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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: June wk3P2 --  June wk3 -- June wk2 part3 -- June wk2 part2 -- June wk2 -- June wk1 part2 -- June wk1 -- May wk5 part2 --  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 June 21, 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

 

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

 

 

April 30, 2024
Atena Farghadani - Target on her back

 
Click here for more stories of Heroines of Iran 

April 20, 2024
Suma Pour-Mohammadi sentenced to 11 years in prison


  
February 22, 2024 - RED ALERT
Leaked Documents Give Glimpse of Repression in Iran
 

Please do read the following articles with mostly very 'Inspiring Stories' - click on the underlined topics -
Updates
June 19, 2024: 4 decades of resistance for freedom

June 15, 2024: Employment of women Part2
 June 13, 2024: Employment of Women

and 
Click here for previous inspiring stories and  articles incl. Red Alerts

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

Update on this page:
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

June 18 - 15, 2024
<<Left Behind - Swedish Prisoner's Family Speaks Out After Swap...
and <<Tehran University Students Quit Islamic Association Over Election Rally...
and <<Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Narges Mohammadi Sentenced to Prison again for <Propaganda Against the State>...
and <<Forced to flee: Exiled journalists face unsafe passage and transnational repression...
and <<Isfahan: Sister of Mahmoud Mehrabi, a political prisoner sentenced to death, arrested along with her two young children...
and <<Kurdish Political Detainee Remains in Detention Despite Doctor's Release Recommendation...
and <<Political Prisoners in Evin Prison: Nasim Gholami Simiyari and Others Detained Without Trial...
and <<Arrest of Two Baloch Individuals in Kerman Following the Death of the Iranian President...
and <<Death of a Baloch Detainee Under Torture in the Drug Control Headquarters Detention Center...
and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell! 

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.



4 decades of resistance for freedom
Center for Human Rights in Iran - 19 June 2024
<<4 decades of resistance for freedom by Generation Equality in Iran
Never before in history, had a dictator launched a genocide by releasing the photos of unidentified young women he executed.
June 20 marks the beginning of the Iranian people’s resistance for freedom and democracy in 1981. Iran’s women pioneer their people's movement against the mullahs' religious dictatorship.
Generation Equality has been playing a significant role in the Iranian people's resistance for freedom from the Shah's time until today. Women who sacrificed their lives for freedom in the 1970s opened the way for women's largescale participation in the movement. Then came another generation of women in the 1980s whose sacrifices and unsubmissive struggle shook the foundations of the mullahs' misogynous regime. And then, the world saw the next generations of brave Iranian women and girls who pursued this tortuous and blood-drenched path during the uprisings in 1999, 2009, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023. Generation equality will continue to thread this path until the overthrow of the mullahs' misogynous regime and the dawn of genuine freedom in Iran. So, let us commemorate on this anniversary the tens of thousands of women who watered the sapling of freedom with their blood and persisted in their democratic demands since the beginning of the mullahs' rule in Iran. They chose to resist at any cost honorably but not succumb to the dictator and turned into shining stars who lit the dark night of their nation.
Women's largescale participation in resistance for freedom
Less than a month after the Iranian people's overthrow of the Shah's dictatorship, women were the first to hear the footsteps of another tyrannical regime. Khomeini's first fatwa on March 7, 1979, targeted Iranian women's freedoms. By this order, it became mandatory for women to cover their hair and wear the veil in government offices. Iranian women took to the streets the next day which coincided with International Women's Day, March 8, 1979, to protest the oppressive fatwa against women in a massive demonstration. Hassan Rouhani, the regime's incumbent president, has boasted that he was the one to ban the entry of non-veiled women to the offices and departments of the Armed Forces. For 2.5 years before June 20, 1981, women and girls joined opposition groups, particularly the PMOI/MEK, and actively participated in resistance for freedom and efforts to stop the tyrannical advances of the new regime. Dozens of schoolgirls who supported the PMOI/MEK opposition were killed and wounded in attacks by the regime’s agents and club wielders during this period. Nasrin Rostami, 16, in Shiraz, Mehri Saremi in Khorram Abad, Sima Sabbagh in Rasht, Sanam Ghoreishi in Bandar Abbas, Fatemeh Rahimi and Somayeh Noghre-Khaja in Ghaemshahr, and Fatemeh Karimi in Karaj were among many who did not succumb to the club wielders' threats at the cost of their lives.
Fatemeh Karimi in Karaj were among many who did not succumb to the club wielders’ threats at the cost of their lives

Somayyeh Noghre-Khaja and Fatemeh Rahimi in Gha’emshahr, Fatemeh Karimi in Karaj, and Sanam Ghoreishi in Banda
From left, Somayyeh Noghre-Khaja and Fatemeh Rahimi in Gha’emshahr, Fatemeh Karimi in Karaj, and Sanam Ghoreishi in Bandar Abbas were killed in the streets before June 20, 1981.
On April 27, 1981, the Muslim Mothers' Society which supported the opposition PMOI/MEK staged a demonstration in protest of the beating and killing of their children. 200,000 women participated in this protest rally. Their strong presence caught the mullahs by surprise and had a tremendous impact on developments in that critical period of Iran's history.
The Iranian people’s resistance for freedom reached a turning point on June 20, 1981

Demonstration by Muslim Mothers' Society
Tehran, April 27, 1981 - Demonstration by Muslim Mothers' Society
The Iranian people's resistance for freedom reached a turning point on June 20, 1981, when half a million Tehran residents participated in a historic march for freedom. On that day, Khomeini's revolutionary guards opened fire on the peaceful demonstrators. Iran’s pioneering women, too, had to make a choice. They had to choose between the shame of caving into the mullahs' suppression and the honor of resistance for freedom. Of course, they chose the latter and answered the call of history. After cracking down on the June 20th peaceful demonstration, the clerical regime began its massacre of opponents. Ironically, the first group of victims comprised of girl students, 16-17 years of age, who had not given even their names to the regime. Indeed, what was the message of these young women? Why was it that the first statement of the prosecutor's office after June 20, bore the pictures of 12 under-18 girls who had not even identified themselves to the regime officials before being executed? The first statement issued by the Public Prosecutor's Office bearing the photos of 12 teenage girls who had been executed without establishing their identities, was published in the state-run daily newspapers. Never in history, had a dictator launched a genocide by releasing the photos of unidentified young women he executed. The mullahs' murder machine started its endless and indiscriminate killings. Young teenage girls, pregnant women, elderly mothers, workers, farmers, doctors, engineers, artists, and athletes were killed en masse. Sometimes, all or five-six children of the same family were executed in the course of mass executions of the 1980s.
Women's rights were half of men's everywhere except in prisons where they had a double quota of torture merely for being a woman. The misogynist mullahs could not tolerate the women who opposed them. The victims included Nafiseh Ashraf Jahani, 10, who was put on summary trial and sent before the firing squads. Maryam Assadi, 11, Afsaneh Farabi, 12, and 13-year-olds Fatemeh Mesbah, Shahla Ghorbani, Fatemeh Sajedi, and Fatemeh Jabbarzadeh Ansari, and Nassrin Nouri Mani, 15, were also among those executed in the 1980s.

Fatemeh Mesbah, 13, and Mother Zakeri, 70, were executed
Tahereh Aghakhan Moghaddam was executed while eight months pregnant. The names of at least 50 pregnant women are among those executed by the Iranian regime. Dozens of elderly women, like Sakineh Mohammadi Ardehali (Mother Zakeri), 70, stood up bravely to the mullahs and defeated their efforts to break them.

From left: Batool Alamzadeh Horjandi, Zohreh Bijanyar, and Massoumeh Azdanlou were pregnant at the time of execution
Women's inspiring resistance and their double quota under torture
Hundreds of former prisoners have attested that women's resistance in prisons and under torture was inspiring to the imprisoned men, as well. By their resistance, Iranian women dealt effective blows to the medieval outlook promoted by the clerical regime. So, the mullahs put women under tremendous pressure to break their high spirits. Long-term solitary confinement, Unit One, Cage, and the most brutal of these torture chambers, the residential unit where they sexually assaulted female prisoners, were designed to reach this aim. Iranian women, however, were deeply aware of their great role and historic mission and were thus able to endure such inhuman tortures, imprisonment, and executions. They were not just a few isolated examples but a generation of women who regardless of their age, education, profession, ethnicity, and economic class, chose the honor of resistance for freedom to defeat the enemy of their nation.
Various groups of women in resistance for freedom
Despite repressive conditions in Iran, secret executions, and all the dangers threatening those who have such information, the Iranian Resistance has been able to compile the names and information about 20,000 victims of execution.
Around 5,000 of those names belong to the women of PMOI/MEK.
The most general categorizations based on age, profession, and education attest to the reality of a Generation Equality born in Iran to determine the fate of their nation through their resistance for freedom.
Following are the categories:
681 women were killed under torture
50 women were executed while pregnant
789 teenagers were executed between 11 and 18 years of age
230 women had a high academic education
734 women had bachelor's degrees
4,010 women were high school graduates
381 women were government employees
73 women were artists
The number of victims of political executions by the clerical regime is estimated to be 120,000, one-third of whom are women. The said figures are therefore but a small and incomplete part of the whole picture. On the anniversary of the June 20th milestone in the history of Iran, we honor the memory of and pay tribute to heroines who fulfilled their responsibility towards their people, country, and history with utmost courage. Future generations will have a lot more to say about their role and values.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2024/06/19/resistance-for-freedom/
 
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