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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-'24
and the latest news about the 'Women Live Freedom' Revolution per month in
2024:  March wk2 -- March wk1 part3 -- March wk1 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 25, 2023

And
For all topics below
that may hopefully interest you click on the image:
February 19, 2024: Noteworthy by G. d'A.: concerning the below topics from here on all news will be embedded in either the actual news coverage or in a headlined title with a link to the full report or to ' The dance 'round the gallows' news.

'THE NO-HIJABIS'

Updated MARCH 6, 2024

'BIOLOGICAL
TERROR ATTACKS
AGAINST SCHOOLGIRLS'

Updated October 10, 2023

'IRANIAN JOURNALISTS
UNDER SIEGE'

Updated February 5, 2024  

'BLINDING
AS A WEAPON'

Updated January 3, 2024

'THE HANGING SPREE'

Updated Januari 24, 2024

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

'Facing Faces and Facts 1-2'  (2022) to commemorate the above named and more and food for thought and inspiration to fight on.
and 'Facing Faces & Facts 3' edited December 2022/March 2023

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 March 15, 2024)

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
 
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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
<<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

 

 

 

 

A to VICTORY tribute to
NARGES MOHAMMADI
Update March 8, 2024
"As much as the Woman, Life, Freedom movement has bolstered women's awareness, courage, and bravery, it has also resulted in significant oppression and increased pressure on women in Iran by the Islamic Republic..."

February 26, 2024
"The Islamic Republic deserves national sanctions and global condemnation. Boycotting the elections of the dictatorial religious regime is not just a political imperative but also a moral duty for those seeking freedom and justice in Iran."


"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"


 
 

February 26, 2024

The Plight of Zeinab Jalalian: A Woman’s Struggle for Freedom and Justice

February 22, 2024 - RED ALERT
Leaked Documents Give Glimpse of Repression in Iran
February 16, 2024


Click here for more stories of Heroines of Iran
 

February 13, 2024

Forough Farrokhzad, a poet for all ages

Please do read the following articles with mostly very 'Inspiring Stories' - click on the underlined topics -
Updates
11 March, 2024: UN-Report-Implicates-Khamenei-in-Crimes-Against-Humanity
8 March, 2024:
UN-blames-regime-for-killing-Jina-Amini
and
Iran state atrocities
7 March, 2024:
 The courage and resilience of Iranian women

and Widespread Violations of Womens in 2023
6 March, 2024:
Gender apartheid regime
and No one hears their voices

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

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

Copyright: Walter Draesner
March 2 - February 22, 2024
Saman Yasin, jailed Iranian rapper: "Take my life too and be done with it"

February 25, 2024

"Don't tell my Mama"
February 20 - 15, 2024
Radio-silence? The never-ending hanging soap aka 'reality-show'.
*OHCHR - UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Click here for earlier reports

Click here for the latest news of the
'Woman, Life, Freedom'
revolution

March 1 - February 29, 2024
<<Sporadic Violence Breaks Out During Iran’s Polling Day...
and <<Iranian Conscript Takes His Own Life as Military Suicides Rise...
and <<Jailed Iranian Singer’s Phone Access Cut for Urging Election Boycott...
and <<Grammy-winning Iranian Protest Singer Sentenced to Jail...
and <<Iranian Government Sends Ballot Boxes to Flooded Province—Instead of Aid...
and <<Two 17-Year-Old Kurdish Minors Detained by Iranian Authorities
and also will bring you through the rest of Februari 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.


Iran's state atrocities
Center for Human Rights Iran
<<Crimes Against Humanity Unveiled: UN Fact-Finding Mission Exposes Iran's State Atrocities
Peaceful Protesters Subjected to Excessive Force, Torture, Rape, and Arbitrary Executions
Call to Action: UN Human Rights Council Members Urged to Extend Fact-Finding Mission and Special Rapporteur Mandates
March 8, 2024 - Grave human rights violations perpetrated by the government of Iran since the outbreak of the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' protests in September 2022, which include atrocities that amount to crimes against humanity, were revealed today by the independent, international Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFMI) in its inaugural report. <The Islamic Republic's violent repression of peaceful dissent and severe discrimination against women and girls in Iran has been confirmed as constituting nothing short of crimes against humanity,> said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). <The government's brutal crackdown on the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' protests has seen a litany of atrocities that include extrajudicial killings, torture, and rape. These violations disproportionately affect the most vulnerable in society, women, children, and minority groups,> he added. <Given the severity of the crimes perpetrated against the people of Iran and the substantial evidence still being collected and submitted, it is imperative that UN Human Rights Council member states vote in favor of renewing the fact-finding mission's mandate at the current 55th session of the Human Rights Council,> said Ghaemi. <Only by doing so can we progress towards achieving accountability for the perpetrators and justice for the victims of these egregious violations,> he added. CHRI will be in Geneva in the coming days, at the 55th session of the Human Rights Council (26 February to 5 April 2024), urging member states to vote in April for renewal of the Fact-Finding Mission's mandate, as well as the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran.
Established by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in 2022 to investigate the Islamic Republic’s crackdown on the 2022 protests, which came to be known as the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement, the FFMI has amassed extensive evidence of state atrocities, including mass murder, widespread blinding, arbitrary arrests of over 20,000, and torture of detainees, including children. With the collection of evidence still ongoing, the FFMI needs more time to investigate this material, preserve evidence, identify perpetrators, and establish mechanisms to transfer knowledge to other bodies. Given the Iranian authorities' refusal to hold any officials accountable for the documented crimes committed, allowing the FFMI to conclude its work and fulfill its mandate is imperative for justice. Meanwhile, the Office of the Special Rapporteur serves as a vital depository for human rights information and case material on Iran. Its detailed reports have significantly raised global awareness of the scope and severity of rights abuses in Iran, and its work has led to prisoner releases and halts to executions. The 'Woman, Life, Freedom' protests in Iran stemmed from the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman, while in custody of the morality police in September 2022, just three days after she was arrested for alleged hijab violations. Amini's killing was not promptly or thoroughly investigated by the authorities in Iran, as is required by international human rights law. Instead, the government actively concealed the truth and denied justice, and then moved to legalize harsher punishments on women and girls who refuse to abide by the state’s compulsory hijab law. New pending legislation in Iran on mandatory hijab laws has increased the punishments on women for noncompliance, and has been described by UN human rights experts have described as tantamount to gender apartheid. Subsequently, the government deployed its security apparatus to suppress the ensuing protests, resulting in the deaths of at least 551 protesters, including 49 women and 68 children, with firearms, including assault rifles, being the primary cause of death.
Excessive Force: Peaceful Protests Met with Torture, Rape, Arbitrary Executions
The Fact-Finding Mission's 20-page mandated report on Iran, released today in English and in Persian on March 8, International Women's Day, will be followed by the full 400-page conference report paper on March 18, comprehensively exposing the violent state suppression of peaceful protests, the pervasive institutional discrimination against women and girls in Iran, and the severe rights violations and crimes committed by the state.
These include extra-judicial and unlawful killings, unnecessary and disproportionate use of force, arbitrary deprivation of liberty, torture, rape, enforced disappearances, and gender persecution. <These acts form part of a widespread and systematic attack directed against the civilian population in Iran, namely against women, girls, boys and men who have demanded freedom, equality, dignity and accountability,> said Sara Hossain, chair of the FFMI. <We urge the Government to immediately halt the repression of those who have engaged in peaceful protests, in particular women and girls.> The FFMI uncovered egregious abuses by security forces during protests, including unjustified lethal force resulting in deaths and injuries, and a disturbing pattern of blinding protestors, many of them women and children. Arbitrary arrests targeted individuals for minor acts of expression or support for women's rights, with detainees subjected to torture, rape, and other forms of gender-based violence. The government's summary executions, relying on forced confessions, further underscore the grave human rights violations. High-ranking officials sanctioned and encouraged these violations, while disinformation campaigns demonized protestors as <rioters> or <foreign agents.> State security forces, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, were active in these atrocities, with ongoing repression extending to families, journalists, and human rights defenders.
No Cooperation from the Islamic Republic
The FFMI expressed deep concern over the Iranian authorities' lack of cooperation, despite repeated requests for crucial information and access to investigate reported violations. It highlighted the Islamic Republic's government's opaque approach to its own investigations into alleged human rights abuses. Given the absence of effective remedies and the longstanding culture of impunity in Iran, Human Rights Council member states are urged to seek accountability through international channels. CHRI echoes the FFMI's calls for the application of universal jurisdiction to all international crimes, the establishment of victim funds, and the provision of protection measures, including asylum and humanitarian visas, for those fleeing persecution in Iran. <The report emphasizes the urgent imperative for accountability and the renewal of the fact-finding mission's and special rapporteur's mandates to address these widespread crimes against humanity,> stated Ghaemi. He added, <Codifying the crime of gender apartheid in the UN's crimes against humanity treaty and officially designating Iran as a gender apartheid state are also crucial steps in facilitating accountability.> >>
Source:
https://iranhumanrights.org/2024/03/crimes-against-humanity-unveiled-un-fact-finding-mission-exposes-irans-state-atrocities/

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