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The face of Iran's protests. Her life, her dreams
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16 February 2023 | By Gino d'Artali
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and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
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called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.
Iranwire - 26 Jan 2024
<< <No To Execution> Hunger-Strike Movement Spreads Across Iran
and Abroad
A sharp rise in executions in Iran has sparked a passionate call
from Iranian civil society to abolish the death penalty in Iran, with a
growing number of activists in and outside of the country announcing
plans to go on hunger strike to make their voices heard. The campaign
has grown since imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi
said she and dozens of other women inmates in Tehran's Evin prison would
launch a hunger strike on January 25, following this week's execution of
a young protester who was diagnosed with a mental condition. <The
incarcerated women stand resolute, determined to etch the names of the
executed into our collective consciousness,> according to a joint
statement posted on Mohammadi's Instagram account. <They strive not only
to preserve the memory of those lost but also to spare the countless
lives hanging in the balance within the prisons of the Islamic
Republic.> As the hashtag #NoToExecution was becoming increasingly
popular among Iranian social media users, 111 union and labor activists
issued a statement on January 25, announcing they were joining the
hunger strike to <express our dissent against the government's misguided
practices and pervasive injustices.> <Executions have claimed countless
innocent lives, an irreversible act that warrants no remedy,> said the
signatories, who also denounced <inhumane state-sanctioned violence> and
<the arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of free and proud individuals.>
Dozens of Iranian journalists, lawyers and prisoners, including jailed
artists Toomaj Salehi and Mehdi Yarrahi, said they would also join the
hunger strike. Foreign-based activists such as Masih Alinejad and Hadi
Ghaemi, executive director of the US-based Center for Human Rights in
Iran (CHRI), have also said they would join the protest action. <Despite
the risk of intensified persecution by the government, Iranian civil
society is boldly and unequivocally demanding the abolition of the death
penalty,> Ghaemi said in a statement. <Executions, a longstanding and
favored tool of the Islamic Republic to suppress dissent, have surged
since nationwide anti-state protests erupted in September 2022,> he
added. <Yet these state-sanctioned killings are proving ineffective at
muzzling calls for justice, and despite the risks, we witness a mounting
outcry from within Iran for an end to these hangings.> The execution of
Mohammad Ghobadlou on January 23 was widely condemned by activists and
rights groups who noted that the 23-year-old man suffered from bipolar
disorder and that the Supreme Court had struck down the initial death
sentence ruling. Following an unfair trial, Ghobadlou was sentenced to
death for allegedly killing a police officer during nationwide protests
in September 2022. He is the ninth person to be executed in connection
with the popular uprising. Amnesty International said Ghobadlou's
execution marked a <plunge into new realms of cruelty> by the country's
leadership. France's Foreign Ministry said it <adds to the many other
serious and unacceptable violations of fundamental rights and freedoms
committed by the Iranian authorities.> UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights Volker Turk expressed alarm over the <sharp spike> in the use of
the death penalty in Iran, and insisted that <the right to due process
and a fair trial for all defendants [in Iran] must be adhered to.>
Iranian human rights groups say the Islamic Republic executed more than
700 prisoners last year.
Human Rights Watch said at least 11 inmates in Iran are at
<imminent risk> of execution, most of whom are Kurdish.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/124714-no-to-execution-hunger-strike-movement-spreads-across-iran-and-abroad/
Iranwire -
26 Jan 2024
<<Iran's Top Sunni Cleric Criticizes Body Overseeing Elections
As Iran prepares for parliamentary polls, the country's most prominent
Sunni cleric has criticized the work of the Guardian Council, a
hard-line constitutional body that supervises elections and vets
candidates. Iranians will be called to polling stations on March 1 to
choose between candidates running for seats in the 290-seat parliament
and the 88-member Assembly of Experts, a chamber of theologians that
appoints the Islamic Republic's supreme leader. A low turnout is
expected, with the Guardian Council having already disqualified
thousands of candidates in both elections, including former President
Hassan Rouhani. Molavi Abdulhamid, the Sunni Friday prayer leader of the
southeastern city of Zahedan, said in his Friday sermon that the entire
electoral process has been placed in the hands of the council members,
who are directly and indirectly appointed by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Pointing to <many problems> in the Islamic Republic's constitution, the
outspoken cleric reiterated his call for constitutional changes. <This
legislation was ratified 44 years ago by the Assembly of Experts, and
the majority of its members have since passed away and are now in the
purgatory,> he said. <A new generation has come and this generation is
different from the previous one, but the constitution has not changed.>
Molavi drew attention to the mass disqualification of candidates,
emphasizing that <the vision of officials should not be restricted to
one religion, ethnicity and faction.> The Guardian Council was created
by Khamenei. It consists of six clerics appointed directly by him and an
additional six jurists who receive approval from members of parliament
based on a list given by the judiciary chief, himself appointed by the
Islamic Republic's leader. In previous elections, the council
disqualified about half of the candidates on spurious grounds. Turnout
in the last parliamentary election was about 42 percent, the lowest
since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and prospects for a higher
participation in March are dim.
Iranians appear apathetic about the vote, the first since
anti-establishment protests rocked Iran in 2022-2023.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/124722-irans-top-sunni-cleric-criticizes-body-overseeing-elections/
Opinion by G. d'A.: I fully agree so DO NOT VOTE and with it say
'Give way or go away'.
Iranwire - 26 Jan 2024
<<Tehran Student Handed Prison Term Amid Clampdown on Universities
The Revolutionary Court of Karaj has sentenced a Master's student in
economics at the University of Tehran to one year in prison for engaging
in propaganda against the Islamic Republic, as the authorities are
intensifying their efforts to control the universities' population which
has been at the forefront of the 2022 uprising. Parisa Salehi was also
handed a two-year travel ban and a two-year exile, along with a ban on
online activities. The student said that her and her family's homes had
been searched twice by agents of the Karaj Intelligence Department in
the past few months. The moves are seen as part of the authorities'
broader strategy to silence student protesters from the Women, Life,
Freedom movement and prevent further demonstrations in university
campuses. Students at Tehran's Al-Zahra University say security
officials are scrutinizing the work of art students, compiling a list of
names associated with creations <representing nudity and unconventional
subjects.> Since nationwide protests erupted in September 2022,
authorities have been clamping down on any sign of dissent at
universities with arrests, intrusive high-tech surveillance, the
dismantling of student organizations and purging of professors. Many
students have faced sentences such as imprisonment and flogging, while
others have been expelled from universities or suspended from their
studies.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/124712-tehran-student-handed-prison-term-amid-clampdown-on-universities/
Iranwire - 26 Jan 2024
<< <No To Execution> Hunger-Strike Movement Spreads Across Iran and
Abroad
A sharp rise in executions in Iran has sparked a passionate call from
Iranian civil society to abolish the death penalty in Iran, with a
growing number of activists in and outside of the country announcing
plans to go on hunger strike to make their voices heard. The campaign
has grown since imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi
said she and dozens of other women inmates in Tehran's Evin prison would
launch a hunger strike on January 25, following this week's execution of
a young protester who was diagnosed with a mental condition. <The
incarcerated women stand resolute, determined to etch the names of the
executed into our collective consciousness,> according to a joint
statement posted on Mohammadi's Instagram account. <They strive not only
to preserve the memory of those lost but also to spare the countless
lives hanging in the balance within the prisons of the Islamic
Republic.> As the hashtag #NoToExecution was becoming increasingly
popular among Iranian social media users, 111 union and labor activists
issued a statement on January 25, announcing they were joining the
hunger strike to <express our dissent against the government's misguided
practices and pervasive injustices.> <Executions have claimed countless
innocent lives, an irreversible act that warrants no remedy,> said the
signatories, who also denounced <inhumane state-sanctioned violence> and
<the arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of free and proud individuals.>
Dozens of Iranian journalists, lawyers and prisoners, including jailed
artists Toomaj Salehi and Mehdi Yarrahi, said they would also join the
hunger strike. Foreign-based activists such as Masih Alinejad and Hadi
Ghaemi, executive director of the US-based Center for Human Rights in
Iran (CHRI), have also said they would join the protest action. <Despite
the risk of intensified persecution by the government, Iranian civil
society is boldly and unequivocally demanding the abolition of the death
penalty,> Ghaemi said in a statement. <Executions, a longstanding and
favored tool of the Islamic Republic to suppress dissent, have surged
since nationwide anti-state protests erupted in September 2022,> he
added. <Yet these state-sanctioned killings are proving ineffective at
muzzling calls for justice, and despite the risks, we witness a mounting
outcry from within Iran for an end to these hangings.>
Mohammad Ghobadlou
The execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou on January 23 was widely condemned
by activists and rights groups who noted that the 23-year-old man
suffered from bipolar disorder and that the Supreme Court had struck
down the initial death sentence ruling. Following an unfair trial,
Ghobadlou was sentenced to death for allegedly killing a police officer
during nationwide protests in September 2022. He is the ninth person to
be executed in connection with the popular uprising. Amnesty
International said Ghobadlou's execution marked a <plunge into new
realms of cruelty> by the country's leadership. France's Foreign
Ministry said it <adds to the many other serious and unacceptable
violations of fundamental rights and freedoms committed by the Iranian
authorities.> UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk
expressed alarm over the <sharp spike> in the use of the death penalty
in Iran, and insisted that <the right to due process and a fair trial
for all defendants [in Iran] must be adhered to.>
Iranian human rights groups say the Islamic Republic executed more than
700 prisoners last year. Human Rights Watch said at least 11 inmates in
Iran are at <imminent risk> of execution, most of whom are Kurdish.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/124714-no-to-execution-hunger-strike-movement-spreads-across-iran-and-abroad/
Raheleh Rahmipour
Jinha - Womens News Agency 26 Jan 2024
<<Raheleh Rahmipour transferred to hospital after heart attack
Raheleh Rahmipour, a political prisoner in Evin prison, was transferred
to hospital after she had a heart attack.
News Center- Raheleh Rahmipour, a political prisoner serving her
five-year sentence in Evin prison, was transferred to hospital on
Wednesday after she had a heart attack, jailed Nobel Peace Prize
laureate Nargess Mohammadi wrote on Instagram. Raheleh Rahmipour, a
member of the families of those who were executed in the 1980s in Iran,
was sentenced to six years and four months in prison on June 16, 2020 by
Branch 15 of the Iranian Islamic Revolution Court of Tehran. On November
19, 2023, she was summoned and referred to the Evin Prosecutor's Office
to serve a five-year prison sentence. Her brother Hossein Rahmipour was
executed in 1983.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/raheleh-rahmipour-transferred-to-hospital-after-heart-attack-34508
112 union activists on hunger strike
Jinha - Womens News Agency 26 Jan 2024
<<112 union activists go on hunger strike today to protest executions in
Iran
112 union activists announced on Thursday that they would go on a hunger
strike on Friday (January 26) to protest recent executions in Iran.
News Center- 122 union activists, including teacher activist Sara
Siahpour, Free Union Workers of Iran (FUWI) vice-president Parvin
Mohammadi and teacher activist Nasrin Karimi, announced in a statement
on Thursday that they would go on a hunger strike on Friday (January 26)
to protest the recent executions in Iran. The activists demand an
unconditional halt to the death penalty. <As a group of intellectuals,
union activists and labor activists, we will go on a hunger strike on
January 26 to protest unfair trials, executions and injustices in Iran
to be in solidarity with 61 female political prisoners, who started a
hunger strike on January 25. We demand an unconditional halt to the
death penalty,> said the statement.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/112-union-activists-go-on-hunger-strike-today-to-protest-executions-in-iran-34507?page=1
Iranwire - 25 Jan 2024
<<UN Rights Chief Alarmed by <Sharp Spike> in Use of Death Penalty in
Iran
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk says he is alarmed by
the <sharp spike> in the use of the death penalty in Iran, including the
executions of two men earlier this week. <The right to due process and a
fair trial for all defendants must be adhered to. I am also deeply
disturbed by reports of forced confessions obtained under duress. Such
confessions should not be invoked as evidence in any proceedings,> Turk
said in a statement on January 24. On January 23, Mohammed Ghobadlou
became the ninth person to be executed in connection to the 2022
nationwide protests. Farhad Salimi, a Kurdish man, was executed on the
same day after spending 14 years in detention. The two executions brough
to at least 54 the number of people put to death in the country so far
this year. According to Human Rights Watch, at least 11 prisoners in
Iran are at risk of imminent execution. Turk urged the government to
enact an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty, with a
view to abolishing the practice, which the UN official said <is not
consistent with the most fundamental of rights - the right to life.>
Nearly three quarters of the countries in the world have abolished or
introduced a moratorium on the death penalty either in law or in
practice.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/124684-un-rights-chief-alarmed-by-sharp-spike-in-use-of-death-penalty-in-iran/
Iranwire - 25 Jan 2024
<<Elderly Iranian Prisoner Hospitalized After Heart Attack
An Iranian woman prisoner in her 70s was rushed from Tehran's Evin
prison to a hospital after suffering a heart attack. Raheleh Rahemipour
underwent an electrocardiograph on January 25 before being taken to
hospital, Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner imprisoned
in Evin, said on her Instagram account. The incident occurred as dozens
of women political prisoners in Evin went on a hunger strike to protest
executions in Iran. According to Mohammadi, Rahemipour is among four
political prisoners in the women's ward who are over 70 years old.
Rahemipour was put behind bars in November last year to serve a
five-year prison sentence, despite suffering from a brain tumor and
other ailments.
She had been prosecuted for speaking out against the extrajudicial
execution of her brother in 1983.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/124685-elderly-iranian-prisoner-hospitalized-after-heart-attack/
61 female prisoners on hungerstrike
Jinha - Womens News Agency 25 Jan 2024
<<61 female political prisoners in Evin prison go on hunger strike
61 female political prisoners in Evin prison have started a hunger
strike to protest the recent executions in Iran after Farhad Salimi and
Mohammad Ghovadlou were hanged in Iran on Tuesday.
News Center- Mohammad Ghovadlou and Farhad Salimi, two political
prisoners, were executed in Iran on January 23, 2024. 61 female
political prisoners jailed in Evin prison have started a hunger strike
today to protest the recent executions of protesters in Iran, including
the execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimi.
Support from artists and politicians
Many people including Iranian singer and musician Mehdi Yarrahi,
Iranian-American journalist and writer Masih Alinejad, Iranian
journalist and poet Hassan Homayoun, Iranian political activist Sepideh
Qoliyan, Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian and Iranian hip-hop
artist Toomaj Salehi, have expressed their support to the female
political prisoners on their social media accounts. Iranian singer and
musician Mehdi Yarrahi, who was arrested in August 2023 after he
released a song protesting Iran's mandatory hijab, announced on his
social media account on Wednesday that he would start a hunger strike to
support 61 female political prisoners. <Together with 61 ideological and
political women prisoners of Evin, we will go on a hunger strike on
Thursday in protest against the execution of #MohamadGhobadlou and to
stop the executions,> his social media post said.
'Stop the executions'
Iranian hip-hop artist Toomaj Salehi, who was arrested in October 2022
and then sentenced to six years and three months in prison also
announced that he would start a hunger strike to support the female
political prisoners in Evin prison. <After the executions of Mohammad
Ghovadlou and Farhad Salimi, Salehi will go on the hunger strike
together with 61 political prisoners in the women's ward of Evin Prison.
Stop the executions,> his official Twitter page said on Wednesday.
Havana Tamisi, wife of Kurdish political prisoner Mohsen Mazlum, also
announced that she would go on the hunger strike. <As a freedom fighter
and an opponent of the Iranian regime, I announce that I will go on the
hunger strike together with 61 female political prisoners in Evin
prison. Stop the executions in Iran,> she wrote on her social media
account. Iranian journalist, poet and novelist Hassan Homayoun also
announced that he would not eat or drink anything on Thursday, January
25, to support the hunger strike of 61 female political prisoners in
Evin prison.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/61-female-political-prisoners-in-evin-prison-go-on-hunger-strike-34502?page=1
Zeinab Jalalian
Jinha - Womens News Agency 25 Jan 2024
<<Zeinab Jalalian goes on hunger strike in solidarity with 61 female
political prisoners
Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian starts a hunger strike today
in solidarity with 61 female political prisoners in Evin prison, who go
on a hunger strike today to protest the recent executions of protesters
in Iran.
News Center- The Kurdistan Human Rights Network has announced that
Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian, who is behind bars in Yazd
prison, will go on a hunger strike in solidarity with 61 female
political prisoners, who go on a hunger strike today to protest the
recent executions of protesters in Iran, including the execution of
young protester Mohammad Ghobadlou. <Although Zeinab Jalalian has been
held in solitary confinement in Yazd prison and her phone calls are
severely restricted, she announced that she <would go on a hunger strike
on Thursday to be in solidarity with 61 female political prisoners in
Evin prison,> the Kurdistan Human Rights Network said. After Mohammad
Ghobadlou was executed on Tuesday (January 23, 2024), 61 female
political prisoners jailed in Tehran's Evin prison announced that they
would go on a hunger strike on Thursday to protest the recent executions
in Iran, including the execution of young protester Mohammad Ghovadlou.
Zeynab Jalalian is a Kurdish women's rights activist, who was sentenced
to death by an Islamic Revolutionary Court on charges of <enmity against
God> in 2008.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/zeinab-jalalian-goes-on-hunger-strike-in-solidarity-with-61-female-political-prisoners-34500?page=1
Iranwire - 25 Jan 2024
<<Death Penalty Upheld for Iranian Kurdish Political Prisoner
The Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has upheld the death
penalty for Yousef Ahmadi, a Kurdish political prisoner accused of
<waging armed rebellion.> Ahmadi is currently held in Sanandaj prison,
in Kurdistan province. According to reports, three other Sunni Kurdish
defendants in the same case - Mohammad Karimi, Baset Karimi and Mohammad
Faizi - received prison sentences of 25, 20, and 20 years, respectively,
on charges of <assisting in rebellion.> The authorities have intensified
their use of the death penalty in the aftermath of the nationwide
protests that erupted in September 2022 to crush dissent and terrorize
the population. Two men were executed this week after what Amnesty
International called <egregiously unfair> trials marred by torture
allegations. Earlier on January 25, many Iranian activists joined dozens
of women political prisoners held in Tehran's Evin prison in launching a
hunger strike to protest executions in the country.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/124673-death-penalty-upheld-for-iranian-kurdish-political-prisoner/
Femicide in Iran
NCRI - Womens committee - 24 Jan 2024 - in Women's News
<<Femicide in Iran Persists: Two More Women Become Its Heartbreaking
Victims
Two more women become victims of femicide in Iran.
A middle-aged woman in Tehran was set ablaze by her husband and
subsequently transferred to a medical center. Unfortunately, she lost
her life due to the extent of her burns. On the night of Thursday,
January 11, 2024, a man set fire to his 50-year-old wife, who tragically
passed away after a day of hospitalization. According to the state-run
Etemad daily, the woman shared with medical staff in her final hours,
<My husband stopped the car, got out, approached my side, and said,
'Let's settle our problems. I will divorce you.' I replied that I had no
problem. However, he brought out a bottle and doused me with some
liquid. Initially, I thought it might be acid, but then I smelled the
unmistakable odor of petrol. That's when he set me alight.> Several days
after this horrifying incident, the woman's husband was arrested, and he
confessed to the murder of his wife. Another tragic incident took place
in the city of Kavar in Fars Province, southern Iran. A 25-year-old
woman was murdered by her husband due to family differences, according
to state media. The 35-year-old man killed his 25-year-old wife in their
shared residence, using a firearm to perpetrate this heinous act. The
murderer later took his own life with the same firearm in another
location. Femicide in Iran is the worst form of the systematic violence
against Iranian women. It has become prevalent to the government's
failure to hand down adequate punishment to the perpetrators of these
murders.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2024/01/24/femicide-in-iran-persists/
Note from G. d'A.: Since years now, if not decades, this is a huge, be
it not recognized let alone dealt with, problem in Iran, and worldwide
really, and the reason the more to really tackle it so I'll continue to
pay more attention to it soon.
Women's Liberation Front 2019/cryfreedom.net 2024