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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 January 15, 2025) 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 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

We all grief for the loss of our sister / daughter of Iran Armita Gevarnand:   Read her updated story here

'War against the No-hijabi women' Update Dec. 20, 2024: Iranian Women Rise Against the New Hijab Law with the Slogan "Woman, Resistance, Freedom" Nov. 13, 2024: hijab-torture clinics

Earlier Stories and more

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

January 8, 2025 - December 28 - 4, 2024
Sisters 4 each other, Sisters 4 All
in continuation of the below resistence of the 3 sisters

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.

Dear reader, let us, apart from all the other news following please read first the most inspiring but alas also most disturbing news.
In other words: Rise more for the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' uprisal. Gino d'Artali
 

January 11 - 9, 2025
Imminent Risk of Execution of Pakhshan Azizi because "I'm Kurdish, I'm a woman"


Iranwire - January 15, 2025 - by Aida Ghajar
<<Tortured to Death: The Story of Ramin Fatehi
<<Every morning, Ramin Fatehi would bring fresh bread to his mother's house in Sanandaj.
It was a simple act of devotion that his sister, Rada, now living in exile in Germany, recalls with tears in her eyes. He loved life - music, dancing, family - everything that made life beautiful. That life was cut short on October 21, 2022, when Ramin died under torture at Sanandaj's Intelligence Detention Center. His death followed a raid by security forces on the Fatehi family home, carried out without a warrant. The day of the raid remains seared in Rada's memory. As agents took her brothers, she ran into the street, her desperate cries echoing through the neighborhood, "They've taken my brothers. They've taken another one of my brothers." The Fatehi family's ordeal is part of the broader crackdown on Iran's "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests. While Ramin was killed, his brother Voria returned from detention bearing signs of severe torture. Rada herself endured days of solitary confinement and interrogation before fleeing to Germany with her daughter. When Rada went to the intelligence office in Sanandaj to inquire about her brothers, she was told to wait. After two hours, she was handed Voria's car keys and told, <Your brothers are our guests tonight.> The next day, as Rada visited her parents' home, her daughter called to inform her that security forces were outside their house. When she arrived, the area was swarming with agents. "My daughter was in shock and terrified. They threw me to the ground. I got up, and someone placed something against my head - definitely a gun - then dragged me to my daughter’s room and threw me onto the bed. He said, <‘I'll blow your brains out right here, and no one will know.'> The interrogator who tortured Rada was also part of the raid on her home and arrested her in front of her frightened daughter. During the interrogations, he repeatedly threatened to harm her daughter, saying, <We'll use her to get to you.> He was known as Hojjati-a tall man with a short beard and a noticeable accent. As Rada sat on a chair in her cell, she overheard the voices of her captors. The men's voices echoed around her, <Prepare the room,> <We'll make her understand,> and <Send her to the open toilet.> All of this was said in Persian. They forced Rada to sign confessions under duress. When she resisted, one of the interrogators ordered, <Break her finger and press it onto the paper. You don't get to refuse.> Hojjati intensified the pressure, telling her, <We've brought your daughter to a cell nearby with two men next to her. Either confess and accept what we say, or you’ll never see her again. Your daughter is an intelligent student, but I'll make sure she doesn't study in Iran. I control the admissions process.> "The first days of interrogation and torture were the worst," Rada recalled. "Later, they softened a little. By the end, it was all about checks and money." The interrogators pressured her to implicate her brother, but Rada refused. The days and nights in solitary confinement under torture felt endless. "I thought, this is my grave - alone, and no one hears your voice. This is the end. During those days, I stopped fearing death because I had already experienced it. I was dead." Rada endured physical and psychological torture until an incident led her to launch a hunger strike in protest, forcing her interrogators to confront her and Voria together in the darkness of the detention center's cells. One day, a judge was brought into another room to meet Rada. When he saw her, he said, <She has to talk,> and left.
That night, Rada was returned to her cell, but she lost consciousness. "They administered something to me, and I fainted. When I regained consciousness, they opened the door, and fresh air hit me. A doctor arrived immediately and examined me. I overheard him inquire, 'Is this the sister who suffered a stroke?' I was utterly shocked. Following this incident, I refused to eat for several days. I embarked on a hunger strike.'" After a few days, her interrogator promised she could see her brother if she ate a few spoonfuls of food. Rada subsequently ended her hunger strike. She was then transferred to another room and permitted to remove her blindfold. She stood mere inches from the wall. Voria was brought into the room, and they were both instructed to remain still and face the wall. Voria was barely able to move. "He dragged himself towards me, sat beside me, and I grabbed his hand. His mouth was slightly askew. The sight was very bad, but seeing him alive gave me energy." Their brief, one-minute encounter ended, and Voria asked to hug Rada. The guards responded with a barrage of insults and threats. However, Rada could no longer contain herself and flung herself into his arms. She said, "I told the interrogator, 'Release my brothers. You can do whatever you want to me.' I didn't know at the time that Ramin was already dead." Rada continued, "In prison, they gave us IVs and forced us to take medication. We weren't allowed to ask questions, and they watched to make sure we swallowed it. A few times, I saw them mix something into the tea. After drinking it, we would feel lethargic."
"This happened to both my brother and me. After we were released, we experienced episodes of sudden unconsciousness for months. We were taken to the hospital several times, even by ambulance. It wasn't from stress - it happened to both of us." Doctors say that in Iranian prisons, benzodiazepines are often used to render prisoners unconscious, coerce confessions, and abuse them. The resulting lethargy helps control both their bodies and minds. In cases of severe trauma, effects such as fainting and memory loss can persist long after release.
Ramin Killed Under Torture
"In my cell, I kept thinking I would hire the best lawyers to help release my brothers once I was free. I never imagined that someone could be tortured to death. How cruel can a human being be? Can someone really kill a defenseless person whose hands and feet are tied? It's beyond comprehension." Rada was held in solitary confinement for 22 days, unaware that her brother Ramin had already been killed. "Thirteen days before my release, they had already killed Ramin," she recalled. "For a long time, I kept telling my mother, 'They're lying. They lied to me, and they're still lying.' I visited his grave, cried, and screamed, but I couldn't and still can't believe it. None of my family has seen Ramin's body. Ramin was braver and stronger than anyone I knew. I can't believe he's gone. I'm still waiting for him." Voria was released on bail one day before Rada. At the moment of his release, he was told of Ramin’s death. He collapsed to the ground, unconscious. The security forces left, and it was the people around him who helped.
The security forces did not return Ramin's body to his family.
They buried him without informing them and forbade any mourning ceremonies. Even during his 40th-day memorial, drones hovered overhead, monitoring the grieving crowd. Rada says that no one in her family has seen Ramin’s body or attended his burial. However, the hospital staff confirmed Ramin's death and described the severe signs of torture on his body. The hospital staff told Rada that the night before his death, Ramin had been brought in for a CT scan due to a serious head injury caused by a heavy object. He was beaten so badly that he could only blink his eyes. The next day, security forces brought his lifeless body to the hospital and claimed he had committed suicide. "How is that possible? In an intelligence office? With all the cameras overhead? It's one thing in a prison, but in the intelligence office, it's impossible," she said. The Islamic Republic never took responsibility for Ramin's death under torture. Instead, they tried pushing the false narrative of <suicide.> This claim echoed similar reports of <suicides> involving other "Woman, Life, Freedom" protest victims, such as Sarina and Nika.

Nika Shakarami
When Ramin's mother learned of his death, she ran barefoot through the streets.
"My mother said, 'When they told me, I ran through the alleys, screaming. People followed me. It was raining. I couldn't even unlock the door when I got home. The keys were in my hand, but I couldn't open it.'" Now, every time it rains, Rada is reminded of that painful day. "Whenever it rains, I’m reminded of my family's grief. We were never allowed to mourn." Rada said, "Losing a brother is something for which no words or sentences can describe. It’s a tragedy - more than tragedy. If I were ever homesick or struggling here in Europe, it would have been better if Ramin were alive."
After Ramin’s killing, security forces repeatedly raided Rada and her daughter's home. During one raid, the two took refuge in an unfinished building across the street. That night, they watched in terror from their hiding place as the lights in their home flickered on. Rada knew then that she had no choice but to leave her home and country behind. The series of events over the past year-including imprisonment, torture, the loss of her brother, and forced migration-continue to haunt Rada. "One day, one of the female interrogators gave me an apple. I kept it beside my cell for two days, simply staring at it. I couldn't eat it; it evoked an awful feeling within me. Even now, two years later, whenever I see an apple, I am reminded of that day and cannot bring myself to buy or eat one. It brings back memories of those times and makes me wonder if that was the day they killed my brother." Despite the immense pain she carries in her body and soul, Rada's hope lies in the downfall of the Islamic Republic. "My hope is that we will destroy them. This is not a wish - it's a must. They must be destroyed. Today, I sit here as a grieving sister mourning my brother, but perhaps another sister will sit in my place tomorrow. I don’t want any sister to suffer as I have." The interview concluded. At Rada's request, we switched off the camera. Tears streamed down her face as she began to recount, in harrowing detail, the torture inflicted upon her by Hojjati, an interrogator from the Sanandaj intelligence office. She asked, "What form of justice could ever compensate for the immense torture I endured and the murder of my brother?"
The daily ritual of enjoying fresh bread, once a cherished symbol of Ramin's love for his family, now serves as a painful reminder of the losses suffered in Iran's struggle for freedom.>>
Source: https://iranwire.com/en/special-features/138120-tortured-to-death-the-story-of-ramin-fatehi/

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