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JINA 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: WK 3P3 -- Wk 3P2 -- Dec Wk3 -- Dec wk2P3 -- Dec wk2P2 -- Dec wk2 -- Dec wk1P4 -- Dec wk1P3 -- Dec wk1P2 -- Dec wk1 -- 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 --  November - Januari 2023

click here for a menu overview


Tribute to KIAN PIRFALA, 9 years old and victim of the Islamic Republic's savagery 10 years ago.

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 
You are now at the Iran 'Woman, Life, Freedom'  section

 HEAR JINA AMINI'S VOICE
And do read also the above linked  incredible December 2023 update!

despite the mullahs' regime to force it down!
Her mother speaks out loud and clear
UPDATED:
September 29 - 16, 2024
Second Anniversary of Jina Amini's
state-sanctioned murder

incl. Commemorating Bloody Friday
a wave of arrests of her fellow-citizen

Overview of news about the Second aniversary of Jina Amini's state-sactioned murder September 2024


JINA AMINI
The face of Iran's protests. Her life, her dreams and her death.

Read also: Armita's Story: Iran's Generation Z Rebellion Against the Ayatollahs

Ongoing since Oct. 3, 2024:
Commemoration of the Fallen for
Freedom
Part6
 
Click here for previous Commemorations  
And more commemorational stories
Tortured to Death: The Story of Atefeh Na'ami
Violence During Woman, Life, Freedom Protests


'Women's Arab Spring 1.2'
Updated Dec. 13, 2024


Syria: the Fall of Assad and aftermath
Updates Dec 17 - 15,2024


PALESTINE

Updated Dec 17, 2024

HAIL TO THE IRANIAN WOMEN'S REVOLUTIONISTS FALLEN FOR FREDOM
against the supreme leader, the arch-reactionary Ayatollah Ali Khomeini, and his placeman president. The message of the women when the former president visited a university was plain: <give way or get lost> in 2023 and still is.
IN MEMORY OF ASRA PANAHI (16)- JINA MAMINI (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


(Updates December 18, 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.

This links to a page that is in full dedicated and a tribute to Jina Amini who, with stilll 'till today too many other sisters gave their life for freedom.
Long live a long and free Iran



We all grief for the loss of our sister / daughter of Iran Armita Gevarnand:
 


Read her updated story here
 

A to VICTORY tribute to
NARGES MOHAMMADI
Dec 5, 2024: Narges Mohammadi chants 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadi' after temporarily freed from prison
Nov. 18, 2024: Joint letter: Nobel Peace Laureate Urgently Needs Essential Medical Care for Serious Health Problems
May 6, 2024
"Tyranny will fall"

"Victory is not easy, but it is certain"
watch it here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LAMPz57Aqw 

 Click here for a news-overview from January 15, 2024 'till October 31, 2023











 


JINA AMINI'S VOICE IS HEARD
And do read also the above linked  incredible December 2023 update!

despite the mullahs' regime to force it down!
Her mother speaks out loud and clear
UPDATED: September 29 - 16, 2024
Second Anniversary of Jina Amini's
state-sanctioned murder

incl. Commemorating Bloody Friday
and earlier news about

a wave of arrests of her fellow-citizen
 

 

 

 

MARJAM AKBARI MONFARED

June 24, 2024: The Iranian Regime Judiciary Launches a New Case to Seize the Assets of Maryam Akbari Monfared and Her Family, in Revenge for Seeking Justice for Her Siblings Executed in the 1980s
Click the above for also earlier news
 
 

'War against the No-hijabi women'
UPDATE-Nov. 13, 2024: hijab-torture clinics

Earlier Stories and more

VIDA MOVAHED

A more than brave woman who's
challenging the mullahs' regime and its
'dress-laws'

Updated November 22, 2024

VARISHEH MORADI

Click here for extra news about 
 the Death Sentence for
Kurdish Activist Varisheh Moradi and  the(international) support she gets


Click here for more stories of Heroines of Iran 

PAKSHAN AZIZI
Updated Dec. 5, 2024 :
Ongoing Denial of Family Visits for Death Row Political Prisoner Pakhshan Azizi
and previous news:
Dozens of grieving families demand reversal of death sentences for Varisheh Moradi and Pakhshan Azizi
and earlier
Iran: Death row prisoner Pakhshan Azizi's cellmates demand justice for her
and
"You dictator, I am Arash, fire responds to fire,"

Also in her case the mullahs' regime
is threathening to hang her
for opposing it and moreso
for being a Kurd.

Overview of her Actions
 

Please do read the above and following articles about heroines and other brave people who risk live and limb for the women-led revolution and no matter what they'll never give in nor up!and other stories: click on the underlined December  '24 topics:

  Alarming: Women Being Sent to the Gallows
& The gas chambers of Iran
& Female Referee Reveals Threats and Harassment when struggling for freedom
& A Woman's Defiance Against Oppression
& Daughters, Wives, Sisters: Iran's Silent Femicide Crisis
  
and 
Click here for previous inspiring stories and  articles incl. Red Alerts  


'New' topic:  a regimes' re-newed method of torture: denial of medical care
Nov. 22 - Aug. 30, 2024:
Medical torture of women during incarceration
November 4, 2024
"UN Expert Highlights Alarming Violations Against Women and Fundamental Freedoms..."
October 19-18 2024 - July 18, 2016 Health taken hostage 
 
 And read here more about the
'Nurses 'strike' back':
Other updates can be read in
the 'Actual News' section
"Nurses can neutralize security forces' efforts with unity."
August 30, 2024
and updates:
August 28, 2024:

Nurses' demands - "A nurse will die, but will not accept humiliation,":

"NO to executions" campaign

In support - reflection and updates:
Sept. 7 - August 20, 2024

Other updates can be read in
the 'Actual News' section

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


Other updates can be read in
the 'Actual News' section

 July 8 - 4, 2024: The-death-sentence-against-Sharifeh-Mohammadi

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
 

 

December 17 - 15, 2024
<<UN 71st Resolution Condemns Iran's Human Rights Violations, Targeted Repression of Women...
& <<Widespread Power Cuts Fuel Street Protests in Tehran...
& <<Zeinab Jalalian: Continued Denial of Medical Care and Family Visits for Iranian Political Prisoner...
& <<Iranian Police Fatally Shoot Young Man in Western Iran...
& <<Su'da Khedirzadeh's toddler, Ala, faces poor health conditions in Urmia Prison...
& <<Vote-Rigging Scandal Rocks Iranian Parliament...
& <<IRGC Arrests Nine Citizens and Civil Activists in Western Iran...
& <<Reza Valizadeh sentenced to ten years imprisonment and additional punishments...
& <<Security forces arrest 7 Kurds in Mahabad...
and more actual and fact-finding news

Dec. 5, 2024: Iranian Women Rise Against the New Hijab Law with the Slogan "Woman, Resistance, Freedom"


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.


Iranwire - December 13, 2024 - by Samaneh Ghadarkhan
<<Surviving Evin: A Woman's Defiance Against Oppression
The story of Ekbatan Town is one of bloodshed and shattered dreams, reflecting the Islamic Republic's harsh crackdown on the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.
Behind each name - Milad, Alireza, Hossein, Navid, Amir Mohammad - lies a universe of potential extinguished by a system that sees taking young lives as a tool to stay in power.
Sahar Barlouei's testimony sharply challenges the official narrative.
She speaks of midnight raids, of terror that descends without warning, and of young people torn from their families and thrown into the machinery of state persecution. The death of a member of the Basij militia became a pretext - a mechanism to crush the spirit of resistance in Ekbatan. Fifty young residents. Fourteen charged. Eight facing the ultimate price for an uprising born of decades of oppression.
Execution.
The numbers are clinical, but behind them are real stories - interrupted educations, shattered families, and dreams violently truncated.
These people are charged with <waging war against God,> a theological weapon that transforms political dissent into a spiritual crime. It is a charge that leaves no room for mercy, turning young protesters into enemies of divine order. Barlouei escaped, but her escape is not a victory. It is survival, weighted with survivor's guilt and a burning commitment to bear witness. "The whole of Iran must be their voice," she says. On November 23, 2022, Sahar was arrested at her home on charges of <assembly and collusion.> Residents of Ekbatan began their demonstrations by chanting slogans from their windows the night news broke about Mahsa Amini being hospitalized at Kasra Hospital.

Jina Amini
According to Sahar, street protests began after news of Mahsa's death spread.
Sahar told IranWire, "The unique structure of Ekbatan made it difficult for security forces and suppressive agents to break up the protests and arrest participants as they did in other parts of Tehran or other cities. We, the residents of Ekbatan, know the area, while the security forces and outsiders would get lost there." She praised the solidarity and unity among Ekbatan's residents, calling it unparalleled in Iran. "During the day, I would join protests in other areas, but at night, I would return to Ekbatan. Once, I was almost arrested there but managed to escape." Sahar described how people of all ages participated in Ekbatan's protests, including elderly individuals using walkers, as well as children, teenagers, men, women, and entire families. She said, "We told the elderly to sit on benches if security forces arrived, thinking they wouldn't target them, but we were wrong. They behaved violently and insulted the elderly too." Security forces tracked Sahar to her home, where they violently raided and arrested her along with a few friends who were present.
Her ordeal began with the abuse of her dog.
"I never thought they would raid my home," Sahar said. "I always kept my phone free of any photos or videos, but when they stormed in, they found photos, videos, and chats on my phone, which led to them accusing me of collaborating with <enemies.> They harassed me relentlessly over ties to <enemy> media." At the time of her arrest, there was no mention of Arman Aliverdi - a member of the Basij militia - being part of her case.
However, a few days later, his death was added to the charges against her. "They found a video of the scene where Arman Aliverdi was injured in the downloads folder on my phone. I hadn’t recorded it myself - I had received it from elsewhere," Sahar explained. Sahar says: "I was directly dealing with the Ministry of Intelligence and was held in Ward 209 of Evin Prison. The interrogators would tell me, <We're being nice; if you're sent to the IRGC Intelligence, they won't treat you as kindly as we do. They'll behave however they like.> "They insisted, <We know you filmed it, just confess and cooperate.> But I didn't accept, and from that point on, my interrogator changed." Her charge shifted from <assembly and collusion> to <participating in the murder of Arman Aliverdi> on the night of November 5, 2022. She said, "All my interrogation sessions and written statements bore the label <Incident 14/8.> The number of interrogations increased, and my bail was rejected." When she went to court for her defense, she discovered her primary charge was <accessory to murder.> She recalls, "Someone named 'Mohammadi' placed a sheet in front of me and said, <Write your defense.> I replied, "I won't, because I don't accept this charge." He said, <It's not important. If you don't defend, go.>" Sahar was caught between the judiciary and the Ministry of Intelligence. "Someone named Movahed or Movahedi from the judiciary came to Evin and claimed to want to hear grievances. I told him I thought the judiciary sought justice, but you seem no different from the Ministry of Intelligence interrogators. I told him I was nowhere near the incident but at least 300 meters away and had no knowledge of what happened. He said, <It doesn't matter what you say; what matters is the evidence in your file. The expert has provided enough documentation to prove it without your confession.>" She responds to Movahedi by rejecting the evidence, calling it all lies and falsehoods, "Movahedi replied to me, saying, <You can't just dismiss it like that.> I insisted that I completely reject the evidence because the interrogator had pinpointed the route and timing of my departure from home accurately, but at one point, they tampered with the tracking data, making it appear we ended up in Farahzad, which wasn't true." 'SIM card pinpointing,' or location tracking, is a process carried out by the judiciary in cooperation with telecommunications organizations. This process allows the real location of a mobile device to be tracked, even if the phone is turned off or the SIM card is removed which uses BTS antennas. Depending on environmental conditions, this technology can track a SIM card within distances ranging from 5 to 20 kilometers. Sahar explains, "No matter how much I said this pinpointing doesn't match my movements that night, they said, <It doesn't matter what you say; we've determined it's you.> I told the judiciary representative, Movahedi, to independently trace my movements that night. Then you'll see I wasn't near the Basij member who was killed.
"I also told him I'd file a complaint against the interrogator and wrote it down." Sahar said she had no hope of changing her case but believed this was her last chance to clear herself of the charge. She requested that her objection not be referred to the Ministry of Intelligence. Sahar recounts, "The judiciary representative, in a condescending tone, said, <They are human too. Have they abused you?>" Sahar had confronted the interrogator several times, which led to retaliation. The interrogator repeatedly pushed her chair, causing her head to hit the interrogation room wall and injuring her. She was also beaten several times during interrogations with a baton. "The judiciary representative told me to file a complaint against my interrogator. I refused and told him, "Just investigate my location tracking to determine the first accusation of participation in Arman's murder. That's enough.""
Sahar was returned to her cell.
Her complaint about the interrogator's mistreatment was reported, but her situation worsened. According to her, a person named Nematian, who claimed to have been the director of Ward 209 in Evin for 20 years, told her that the investigator was unconvinced about one of her charges, so the interrogations would start over. Sahar recalled that when her cellmates heard the news, they cried, saying, "They won't remove the charge of aiding murder from your case." A week later, Sahar was taken to court for her defense. The investigator treated her as if they were speaking for the first time. A paper was placed in front of her, and she was told, <Read it, see your charges, and defend yourself.> Sahar says, "When I read the paper, I saw that the charge of aiding murder had been removed, replaced with <collusion and assembly> as the primary charge. I didn't object. I wrote my defense. The interrogations continued, and the interrogator’s behavior worsened, but they didn't raise the issue again. Instead, they wanted me to name others. They gave me sheets to write about people I knew or didn't know." Sahar explained that she continued her civil activism secretly in Iran, which is why she didn't publicize her case. She said, "But now I felt I needed to speak out, to show how easily they fabricate a case against someone, and just as easily drop charges." She added, "I could have been one of those six people facing execution in the Ekbatan case. I see myself as someone they easily accused and then removed the charges." Sahar, a computer engineering graduate, gained legal knowledge through studying laws and receiving help from older detainees and legal professionals in prison. This awareness helped her navigate her case. She says, "Prisoners told me confessions are crucial - don't confess. In Evin, I learned that a confession is one of the main bases for a judge's decision. During interrogations, you're forced to say what they want, but as much as possible, don’t take responsibility for what you haven't done." Sahar's interrogation sessions were very long. The sound of the prison's call to prayer helped her estimate the time of day. She was even interrogated for hours about old family photos and videos on her phone. They asked why she had photos without a hijab in public, why she danced to music without a hijab in a supermarket, or why she attended a private family gathering in a swimming pool with relatives. The interrogator told Sahar, <You didn't need Mahsa; you started a revolution for yourself.> According to Sahar, she was interrogated about all the electronic devices confiscated from her home during her arrest. None of them have been returned. Sahar said mockery was also part of the interrogation. When they saw she was too weak to get up from the floor, they laughed loudly and mockingly said, <You chicks thought you could start a revolution? You can't even get up from the ground.> Sahar adds, "Hearing this from the interrogator actually lifted my spirits - it meant they admitted we wanted a revolution, and that gave me more energy." She was repeatedly threatened with the arrest of her mother, brother, and friends.
"They’d say, <Confess, or you'll stay here so long you'll never see your dog again. Your dog is getting old - it will die.> But none of this made me confess."
She was released on bail and left Iran.>>
Source: https://iranwire.com/en/women/137116-surviving-evin-a-womans-defiance-against-oppression/

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