agents of the Ministry of Intelligence, on June 11, 2024, after requesting information about his wife's case. He was released on bail later that month.
Labor Organization Confirms Mohammadi Is Not Even a Member
The court stated that Mohammadi had been convicted of <armed rebellion against the state.> Evidence presented included her alleged membership in the national Labor Unions Assistance Coordination Committee (LUACC), which operates legally in Iran, and her alleged membership in the banned Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan. Mohammadi and her family have vehemently denied her membership in either organization, noting she was never a member of Komala, and has not been a member of LUACC for the past 10 years. <If membership in the LUACC is an act of rebellion, come and arrest us too, because we were once members of the committee as well,> said Mahmoud Salehi, a former board member of the LUACC, in a post on Instagram on June 28, in which he strongly refuted the charges against Mohammadi. The Labor Unions Assistance Coordination Committee (LUACC) was established by a group of well-known labor activists in the early 2000s in Iran. Its primary goals included empowering workers by helping them to organize, raising awareness about labor laws and abolishing child labor. The <Campaign for the Defense of Sharifeh Mohammadi> described the LUACC as legal but said that, in any case, she had not been a member for 10 years. The campaign called the court verdict against her <medieval and criminal.> <Many believe that this ridiculous and baseless verdict was issued solely to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation among Gilan [Province] activists,> the group said. The Islamic Republic's violent repression has been particularly pronounced-and deadly-in regions of Iran in which minorities predominate. Iran is a member of the International Labor Organization, whose Fundamental Principles guarantees the right to independently organize, collectively bargain, and strike. The country is also a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which mandates in Articles 21 and 22 freedom of association and guarantees the right to form trade unions, and to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which guarantees in Article 8 the right of workers to form or join trade unions and protects their right to strike. Yet peaceful labor rights advocacy is treated as a national security offense, independent labor unions are not recognized, strikers are often fired and risk arrest, and labor leaders are prosecuted under catchall national security charges and sentenced to long prison terms. The sentence against Mohammadi comes on the heels of three months of escalating state repression against labor rights activists whose demands have largely focused on demanding unpaid or livable wages. During this period, activists have been summoned to court and charged with national security-related offenses. Additionally, those on medical furlough have been forced to return to prison without receiving proper treatment. <Sharifeh is the latest victim of the Islamic Republic of Iran's well-oiled system of repression,> said Ghaemi. <The Intelligence Ministry, IRGC, and judicial system each play a dedicated and coordinated role in stamping out any form of peaceful dissent, whether real or imagined, under the guise of corrupt judicial process.> >>
Source:
https://iranhumanrights.org/2024/07/death-sentence-for-female-labor-activist-highlights-lethal-repression-in-iran/


Sharifeh Mohammadi
Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 4 July 2024
<<Rasht: Labor activist, Sharifeh Mohammadi, sentenced to death for <rebellion>
Sharifeh Mohammadi, a labor activist detained seven months ago, is currently imprisoned in the women's ward of Rasht's Lakan Prison (Rasht Central Prison). Recently, she has been sentenced to death by the Iranian Judiciary on charges of <rebellion>. According to the report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Sharifeh Mohammadi, a labor activist from Rasht, has recently been sentenced to death by the First Branch of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court in Rasht. This verdict was handed down by Judges Ahmed Darwish Goftar and Mehdi Raskhi. Mohammadi was charged with <rebellion for to her involvement with the Coordination Committee for the Formation of Labor Organizations and its alleged affiliation with the Komala Party>. The court's decision is based on Articles 211 and 287 of the Islamic Penal Code, ratified in 2013. According to documents obtained by Hengaw, Sharifeh Mohammadi's lawyer has been formally notified of the verdict. This ruling may be appealed to the Supreme Court of Iran within 20 days of the notification.
The documents also state, <The country's intelligence organization is the sole authority designated to identify gang members. All reports from the Intelligence Department of Gilan Province and the Intelligence Department of Kurdistan Province are included in the case file, identifying the accused as a member of the Komala Party and the Coordination Committee.> This underscores the lack of independence within the Iranian Judiciary and highlights the significant influence of security institutions over the judicial process.
It is important to note that the hearing for the charges against Sharifeh Mohammadi took place on Saturday, June 8, 2024, in the First Branch of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court in Rasht. According to a previous report by Hengaw, Sharifeh Mohammadi, a Gilak woman from Rasht, endured mental and physical torture at the hands of Iranian Intelligence interrogators in Sanandaj, who sought to extract a forced confession from her. On Tuesday, December 5, 2023, Sharifeh Mohammadi was forcibly arrested at her home in Rasht by Iranian Intelligence forces. Over the past seven months (212 days), she has been held in the central prisons of Sanandaj and Lakan in Rasht, as well as in detention centers operated by the Iranian intelligence service.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2024/07/article-13

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