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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.
Center for Human Rights in Iran - 20 Nov 2024
<<World Children's Day is Meaningless Without Fighting to Protect the
Most Vulnerable
The children of Iran's ethnic and religious minority communities suffer
an appalling range of rights abuses in all walks of life-most of which
go largely unaddressed by the international community. Typically hailing
from communities in Iran-s less developed provinces struggling with
poverty and oppression, it is the children of these marginalized
communities who are the most vulnerable, the most abused, and the least
protected, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said today, on
World Children's Day. Human rights activists have long known the overall
state of children's rights in the Islamic Republic is grim-Iran has
severe issues for example with child marriage, child labor, and street
children-but the children of minority communities not only experience
these problems at far higher rates, they suffer a myriad of additional
issues stemming from the intense state violence and persecution directed
at these communities. "Who will speak out for Iran's minority children,
the country's silent victims of so many violent crimes and atrocities?"
asked Hadi Ghaemi, CHRI executive director. "The theme for this year's
World Children's Day is 'For every child, every right,' yet in the
Islamic Republic, there are simply no rights for minority children. The
violence and discrimination these oppressed communities face impacts the
children of these communities in catastrophic ways," Ghaemi stressed.
CHRI calls upon the UN and all Member States to prioritize the
protection of Iran's children, especially the children of the country's
ethnic and religious minority communities, and directly and forcefully
address the many severe abuses they face with the Iranian authorities.
Further, the international community, in coordination with Iranian civil
society, should pursue the establishment of an independent investigative
body or fact-finding commission through a resolution in the UN Human
Rights Council to examine the systematic violations of children's rights
in Iran. Such a commission would gather documented evidence regarding
the execution of juveniles, arbitrary detentions, and other forms of
violence against children, providing independent reports for
accountability. Other mechanisms of enforcement should be considered,
such as suspending Iran's membership in relevant UN bodies.
A Civil Rights Activist in Sistan and Baluchistan Speaks Out on the
Plight of Children
A recent conversation CHRI held with a civil rights activist living in
Sistan and Baluchistan, who is unnamed for security reasons, touched
upon the linkages between the deep poverty of this region, Iran's
poorest and most undeveloped province, and the abuses that stem from it.
"The greatest challenge faced by minority children, especially in Sistan
and Baluchistan, is poverty. But it is important to know what this
poverty means. Many people think only of economic poverty as the cause
of the problems in Sistan and Baluchistan. But one of the most important
challenges for girls in many cities in Sistan and Baluchistan is forced
marriage. When there is no educational space for these girls, and no
opportunities to enter society [productively] and build a future, how
can families be convinced to prevent forced marriage?" The activist is
unsparing in highlighting the cost of these forced child marriages: "In
recent years, we have seen many suicide cases among teenage girls in the
province."
In addition to suicides, many child brides who eventually try to flee
abusive forced marriages are then victims of honor killings-an act that
is encouraged by the Islamic Republic's lenient punishments for such
killings. Other Iranian activists have also talked to CHRI about the
many women in Iran's prisons who are serving long sentences for killing
abusive husbands after forced child marriages.
The civil rights activist in Iran also spoke to CHRI about childhoods
taken away by forced labor:
"Many children in Sistan and Baluchistan do not experience childhood, as
they engage in selling fuel along with their fathers or older brothers.
[These are the so-called sukhtbars, who, along with kulbars in the
Kurdish regions, resort to cross-border trade due to lack of any jobs in
these regions, and then are gunned down by border agents.] Many
teenagers whose fathers were killed for trading fuel, or drug
trafficking, were themselves eventually sentenced to long prison terms
or even execution." She also noted the terrible cost to children of the
Islamic Republic's disproportionate application of the death penalty
against minorities. (The Baluch minority, for example, which only
comprises about 5% of the population, accounts for some 29% of the
individuals executed for drug offenses in Iran.) "Children in many areas
of Sistan and Baluchistan learn about executions much, much earlier
because nowhere else in the country are such bitter and inhumane
concepts, such as being killed on the roads or through execution, so
close to the daily life of children."
A Litany of Abuses Faced by Iran's Minority Children:
Lethal state violence against peaceful child protesters: At least 19
Baluchi children were among the more than 100 people killed by state
forces on one day, Bloody Friday, September 30, 2022, in Zahedan, the
capital of Sistan and Baluchistan province. At least 16 Kurdish children
lost their lives during the 2022 "Woman, Life, Freedom" uprising.
Amnesty, meanwhile, reported that over 60% of the children killed in
those protests were from Iran's Baluchi and Kurdish minorities.
Execution of juveniles: Iran is one of the very few countries in the
world that continues to execute children and juvenile offenders-and
these juveniles are often members of minority communities. For example,
arrested for murder when he was only 17, Mehdi Barahouie, a 21-year-old
Baluchi, was executed on October 9, 2024, in Zahedan.
Loss of parents due to state violence: Many minority children lose their
parents due to the disproportionate application of the death penalty
against minorities, the state's disproportionate use of lethal state
force against peaceful protesters in minority regions, and the
imprisonment of minority parents for their religious beliefs (which
especially affects the Baha'i community). The UN's Independent
Fact-Finding Mission on Iran noted the impact on children of the state's
disproportionate violence against minority communities during the
protests: "The impact of the protests on minorities cannot be
overstated. The social fabrics of communities have been frayed. Women
belonging to ethnic and religious minorities experience distinct harms
that are compounded by pre-existing discrimination and violence against
them both as women, as well as by virtue of their status as ethnic and
religious minorities. The impact on children is transgenerational - the
multifaceted harms of which may be expected for decades to come."
Child marriage: Minority children are disproportionally forced into
child marriages, which are legal for girls at age 13 (younger with the
consent of a judge and male guardian). Figures released by the
Statistical Center of Iran showed from March 21, 2022-December 21, 2022,
there were more than 20,000 marriages of girls under 15 years old and
1,085 cases of childbirth in the same age group. Iran has since stopped
publishing information on child marriages and births. Zahra Rahimi,
co-founder of the now disbanded Imam Ali Popular Students Relief
Society, told CHRI: Another fundamental issue is poverty. When [girls]
reach puberty, they are forced by their families to marry in order to
leave home. Poverty and lack of educational infrastructure in deprived
provinces make girls not have the opportunity to continue their
education and forces them to marry at a young age."
Unprotected by the law from domestic violence: In addition to the issue
of honor killings, Iran's laws leave children deeply unprotected from
physical and sexual abuse, and the lack of services available in
minority regions, as well as the lack of language skills or familiarity
with the judicial system, leaves victims from minority regions even more
unprotected.
Inadequate schools: Provinces where minorities dominate have
significantly fewer primary and secondary schools (to the extent that
sometimes students are forced to drop out due to the lack of any nearby
schools), and those that exist are often in a state of disrepair.
Child labor: Minority children also account for a disproportionate
number of children who are in forced labor as child labor is deeply
connected to the poverty that characterizes Iran's minority regions.
There are no official comprehensive figures on the number of child
laborers in Iran, but according to a member of Tehran City Council,
there are 70,000 child laborers in Tehran alone, 80% of whom are not
Iranian nationals. In its July 2023 report, Iran's Parliamentary
Research Center said 8% of the country's children are laborers and 10%
of them do not go to school.
Severe poverty: Iran's minority children typically live in badly
underdeveloped provinces that are neglected by the state, not only
affecting education, health, and other services essential to children's
health and well-being, but also forcing children to assume dangerous
work to help support their families. Many undertake illegal border
courier work; the Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that from
March 2023 to March 2024, at least 15 child kulbars, were shot by the
state forces."
Street children: A disproportionate number of minority children are also
street children, which also increases their risk of being forced into
drug and/or sex trafficking. Lawyer Reza Shafakhah, in an interview with
Shargh newspaper on October 13, 2024, said: "It is not possible for you
to open a curtain and look out the window in the farthest reaches of
Iran and not see a child going through a trash can. The fact that nearly
120,000 street children are active in Iran is a form of child abuse."
Deputy Justice Minister Ali Kazemi said in February 2024, 20,000 child
laborers slept in Tehran's metro during winter.
Iran's Treatment of Minority Children Severely Violates Iranian and
International Law
Iran's treatment of its minority children directly violates multiple
articles in the country's own constitution, as well as its obligations
under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR),
to which Iran is a State Party, and under the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), to which Iran is also a
State Party. The latter states: "Special measures of protection and
assistance should be taken on behalf of all children and young persons
without any discrimination for reasons of parentage or other conditions.
Children and young persons should be protected from economic and social
exploitation."
Iran is also in violation of its obligations under the International
Labor Organization's (ILO) Fundamental Principles, which strictly forbid
child labor.
In addition, the Iranian government's use of violence against peaceful
protesters, which is particularly applied in the regions dominated by
minority communities, as well as its violence against border couriers,
blatantly violates the UN's Basic Principles on the Use of Force and
Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, which explicitly state that the
"intentional lethal use of firearms may only be made when strictly
unavoidable in order to protect life."
Most pointedly, the Islamic Republic is in profound violation of
multiple articles contained within the Convention on the Rights of the
Child (CRC), to which it is a State Party. Among the many violations,
the CRC strictly forbids the executions of juveniles. The government of
Iran has explicitly stated that it will not apply any provision that is
"incompatible with Islamic laws or [domestic] legislation." The Iranian
government also ratified the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children,
Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (2007) but its implementation
severely lacking.
Prominent human rights lawyer Saeid Dehghan, said: "In response to the
systemic violation of children's rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
and its breaches of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (despite
being a signatory), we, as Iranian civil society, must advocate for
practical measures that ensure legal accountability through
international mechanisms, particularly within the framework of the
United Nations."
"Iran's minority children are not just statistics; they are human lives
shattered by violence, poverty, and systemic discrimination. The
international community must ensure Iran's minority children are no
longer forgotten victims," Ghaemi said.>>
Source:
https://iranhumanrights.org/2024/11/atrocities-suffered-by-irans-minority-children-are-largely-ignored-by-world/
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