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
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Iranwire - 8 Dec 2023
<<Iranian Old Man's Instagram Page Blocked Over <Criminal> Dancing Clip
The authorities in Iran have taken down the Instagram page of a pensioner after a video clip of him dancing on the street in the northern city of Rasht had gone viral. Police deleted all the posts on his page and posted a message reading, <This page was blocked due to the publication of criminal content.> His Instagram page had 128,000 followers. Hossein Hosseinpour, the deputy police chief of Gilan province, said on December 5 that <12 Instagram page managers> were arrested after <the publication of images of dancing on public roads and in the Rasht market.> The footage was <shared on social media and satellite networks,> Hosseinpour said, adding that the clips were removed from nine accounts. This is not the first time the Islamic Republic's institutions have targeted social media users for posting images of people dancing and having fun.>>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/123316-iranian-old-mans-instagram-page-blocked-over-criminal-dancing-clip/


6 Baha'i women released
Jinha - Womens News Agency 8 Dec 2023
<<Iran releases six Baha'i women on bail
News Center- Six Baha'i women in Hamadan, city of Iran, were released from prison on bail on Thursday, according to local reports. The names of the women released on bail are: Zarin Dokht Ahadzadeh, Atefeh Zahedi, Nora Ayoubi, Farideh Ayoubi, Neda Mohebi, and Jaleh Rezaee. The women were arrested on November 7, 2023 in the city of Hamadan and transferred to the Intelligence Bureau in Hamedan without any clear information from Iranian authorities about their exact whereabouts or the charges against them.>>
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https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/iran-releases-six-baha-i-women-on-bail-34269

Iranwire - 8 Dec 2023
<<Three Baha'is in Northern Iran Sentenced for Teaching Kindergarten
Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in Sari, northern Iran, has sentenced three Baha'i citizens to prison, fines, and bans on educational activities for establishing a kindergarten that used the Montessori educational method. The court's ruling labeled the Montessori method as an instrument of Baha'i indoctrination. According to the court's verdict, Saha Sabeti received the harshest sentence, with 33 months in prison, a 13-year ban on working in education and a fine of 37.5 million tomans ($750). Her husband Behrouz Rahmani and their colleague Sanaz Alizadeh were each sentenced to 10-year bans on working in education and fines of 25 million tomans ($500). The ruling reflects escalating patterns of suppression and discrimination against the Baha'i community in Iran. The Montessori method, developed by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori in the early 20th century, is a renowned approach to early childhood education that emphasizes hands-on learning and self-directed exploration.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/bahais-of-iran/123304-three-bahais-in-northern-iran-sentenced-for-teaching-kindergarten/

Iranwire - 8 Dec 2023
<<Husband of Victim of Iran Protest Crackdown Acquitted of One Charge
The husband of Shirin Alizadeh, a victim of the bloody crackdown on last year's Woman, Life, Freedom protests, has been acquitted of the charge of spreading <falsehoods.> On November 25, Branch 119 of Isfahan Criminal Court cleared Mohammad Vaziri of the accusation of <publishing falsehoods with the intention of disturbing public order.> Earlier, Vaziri was sentenced to two months in prison by the First Branch of the Isfahan Revolutionary Court on charges of <collaboration with hostile countries and propaganda activities against the system.>
The sentence was suspended for one year.
Vaziri was arrested in Isfahan on August 17 and transferred to the city’s Dastgerd Prison. He was released on bail on September 11. His wife, Shirin Alizadeh, was shot by a member of the paramilitary Basij force in the city of Tonekabon last year while driving in a car with their seven-year-old son.
She was reportedly filming clashes between protesters and security forces. After the killing, the security forces also arrested her sister, Nasrin Alizadeh.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/123305-husband-of-victim-of-iran-protest-crackdown-acquitted-of-one-charge/


Students day in Iran
NCRI - Womens committee - 7 Dec 2023 - in Podcast - in Women's News
<<On Students Day in Iran, Honoring Young Iranian Women
Welcome to this edition of the NCRI Women's Committee podcast. Every year, December 7 marks the Students Day in Iran.
On December 7, 1953, three students were killed by military forces on the campus of Tehran University's College of Engineering. Since then, this day has been known as Students’ Day in Iran, honoring the struggles of Iranian university students. Iranian universities have long served as hubs of knowledge. Alongside knowledge, there emerges a deep longing for freedom. Consequently, many leaders of opposition movements in Iran have risen from universities, drawing from the most informed sectors of Iranian intellectuals. During the Shah's dictatorship in Iran, freedom-seeking students organized protests, birthing leading opposition groups within Iranian universities. Despite severe crackdowns under the mullahs' regime, these institutions persist as centers of protest, often leading to widespread arrests and imprisonment of students.
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The 2022 uprising in Iran witnessed an unprecedented level of student participation, spanning over 100 universities across the country. This surge of engagement caused significant concern for the clerical regime. In response, the regime resorted once again to military force on campuses, exacting a heavy toll on Iranian students who bravely stood up to demand their rights and freedoms. On the occasion of Students Day in Iran, we explore the pivotal role of female students within universities and their involvement in the 2022-2023 uprising in Iran.
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Iranian universities played a pivotal role in the nationwide protests that unfolded in the final three months of 2022 and continued into the first quarter of 2023. Throughout this uprising, young women took the lead in university protests and were actively engaged beyond campus boundaries.
What's striking is the persistent activism despite the heavy crackdown by security forces. Notably, there was scarcely a day of silence within the universities. Each day brought forth new acts of defiance, fresh protests, and innovative slogans that ignited the entire nation. In attempts to suppress student protests, plainclothes agents resorted to opening fire on students, even within university premises. Furthermore, they conducted abductions from dormitories without legal warrants, often in the late hours of the night or early morning as students were leaving the premises.
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On this Students Day in Iran, it's fitting to remember dozens of young women who paid the ultimate price during the 2022 protests.
Let's remember Donya Farhadi, a 22-year-old student of Architecture at Azad University of Ahvaz, in the southwest Khuzestan province. Donya had been missing since December 7 after she had an argument with Basij militia members on the campus that day. Her body was found on the 15th of December on the banks of Karun River in Ahvaz. Her chest had been pierced by three bullets. However, the regime initially claimed that she had jumped down from the Karun bridge and committed suicide. We also had the case of Nasrin Qaderi from Marivan, Kurdistan. She was 38 years old and a student of Ph.D. in philosophy. Security forces hit her on the head during a protest in Tehran on the 4th of November. She slipped into a coma and died the next day in a hospital. Again, the state media claimed that she had died due to a chronic disease. There was also Negin Abdolmaleki who was only 21. She came from Qorveh, Kurdistan, but studied medical engineering at the Industrial University of Hamedan. She was repeatedly hit on the head by batons during a protest on October 11 in the city. She was severely injured. When she returned to the dormitory, she died due to severe bleeding. The authorities claimed that she had been intoxicated by expired canned fish!! Let us also remember Behnaz Afshari, a 23-year-old woman from Pakdasht, in Tehran Province. She left home on the 26th of October to participate in protests in Tehran but never returned home. Her body was found after five days in forensics medicine.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/12/06/on-students-day-in-iran/

Iranwire - 7 Dec 2023 - by SHOHREH MEHRNAMI
<<Two Decades of Pressure Against Azeri Activist in Iran
The relentless pressure on Iranian civil society by the security and judicial institutions continues unabated across the country.
Azeri activists in West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan, Ardabil, and Zanjan are being subjected to heightened harassment by security agents in the provinces of West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan, Ardabil and Zanjan. While some of those detained in recent weeks have been released, Azeri activists continue to be arrested and prosecuted. On November 24, government agents sent Saleh Molaabbasi, a prominent civil activist from Ahar, in East Azerbaijan province, to prison. His daughter, Pinar, told IranWire that the officers scaled the wall of the activist's home at 8:00 a.m. to arrest him.
A few hours later, she was informed that he had been transferred to Ahar Prison to serve a 91-day sentence. This civil activist was charged with <disseminating false information to disturb public order and engaging in propaganda against the system> over his Instagram posts. In the past two decades, Molaabbasi was repeatedly imprisoned for his unwavering advocacy for social and political change in the country. He was taken into custody during last year's nationwide protests before being temporarily released from Tabriz prison after a 17-day hunger strike. During Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presidency (2005-2013), Molaabbasi was admitted to a masters in archaeology but was denied the opportunity to pursue his studies.
Intelligence officials shut down his billiards club and disrupted his family's carpet business in Ahar. They also threatened villagers not to rent him land to farm. Pinar Molaabbasi also disclosed that agents of the Islamic Republic threatened to expel her sister from university.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/123284-two-decades-of-pressure-against-azeri-activist-in-iran/

Iranwire - 7 Dec 2023 - by TARA ORAMI
<<Kolbar Killed by Iran Border Forces Laid to Rest
As the noon sun-beat down on the cemetery of Mirdeh, a village in Iran's Kurdistan province, mourners gathered to pay their respects to Ahoan Dashti, a 28-year-old transborder porter, or kolbar, who was shot dead by border forces. When the ambulance carrying Dashti's body arrived from the city of Baneh, the anguished cries of Dashti's father, Atta, echoed through the cemetery, while his mother and sisters' sobs tugged at the strings of the mourners' heart. The sorrowful procession carried the casket to Dashti's final resting place, accompanied by the murmurs of the mourners who had come from the surrounding villages and the districts of Saqqez and Baneh. Activists say Dashti was shot without warning near the Hengezhal border crossing earlier on December 5, in yet another unlawful shooting of an unarmed Kurdish kulbar who worked under cruel and inhumane conditions to make a living. His father operated a brick-making workshop in Mirdeh, with his son lending him a helping hand, but a year ago, the rising cost of materials forced the family to close the business and migrate to Baneh. The father took up day labor jobs, while his son became a kolbar to provide for his family. <The goods we were carrying were considered contraband by the Islamic Republic and border guards, which prevented us from using the designated routes,> a friend of the young man recounts. <Instead, we ventured through untamed paths, a decision that proved fatal.> Despite his small stature, Dashti was known for his speed and agility in carrying heavy loads. His jovial nature and the camera he always carried around his neck made him the group's de facto guide. On the fateful day of Dashti's demise, he and his companions were ambushed before dawn. The barbed wire entanglements laid by border guards across the path hindered their escape from border guards. Dashti's story is a stark reminder of the plight of countless kolbars who risk their lives hauling goods on their backs across the borders of Iran and over long distances, mostly in the impoverished, mountainous Kurdish areas adjacent to Iraq. The Iranian authorities label kolbars as <smugglers,> but human rights organizations maintain that their activity is a form of survival for many men living in impoverished border regions where economic opportunities are scarce. The government tries to regulate smuggling by creating designated routes for kolbar. Only villagers living within a 20-kilometer radius of the recently opened Hengezhal crossing are authorized to transport goods through the border point. The other kolbars are forced to navigate dangerous paths. From 2012 to the end of 2021, at least 547 kolbars died and more than 1,601 were injured in Kermanshah, West Azerbaijan and Kurdistan provinces, according to the Kolbar News website.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/features/123281-kolbar-killed-by-iran-border-forces-laid-to-rest/
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Iranwire - 7 Dec 2023
<<Two Iranian Protesters Still Behind Bars After Being Granted Bail
Iranian human rights activists have denounced the continued imprisonment of two men arrested during last year's nationwide protests despite being granted bail. The pair are among eight jailed defendants in the so-called Ekbatan case who are being held in Karaj's Qezelhesar prison, near Tehran.
The eight accused include Milad Armon, Alireza Kafaei, Amir Mohammad Khosh Iqbal, Alireza Bermarz Pournak, Seyyed Mohammad Mehdi Hosseini, Hossein Nemati, Mehdi Imani and Navid Najaran. <Branch 13 of the Criminal Court of Tehran province approved the temporary release on bail of two of these individuals,> a source told the HRANA human rights website. However, Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, headed by the notorious Judge Abolqasem Salavati, opposed the move and personally requested to handle the case, the source said. The eight defendants are among more than 50 young people living in Tehran's Ekbatan Town who were arrested in November 2022 following the death of a member of the paramilitary Basij force.
Indictments were issued for 14 of those arrested.
In May of this year, the judiciary announced that three of them faced charges of <waging war against God through the use of cold weapons and actions against national security.> The charge can carry a death sentence. The monthslong protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death in police custody in September 2022 were brutally put down by Iranian security forces. More than 500 people were killed in the repression and over 20,000 were unlawfully detained. Following biased trials, the judiciary has handed down stiff sentences, including the death penalty, to protesters. At least eight of them have been executed so far.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/123277-two-iranian-protesters-still-behind-bars-after-being-granted-bail/

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