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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.
Zendagi. Azadi revolution.
16 February 2023 | By Gino d'Artali
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When one hurts or kills a women
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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 - July 7, 2023
<<15-Year-Old Iranian Protester Tortured to Obtain Confessions
Iranian authorities have subjected a 15-year-old protester to torture in
order to extract confessions, a human rights organization reported on
July 7.
Arshak Qeisarbeigi was arrested on June 29 in Sarabeleh, a city in
western Ilam province, after participating in demonstrations, according
to Hengaw, a Norway-based group that monitors rights violations in
Iran's Kurdish regions. The group said the teenager endured a week of
torture at the Sarabeleh Intelligence Department's detention center
during which he was forced to sign a blank document. It had previously
been reported that Qeisarbeigi was arrested during anti-government
protests that swept the country last year and was later released on
bail. Children under the age 18 played a significant role in the unrest,
with numbers indicating that at least 70 of them were killed in the
security forces’ crackdown on the protest movement.>>
Read more here and especially what the top cleric Molavi Abdulhamid says
to that:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/118287-15-year-old-iranian-protester-tortured-to-obtain-confessions/
Iranwire - July 7, 2023
<<Iran’s Top Sunni Cleric Speaks Out against Coerced Confessions
The outspoken Sunni Friday prayer leader of the south-eastern Iranian
city of Zahedan used his July 7 sermon to denounce the common practice
by Iranian authorities of using physical coercion to extract confessions
from prisoners. <No one possesses the right to subject prisoners to
torture and physical abuse,> said Molavi Abdulhamid, Iran's most
prominent Sunni cleric, ahead of weekly protests in which hundreds of
protesters took to the streets of the restive city. <Sharia law
unequivocally condemns the act of obtaining confessions through
coercion,> Molavi said, adding, <No governing body has the authority to
accept a forced confession as legitimate.> Iranian authorities have
consistently used incommunicado detention, prolonged solitary
confinement, torture and other ill-treatment in order to extract forced
<confessions> from prisoners. Molavi also called for members of the
security and military forces to be held accountable for the killing and
injuring of peaceful protesters and sexual assaults against women
demonstrators. Describing the laws and policies of the Islamic Republic
as <problematic,> the 75-year-old cleric reiterated his call for
fundamental reforms in the country. <If the laws passed by parliament do
not yield results, they should be amended. Laws are created by humans,
and humans are prone to making mistakes,> he said. After Molavi's
sermon, Zahedan residents took to the streets for the 40th consecutive
Friday to voice anger against the Islamic Republic, amid internet
disruptions and heavy security presence. The demonstrators chanted
slogans such as <We swear by the blood of our comrades, we will stand
until the end,> and held placards calling for the release of popular
rapper Toomaj Salehi and other political prisoners. Meanwhile, internet
monitor NetBlocks reported that internet connectivity was <disrupted> in
Zahedan, adding that <the incident continues the cycle of internet
shutdowns seeking to silence public dissent.> >>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/118285-irans-top-sunni-cleric-speaks-out-against-coerced-confessions/
Iranwire - July 7, 2023 - by VENUS OMIDVAR
<<Unemployment Pushes Educated Iranians to Big Cities
As Iran is grappling with a dire economic situation, with an increasing
number of businesses closing down amid soaring inflation and the
weakening of the national currency, many educated Iranians are
relocating to bigger cities to find better earning opportunities. Seyed
Ali is among the hundreds of those who have migrated to Tehran in the
hope of finding a job. He wanders the highways and streets of the
capital city, carrying a piece of cardboard reading: <Brother! I’m
Iranian. I have been unemployed for 20 months, and my family thinks that
I have a modest job. Is there any other work left for me? Thank you so
much, my dear friends. Please keep the less fortunate in your prayers. I
can also do household jobs.> Many educated Iranians, like Seyed Ali,
resort to working as domestic helpers and street vendors because they
are unable to secure decent jobs. Despite government claims regarding
decreasing unemployment, the reality painted by official data tells a
different story. A report by the financial news website Eco Iran
compared the unemployment situation and job creation between 2021 and
2022. <The rate of unemployment in the urban areas of the country
increased in the winter of last year compared to the winter of 2021,
while during the same period of time unemployment in the villages
decreased,> the report said. However, this decrease is not indicative of
job creation in the rural areas, but it is rather a result of
individuals leaving the rural labor market. According to the report, the
average unemployment rate in Iran stands at 40 percent among individuals
above the age of 15. Many rural residents decide to leave their homes
and families behind and move to big cities for various reasons,
including consecutive years of drought and challenges associated with
agriculture.
Tehran is the preferred destination for those seeking employment
opportunities.
With a university degree in his pocket, Nader left his village near the
western city of Kermanshah to settle in the capital, where he works as a
house cleaner. After completing his studies and mandatory military
service, Nader returned to his village in the hope of establishing an
internet-based selling business, but slow internet connection and other
obstacles hindered his efforts.
....
Iranian women also face increasing difficulties in finding jobs.
Mona holds a master's degree in psychology, but she has been unable to
find employment in her hometown of Lahijan, near the Caspian Sea. For
the past three years, she has been working as a marketer of health and
cosmetic products in Tehran. To make ends meet, this young woman shares
an apartment with three of her friends in a central neighborhood. <Given
my income and expenses, achieving financial independence feels
impossible to achieve,> says Mona.>>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/features/118279-unemployment-pushes-educated-iranians-to-big-cities/
Iranwire - July 7, 2023 - by FARAMARZ DAVAR
<<Attempts to Derail Human Rights Council Session on Iran
223 days after the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) passed a resolution on
November 24, 2022, to establish a fact-finding mission to investigate
human rights violations in Iran, the council heard the mission's first
oral update. The HRC and representatives of member states reviewed and
commented on the report on July 5, with the Islamic Republic and its
allies trying to disrupt the proceedings eight times. In her statement,
Sara Hossain, chair of the Independent International Fact-Finding
Mission (FMM) on the Islamic Republic of Iran told the HRC,
representatives of member countries and human rights organizations that
widespread violations of human rights continue to be perpetrated in the
country. Hossain pointed out that seven men have been executed in
connection with last year's nationwide protests <following hasty
proceedings marred by serious allegations of fair trial violations,
including confessions extracted under torture.> She also warned that
reports continue to emerge of arrests and detentions of protesters,
<including women and girls refusing to comply with the country's forced
veiling laws.> <The FFM is seriously concerned at the reports, just two
months after the protests started, of a series of alleged poisonings in
dozens of [girls'] schools in 28 provinces, affecting directly and
indirectly, the human rights of thousands of girls, including their
right to access education,> the Bangladeshi lawyer added. <Reports that
these may have been orchestrated as a means to punish girls for, or to
deter them from involvement in the protests, are being duly investigated
in the framework of our mandate.>
Iranian Representative Throws A Fit when Hearing Criticism
After the oral update by the FFM, Kazem Gharibabadi, the secretary of
the Iranian judiciary's High Council for Human Rights who was once the
Islamic Republic's permanent representative to the HRC, delivered an
angry speech in which he rejected the establishment of the mission as
<politically-motivated and unacceptable.> He then admonished the HRC for
failing to investigate the riots in France that followed the shooting of
a 17-year-old teenager by police. Of course, he ignored the fact that,
unlike in Iran, police in France are not shooting protesters with
battlefield guns. After claiming that the <riots> in Iran were
instigated by think tanks in the West and were stirred up by foreign
intelligence services and a <television network> outside the country, he
angrily left the meeting and passed his baton to another representative
of the Islamic Republic who, throughout the rest of session, tried to
disrupt the meeting by raising objections. After the angry remarks by
Gharibabadi, representatives of the council's 47 member states and
non-governmental human rights organizations were each given 90 seconds
to deliver comments. The representative of the Islamic Republic
interrupted these speeches at least five times to object to the use of
the word <regime> when referring to the Iranian government, calling it
<disrespectful.> Venezuela, Russia and Zimbabwe also raised objections
in support of the Islamic Republic. The chair of the meeting pointed out
that the term <regime> was used during previous HRC meetings and told
the Iranian representative he would no longer be allowed to disrupt the
session. Nevertheless, the official interrupted speeches by member
states in at least two instances, including when a representative of
Ukraine criticized the Iranian government for sending armaments to
Russia for use against Ukrainian civilians. This speech was also
interrupted by the Russian representative. As a result of these
interruptions by Iran and its backers, the session went overtime by half
an hour.
The Majority Stood Against the Islamic Republic
The speakers in the HRC meeting fell into two groups: a majority that
supported the FFM and spoke against violations of human rights in Iran,
and a minority that supported the Islamic Republic's bloody crackdown on
protesters. Finland, Ukraine, Spain, the United States, Britain, France,
Israel, Iceland, Romania, Belgium, Albania, North Macedonia, Austria,
Irelan, Malta, Australia and Luxembourg expressed extreme concern at the
violations of human rights in Iran, the execution of protesters, the
sexual assault of prisoners and detainees, arbitrary arrests, and, of
course, the poisoning of schoolgirls. Meanwhile, representatives of
North Korea, Russia, China, Cuba, Syria, Venezuela, Laos, Belarus,
Nicaragua and Zimbabwe supported the Islamic Republic, calling the
events in Iran an <internal> matter. The Islamic Republic tried to
increase the number of its supporters by bringing representatives of two
pseudo-NGOs to the meeting. One of them blamed the sanctions imposed on
Iran for being responsible for the widespread protests, while the other
organization emphasized the Islamic Republic's commitment to human
rights. This session ended after speeches by Shaheen Sardar Ali of
Pakistan and Viona Kristovich of Argentina. Both speakers called on the
Islamic Republic to cancel the death sentences handed down in connection
with the protests. FMM members asked the Islamic Republic to respect its
commitments to human rights and to cooperate with the mission's mandate.
As of now, the Islamic Republic has ruled out any cooperation with the
fact-finding mission. The FFM is scheduled to present a comprehensive
report on its findings to the Human Rights Council in March 2024, but it
might not be its final report since the Islamic Republic continues to
flagrantly violate human rights.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/politics/118272-attempts-to-derail-human-rights-council-session-on-iran/
JINHA - Women's news - in The Fallen for Freedom - July 6, 2023
<<Remembering Ozra Alavi Taleghani: A Prominent Revolutionary Figure in
Contemporary Iran
A Tribute to the Life and Legacy of Ozra Alavi Taleghani, a Courageous
Leader in the Historical Struggle for Iranian Women's Emancipation
Ozra Alavi Taleghani, one of the most prominent revolutionary women in
contemporary Iran, passed away on Thursday, July 6, 2023, in Ashraf 3,
Albania, after battling an illness. Born in Tehran in 1954, Ozra Alavi
Taleghani was the daughter of Mr. Noureddin Alavi Taleghani, a
progressive clergyman who faced multiple imprisonments during the reign
of the Shah due to his support and promotion of the People's Mojahedin
Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). She was a relative of Father Mahmoud
Taleghani, a progressive Islamic scholar and thinker known for
advocating democracy and being a leading figure in the anti-Shah
movement. During her years as a student studying chemical engineering at
the Sharif University of Technology, Ozra Alavi Taleghani became a
supporter of the PMOI/MEK. Joining the organization in 1976, she
dedicated herself to a relentless struggle against both the Shah's
dictatorship and the subsequent clerical regime for a span of 47 years.
Ozra Alavi Taleghani, also known as Sussan, played a significant role as
one of the leading women in the fight against the Shah's regime,
particularly as a leader in the student movement. She was also among the
candidates nominated by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran for
the first post-revolution parliamentary elections that followed the
overthrow of the Shah's regime in 1979. In 1985, Ms. Taleghani became a
member of the Central Committee of the People's Mojahedin Organization
of Iran and later joined the National Council of Resistance of Iran in
1992. She served as one of the commanders of women's combat brigades
within the National Liberation Army in 1987, overseeing significant
operations codenamed the Shining Sun, the Forty Stars, and the Eternal
Light. Ms. Taleghani held a senior position in the PMOI Leadership
Council since 1993, which later expanded to become the PMOI Central
Council. From 1993 to 1997, she served as the Deputy Commander in Chief
of the National Liberation Army. Following the invasion and occupation
of Iraq in 2003, she was a member of the NLA's command staff, leading
the organization through complex circumstances for 14 years. In addition
to her significant contributions to the resistance movement, Ms.
Taleghani battled with great courage against her illness, which had
worsened in the last two weeks. The President-elect of the National
Council of Resistance of Iran, Maryam Rajavi, expressed her condolences
to the members of the PMOI and the National Council of Resistance of
Iran, acknowledging the tragic loss of <one of the most remarkable
symbols of Iranian women's historical struggle for emancipation.> >>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/07/06/ozra-alavi-taleghani/
<<Iranwire - July 6, 2023
<< <Digital Repression:> Group Warns of Further Tightening of the Net in
Iran
The London-based ARTICLE 19 media freedom organization warns that
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei's recent call to further tighten
internet restrictions represents a <renewed attack> on rights and
freedoms, and signals a <new phase in digital repression> in Iran.
Addressing judicial officials during a meeting on June 27 amid what
ARTICLE 19 described as an <already alarming deterioration of online
spaces,> Khamenei called on the judiciary to purge dissenting voices
from the internet. He argued that the Islamic Republic's constitution
puts the judiciary in charge of <preserving public rights,> which he
claimed includes preserving the <psychological security of the society.>
The 83-year-old leader reprimanded the judiciary for its lack of
<planning and discipline> in handling crimes related to undermining
public rights and demanded this <legal void> to be immediately
addressed. <This marks a particularly significant turn for an already
heavily controlled and restricted internet policy in the Islamic
Republic, as the Supreme Leader is the ultimate arbiter of the direction
of policy and repression,> ARTICLE 19 said in a statement on July 6.
....
As part of their efforts to control the uprising, the authorities have
curbed internet speed, clamped down on censorship circumvention tools
and rolled out schemes that provide regime supporters with increased
access to the internet. Highlighting that online rights and other
fundamental freedoms <go hand in hand,> ARTICLE 19 urged the
international community to <consider these developments in any
interactions with Iranian authorities,> and called on Iranian state
institutions to <align their policies with international standards of
human rights, and particularly freedom of expression online.> The group
also said that technology companies must <consider the exacerbating
dangers to people who use their services - both when accessing these
services as well as when they are persecuted for using their services
under these aggressive moves against freedoms online.> >>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/118237-digital-repression-group-warns-of-further-tightening-of-the-net-in-iran/
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