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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
and the latest news about the 'Women Live Freedom' Revolution per month in
2024: June wk2 part2 -- June wk2 -- June wk1 part2 -- June wk1 -- May wk5 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 23, 2023

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 

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

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 June 14, 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. 

Articles about JINA
March 4 - February 27, 2024:
<<Iranian Teacher Arrested for <Illegal Gathering> at Mahsa Amini's Grave...
and more news

UPDATE: February 12 , 2024:
<<Unlawfully Imprisoned Activist and Organizer of Mahsa Jina Amini's Funeral Must Be Released on Medical Grounds
<<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

 

 

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

 

 

 

A to VICTORY tribute to
NARGES MOHAMMADI
Update May 27, 2024
Narges Mohammadi, the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate criticizes the United Nations' planned memorial ceremony for Ebrahim Raisi, calling it "a commemoration of the executions and mass killings."

May 6, 2024
"Tyranny will fall"


"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"



 

May 27, 2024
Zhina Modarres Gorji, Kurdish Women's Sentenced to 21 Years
 

 

 

April 30, 2024
Atena Farghadani - Target on her back

 
Click here for more stories of Heroines of Iran 

April 20, 2024
Suma Pour-Mohammadi sentenced to 11 years in prison


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

Please do read the following articles with mostly very 'Inspiring Stories' - click on the underlined topics -
Updates
June 11, 2024: Journalist Hassan Shanbehzadeh others imprisoned ahead of presidential election

and
Recognizing Women's Organizations and Supporting Voluntary Efforts

and
Crackdown Intensifies as Irans Sham Presidential Election Nears

June 7, 2024: Educational Rights for Iranian Women and Girls

and more:
May 25, 2024: The right to freedom
and 
Click here for previous inspiring stories and  articles incl. Red Alerts

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

Update on this page:
June 5 - May 23, 2024: It |Iran| puts people to death in order to terrorize the population into silence.
and other stories 
May 29 - 23, 2024
Iran Accounts for 74% of Global Executions in 2023: Amnesty
and more
May 21 - 16, 2024
raisi is dead but will pay for his heinous crimes
and other stories

 
*OHCHR - UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Click here for earlier reports

June 12 - 11, 2024
<<Journalist Mahta Sadri released on bail...
and <<Hamideh Zeraei released on bail from Lakan prison...
and <<Political Prisoner Nejat Anvar Hamidi Deprived of Medical Treatment...
and <<Imprisoned Iranian Journalist Suffers Miscarriage After Court Session...
and <<Sunni Imam Detained in Iran Without Warrant...
and <<Kurdish student Summayeh Shafiei attempted Suicide, due to Pressure and Threats from University Authorities...
and <<Iranian artist sentenced to 6 years in prison...
and <<Crackdown on Dissent Intensifies Ahead of Presidential Polls in Iran...
and <<Iran Commutes Sunni Cleric's Death Sentence to Life Imprisonment...
and <<Iranian Protester Takes Own Life Amid Security Forces Pressure
and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell!

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.


Center for Human Rights in Iran - 11 June 2024
<<Crackdown in Iran Intensifies as Iran's Sham Presidential Election Nears
Hundreds of Arrests, Detainees Violently Assaulted and Tortured
Global Leaders Must Speak Out Against the Islamic Republic's Violence
June 11, 2024 - Three weeks after the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, and as the Islamic Republic prepares for a state-orchestrated presidential <election> on June 28, civil society has come under intensified attack by the authorities, with violent and arbitrary arrests surging as the state seeks to crush all dissent, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. <While the Islamic Republic moves forward with a completely controlled and sham election, it is viciously lashing out at any independent societal voice in Iran,> said CHRI Executive Director Hadi Ghaemi. <Its security agents arrest and brutalize the people of Iran and its judiciary dutifully locks them up, all to silence a society that increasingly says 'No' to the Islamic Republic's repression,> he added. <It is this violent state repression, committed flagrantly and with impunity, that the international community must respond to, publicly and forcefully, with costly diplomatic isolation and economic consequences,> Ghaemi urged.
According to statements made by local officials in the cities of Kerman, Tehran, and Foman, in the past two weeks at least 300 activists and users of social media networks have been summoned, arrested or charged for publicly criticizing former President Ebrahim Raisi after he died in a helicopter crash on May 19, 2024. Some have also been targeted by state security agencies for criticizing the upcoming presidential election, which has banned all viable opposition candidates from running. CHRI cautions this number could be much higher, as it is based on statements made by officials who typically downplay arrests made during state crackdowns, and notes that these security measures are applied more widely and arbitrarily in small towns and against minorities.
CHRI calls on editors and journalists covering Iran's upcoming election to note:
These elections are neither free nor fair, as all viable opposition has been banned from running.
Any Iranian citizen who criticizes or calls for a boycott of this deeply flawed election process will continue to face arbitrary arrest, torture, and imprisonment. Journalists are under severe pressure to toe the state line on the elections and will face expulsion, arrest, and prosecution for refusing to do so.
The international community, including the UN and global leaders should:
Publicly condemn these severe violations of freedom of expression and directly warn the Iranian authorities that intensifying diplomatic and economic consequences will follow the continuation of these unlawful arrests and detainments. Be alert to the potential for increased state violence and repression as the election approaches, and forcefully condemn any violence against civil society. According to CHRI's sources in Iran, agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Intelligence Organization have been systematically involved in threatening, summoning, and arresting citizens over the past several weeks for commenting on Raisi's record of repression following his death. Journalists, victims of state violence, and activists who had been previously arrested during Iran's 2022/2023 'Women, Life, Freedom' uprising are also facing renewed repression and intimidation. Meanwhile, the families of detainees, especially in smaller cities, are under intense pressure by the authorities to remain silent about their cases.
Activists and Journalists Violently Arrested, Tortured
Activists arrested during Iran’s 'Woman, Life, Freedom' uprising have come under particular pressure. They include Farshad Dastmardi who was previously arrested and tortured during Iran's 2022 'Woman, Life, Freedom' protests, and who was again tortured during his most recent arrest just a few weeks ago. On May 20, 2024, a few hours after Raisi's death, Ministry of Intelligence agents raided Dastmardi’s home, tortured him in detention for hours and then left him in the street outside a hospital, a source familiar with his case told CHRI. <On the day they announced that Raisi died, three agents climbed over the wall of Farshad's house and entered while he was asleep,> said the source, who requested anonymity for security reasons. <Farshad woke up from the sound of his sister fighting the agents and ran towards them. The agents assaulted him with batons, fists and kicks. One of the agents sat on Farshad’s head, another on his legs, handcuffed him and put him in a car with repeated punches to his chest and took him away half dead,> said the source.
The source continued:
Inside the Ministry of Intelligence office, agents put Farshad on a chair and handcuffed him from behind. The interrogator pressured him to say that after Raisi's death, he had been organizing opponents to start a protest and overthrow the government. The agents tortured and interrogated Farshad for four hours. The agents beat Farshad several times until the next morning to force him to sign a confession that he mocked Raisi and used obscenities against him. After 24 hours, the security forces left Farshad in a very bad condition in front of Khomeini Hospital. He was not even able to walk due to the severity of the beatings. During the raid on Farshad's home, the agents had seized all the phones of the family members. At four in the morning, family members and some friends of Farshad, went to the Ministry of Intelligence office and protested. <When they learned Farshad's condition had improved, Ministry of Intelligence agents contacted his father and told him to bring his son to their office,> the source told CHRI. <Farshad's family haven't taken him to the doctor, nor allowed him to leave the house, fearing he would be re-arrested.> Journalists who've been targeted include Manijeh Moazen, who said on May 22, 2024, that a case had been opened against her in the Culture and Media Court after she was arrested in late May for posting a video showing people in Tehran celebrating with fireworks following Raisi's death. Other journalists who've been arrested since Raisi's death include

Mahta Sadri
Mahta Sadri, a journalist in Gilan province, who was arrested on May 25 after she published a story about the former president's death on Instagram. Sources said she was arrested by the IRGC and was released on June 9. Others have received threatening phone calls, including Alia Matlabzadeh, a photojournalist in Tehran, and also in the capital, Hirsh Saeedian, an economic journalist, and Amir Hossein Mosalla, the editor-in-chief of the Ayat Mandegar Magazine. In addition, on June 6, the Tehran prosecutor announced that charges had been filed against Hossein Pakdel, a former state TV host and actor, for <publishing material aimed at disrupting society's psychological security and making insults and slander,> regarding Raisi, as well as Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s Quds force who was assassinated by a U.S. drone attack in Iraq in January 2020. Hossein Shanbehzadeh, an author and editor, was taken into custody in the city of Ardabil, in Ardabil province in northern Iran, on June 4, after replying to a tweet from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with a single character: a period. A day after the arrest, the Ardabil prosecutor, without naming Shanbezadeh, announced the arrest of a <fugitive wanted by the Ministry of Intelligence for being an Israeli spy.> In a statement, Shanbehzadeh's family responded, <The serious accusations raised against our loved one cannot be justified on the basis of his online activities with his real name.>
Meanwhile, there is no information on Zana Hassanzadeh, a dissident protest artist and rapper who was also arrested on May 22 in the Kurdish city of Bukan, in northwest Iran's West Azerbaijan province, following a post on his Instagram page in which he commented on Raisi's death. Reza Babrnejad, the brother of Mehdi Babrnejad (one of the hundreds of protesters who were killed during the 'Women, Life, Freedom' protests), has been arrested twice, first on June 1, and then again on June 6, just five days after he'd been released on bail, after he posted on the day of Raisi's death an old video of his late brother dancing.>>
Source:
https://iranhumanrights.org/2024/06/crackdown-in-iran-intensifies-as-irans-sham-presidential-election-nears/
 
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