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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
November 22, 2024)
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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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Please do read
the above and following articles about heroines 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
November '24
topics:
20 November 2024:
World Children's Day is
Meaningless Without Fighting to Protect the Most
Vulnerable
November 18, 2024:
Students Hospitalized After
Chemical Attack at Tehran Girls' School
November 15, 2024:
Kianoosh Sanjari:
The Iranian Journalist Who Refused to Be Silent or Stay
Away
14 Nov 2024:
The Heroic Role of Women Fighting
for Freedom
November 14, 2023:
Six More Young Protesters
Sentenced to Death in Iran After Grossly Unfair Trial
and
Seeking justice
for massacres protesters
And earlier
Actual stories:
Commemoration of the Fallen for Freedom
Part 5
And more commemorational stories
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
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
August 30, 2024:
"Nurses can neutralize security
forces' efforts with unity."
and updates:
August 28, 2024:
Nurses' demands - "A nurse will
die, but will not accept humiliation,":
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"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
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November 20 - 18, 2024
<<Young woman murdered by
husband...
& Vida Movahed Released
from Hospital...
& <<The Plight of Young
Children Incarcerated with Their Mothers...
& World March of Women
condemns death sentence of Varisheh Moradi...
& <<Nasimeh Eslam Zehi with
Her 7-month-old Baby Held in Iran's Evin Prison...
& <<Nasrin Shahkarami stands trial...
&<<"Mala Jin": The unique
women's houses transforming Middle Eastern society...
& <<Iranian Activist
Reports Sexual Abuse in Detention...
& <<'We'll Make You Confess
to Everything': Iranian Man Tortured to Death in
Custody...
and more actual and revealing news |
November 18 - 15, 2024
<<Nasrin Shahkarami stands
trial...
& <<Roshanak Malai-Alishah
remains detained amid uncertainty about her condition...
& <<Ghafar Akbari dies due
to torture at Malekan Intelligence Detention Center...
& <<Two years of forced
disappearance of Osman Mame, a "Woman-Life-Freedom"
Movement Arrestee...
& <<Nurses and Retirees
Protest Against Injustice in Tehran and Other Cities...
& <<Political activist
Zahra Rezaei arrested in Tehran to serve her prison
sentence...
& <<22 political defendants
sentenced to a total of 161 years of imprisonment in
Isfahan...
and more actual and fact-finding news |
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 - November 15, 2024 - by Aida Ghajar
<<Kianoosh Sanjari: The Iranian Journalist Who Refused to Be Silent or
Stay Away
Kianoosh Sanjari, an Iranian journalist and political activist whose
love for his homeland drew him back repeatedly despite imprisonment and
persecution, died by suicide on Wednesday in a final act of protest
against the detention of political prisoners. He was 42. His death
followed a public ultimatum demanding the release of four imprisoned
activists, including Fatemeh Sepehri and Toomaj Salehi. Sanjari's life
was defined by an unrelenting commitment to human rights advocacy that
began in his teens. At 17, he experienced his first imprisonment,
marking the beginning of a pattern that would repeat throughout his
life. Despite his young age, Sanjari was held in various detention
centers alongside detainees over the age of 18. He described being
beaten multiple times during detention and ultimately spent two years in
Evin Prison. After his release, Sanjari started a blog where he
initially wrote about the harsh conditions of prison and the abuses he
endured. He disclosed in the blog that he had been threatened with
sexual assault by a court clerk and suffered various forms of harassment
and humiliation during his imprisonment. He detailed spending about nine
months in solitary confinement out of the two years he served, enduring
what he called "white torture." In 1999, Sanjari sought refuge in the
United States, where he worked with Voice of America. However, after a
decade abroad, homesickness and concern for his mother compelled him to
return to Iran. Within two months of his return, he was arrested and
sentenced to five years in prison on charges of <propaganda against the
Islamic Republic> and <assembly and collusion against national
security.> "I told my interrogator, let me remain in love with my
country - don't send me to prison," Sanjari recalled in a 2022 interview
with IranWire. The interview revealed the depth of his suffering,
including torture, psychiatric hospitalization, and the impact his
activism had on his family, particularly his mother, who had to resume
weekly prison visits to her son. After completing his sentence in 2022,
Sanjari left Iran again and documented his departure in a photo shared
with IranWire. Yet the pull of his homeland proved irresistible, and he
returned once more that spring, only to face renewed persecution.
Throughout his life, Sanjari's activism came at a profound personal
cost.
His imprisonment deeply affected his mother, who watched her son return
from safety abroad only to face incarceration repeatedly. "She now had
to visit him every week in jail," he had said, describing his mother's
ordeal.
Kianoosh wrote the following article for IranWire in 2022.
Tonight, March 21, 2022, I passed through the last airport gate with
hesitant steps, tear-filled eyes and an aching heart. I boarded the
plane and left my dear, occupied homeland behind after five years, five
months and 20 days of prison, psychiatric hospitals, being interrogated
in <safe houses>, signing the attendance roster every week on medical
leave, the payment of fines (a ransom), and the lifting of the travel
ban.
A Moment of Weakness
For those who are not familiar with my story, let me just say that I was
madly in love with my country. So on October 2, 2016, after 10 years of
working and living in the United States, I decided to overcome once and
for all my deadly homesickness - for my family and my country - and the
terror of returning to a land where, before escaping, I had faced
torture, solitary confinement and prison sentences several times.
Despite my madness, I knew my country was still occupied by the devil. I
had experienced the pain of being a stranger in my own country before,
and I knew the Intelligence Ministry, the IRGC Intelligence Unit, the
Revolutionary Courts and judges like Salavati ruled over the lives of
ordinary people. But I was so gripped with this madness, I wanted to
hope that "humanity" would rescue me. I forgot the truth, that at this
juncture of my country's history, the ability to comprehend this lofty
ideal has been uprooted.
What They Did to Me
Let me tell you this. Despite every horrible thing that they did to me,
I wanted to go on living in my country. But the occupiers did everything
they could to change my mind. After my conditional release from prison
(based on Article 522 of the Islamic Penal Code, and after my forced
hospitalizations on a psychiatric ward - a new project by the security
establishment to portray political opposition as insane), I continued to
live in isolation. I found a job with an advertising agency, but a short
while later, my employers told me: "They came here, and they want you
out." I fell in love with a girl and entertained beautiful dreams. But
soon enough they came to talk to her father, scared him by telling him I
was a <saboteur>, and he broke off the relationship. After I was given
the medical leave of absence, for two years I was forced to go every
week to the office of Amin Vaziri, head of Evin Prison's Security
Prisoners' Administration, sign the roster and pledge to go there next
week as well. The two years of my life outside prison were spent under
the Damocles sword of the fear of going back to prison. Nine times, both
before and after I was sentenced, I was summoned to the Intelligence
Ministry's safe house on Golnabi Streer (next to Hosseinyeh Ershad) and
interrogated about details of my life, my family, my job, my personal
relationships, my friends, and relationships that I did not have. All
this happened after I had rejected their every demand to cooperate with
them. In a report to Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court, they had
nothing favorable to say about me, even though I had come back to my
country voluntarily. They wrote that I deserved no extenuation because I
was not cooperating with them. They had wanted me to work with the
Intelligence Ministry in three areas if I didn't want to serve my prison
sentence: to report on the activities of the opposition and journalists,
to communicate with my friends and others in the opposition, and to
gather and deliver information. I refused. Then they wanted me to at
least take part, along with my mother, in a television interview for the
20:30 news program in a park. But I refused this as well.
A Farcical Arrest and Trial
My arrest resembled a kidnapping. I was in cab and as the other
passengers were getting out, two young men entered, handcuffed me,
pulled me out of the cab, pushed my head down and threw me into their
own car. When the car started moving, they handed me my arrest warrant
from Branch 1 of Evin Courthouse. The agent sitting next to me turned on
his camera and filmed me as I was reading it. Right outside Evin Prison,
before entering the compound, the interrogator came into the car and
asked me a few questions. Then they took me directly to the Ministry's
Ward 209, had me wear the detention center's uniform, gave me two
blankets, and showed me my cell. I put the blankets in the cell and was
immediately taken to another room where the questioning started as soon
as I went in. After a few months, they took me to the last floor of the
prison education center (school), got me to wear my own clothes, and sat
me in front of a camera. The interrogators were sitting on one side of
the room, and two young men asking me questions were in front of me,
next to the camera. In that interview, I explained how since adolescence
I’d been curious about injustice and dictatorship in Iran, how my youth
was wasted in revolutionary courts and prisons, why I left Iran and why
I returned. It seemed they were not happy with that interview. After I
was released from Ward 209, I got regular phone calls summoning me to
the Intelligence Ministry's safe house. The last time I went there,
before the trial, an apparently high-level official came and once again
officially asked me to cooperate with the Ministry. He said my prison
sentence would not be executed if I did. Once again I said no. A few
days later my trial took place at Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court.
That day, I was in court all by myself. The trial was a formality, a
sham lasting no more than a few minutes, although there was a recess;
Judge Mashallah Ahmadzadeh left the courtroom and they took me out as
well. A few minutes later Judge Salavati, accompanied by two bodyguards,
entered. They called me back in too. Ahmadzadeh opened a file on the
desk and read a few lines of reports I had written for VoA and Iran
Human Rights, about were about violations of human rights in Iran and
interviews with the families of anti-government protesters who had been
killed. Without referring to any charge that could have had anything to
do with those reports, Judge Salavati turned to me and said I had come
to Iran to as <an informant> and <a spy>. Then he stood up and went
away. So, in a trial that lasted no more than 10 minutes, I was
sentenced to 11 years in prison (five years’ minimum based on Article
134) and a two-year ban from leaving Iran, based on Articles 499, 500
and 610 [of the Islamic penal code]. Without any clear or specific
evidence I was convicted on three counts: <collusion and conspiracy to
commit crimes against national security>, <propaganda against the sacred
regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran> and <membership of an illegal
group.> Branch 36 of the Revolutionary Court of Appeals presided by
Judge Zargar, upheld everything in this verdict, which that was
requested by President Rouhani's Intelligence Ministry.
Intimidation and Harassment Outside Prison
I tolerated all the difficulties of the past five years, fought back and
lived on hope, whether I was in solitary confinement on Ward 209 for the
third time or during that one week when my hands and feet were
handcuffed to the bedposts in Aminabad Psychiatric Hospital, when I
reflected on how I was living the most horrifying days of my life in my
own homeland. This was true even later, when I was hospitalized next to
the most distraught psychiatric patients and subjected to electroshock
therapy. Yes, nine times they used electroshock therapy on me. They'd
anaesthetize me and give an electric shock to my brain so as to wipe my
memories. They were wiped out, but only for a few days. Each time I
triumphed over the nightmare through my faith in justice, regained my
hope in life, and returned to life with indescribable joy.
A Stolen Youth
During the time that I was on medical leave I considered it my moral
duty as a human being to speak to the free media and warn them against
claims by the Islamic Republic officials that Iranians can safely come
back to Iran. I notified them that they might meet the same fate as me.
For this, and for defending the rights of other political prisoners, my
freedom was delayed. I knew I wouldn’t be brave enough to withstand
these threats, the intimidation and the weekly summonses for the rest of
my life. From the ages of 17 to 24, my life had been spent under these
pressures. I'd spent the next 10 years away from my home while I thought
about my country day and night. Then, up until today, I’d spent another
six years of my life in prison or at risk. As a journalist and a human
rights activist, I’d been jailed under the presidencies of Khatami,
Ahmadinejad and Rouhani. One year of these last six years was spent in
solitary confinement in the detention centers of Towhid [the
Anti-Sabotage Joint Committee], the Revolutionary Guards' Ward 2A,
Evin's Ward 240 and the Ministry's Ward 209.
The Islamic Republic ruined the days of my youth, as it did to millions
of others. Days that could have been filled with passion, happiness and
sweetness were spent in prison, doing irreversible damage to my body and
my soul.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/features/136113-kianoosh-sanjari-the-iranian-journalist-who-refused-to-be-silent-or-stay-away/
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