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Manifest - Oct 26, 2025
Slaughterhouse Rape

Manifest - Start August 31, 2025
Matriarchism is alive and kicking
UPDATE with New Story: Sept 19, 2025:
Tunisian women react to gender remarks: A consequence of patriarchal mentality
Earlier stories embedded:
Sept 10, 2025: Rûken Nexede on ‘Jin Jiyan Azadî’: Philosophy of freedom, equality
And “How Fiercely We Cling to Life” – A Prison Letter from Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee

Manifest - Axis of Evil - J´Accuse :-)
August 8 025

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

Editors' info: About a possible change of the name of the outlet:
and no, the URL www.cryfreedom.net will not change in this. Too much hassles and as such the outlet
is too well known to run that risk. Still, to enhance the content of it the
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´Woman, Life, Freedom - MENA News Agency
covering the news from the Middle East and North Africa and covering all the Arabic muslim world.
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 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

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 Nov 3, 2025

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 18, 2025 Full story of the Third anniversary of Jina Amini´s death 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   & Actual news:  Generation Z Leads Hijab Rebellion on Tehran’s Streets and Earlier Stories and more

Sisters 4 each other - Sisters 4 All
August 21 - 16, 2025
Injustice against one activist
is injustice against all activists
UPDATE June 22, 2025
Narges Mohammadi - with war there cannot be democracy
and May 28 - 6 and April 17 - March 16, 2025 and earlier reports
  UN-investigation demanded - A Global Call for Solidarity and the sanctity of life
Actual news of the
continues resistance of the

Sisters 4 each other, Sisters 4 All
Narges Mohammadi: "Tyranny will fall"
Pakhshan Azizi: "You dictator, I am Arash, fire responds to fire,"
Sharifeh Mohammadi: "Finally, one day, I will sing the song of victory from the summit of the mountain, like the sun. Tomorrow belongs to us"
Varisha Moradi: "Resistance is life"
 in continuation of the resistance of the 4 sisters and others
Earlier reports
and
read all their previous fights

 When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
 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.

Symbol of resistance of Iranian women
Narges Mohammadi - Jina Amini : "With war there cannot be democracy"

Jina Amini Lives On


Zahra Shahbaz Tabari
Iranwire - Nov 3, 2025 - By Roghayeh Rezaei
{Iranian Woman Sentenced to Death After 10-Minute Trial
The evidence against Zahra Shahbaz Tabari consisted of a piece of fabric bearing the slogan “Women, Resistance, Freedom”

Jina Amini
and an audio recording stored on her phone that was never sent to anyone. For that, according to documents obtained by IranWire, the 67-year-old retired electrical engineer has been sentenced to death. Tabari was arrested on April 17 when five security agents forced their way into her home in northern Rasht without a warrant. They ordered her and her daughter to sit with their hands on their knees while they confiscated phones, computers, tablets, and other electronic devices. Then they took Tabari away. Seven months later, after a 10-minute video conference trial plagued by audio problems, she was sentenced to death in Lakan Prison on charges of “armed rebellion through membership in the terrorist group Monafeqin” - the Islamic Republic’s term for the People’s Mojahedin Organization (MEK), an opposition group.
Her case is the latest example of Iran’s increasingly broad application of capital punishment against dissidents, particularly in the aftermath of the nationwide Woman, Life, Freedom protests that erupted in 2022 following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody. Tabari spent more than three decades working as an electrical engineer and sustainable energy specialist for the Gilan Electricity Administration. She earned her degree in electrical engineering from Isfahan University of Technology and a master’s in sustainable energy from Borås University in Sweden. She retired two or three years ago. Tabari has two children: a daughter in her late 20s who lives in Iran and a 35-year-old son, Soroush Samak, who lives in Sweden. This was not her first encounter with Iranian authorities. In May 2022, she was arrested and held in temporary detention for three months on charges of “propaganda against the Islamic Republic.”She was released with an electronic ankle monitor, which she wore for a year while paying a fine.
The second arrest was far more severe.
“They knocked on the door and forced their way in, telling my sister and mother to sit in a corner with their hands on their knees,” Samak told IranWire. “They searched the house, took mobile phones, computers, iPads, and all electronic devices, and arrested my mother.” That night, Tabari managed a brief phone call to tell her family she was being held in Lakan Prison. She spent a month in solitary confinement under interrogation before the 12-day war in June delayed her case proceedings. The trial itself, held via video conference at Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court of Rasht, lasted only 10 minutes. The presiding judge, Mohammad Ali Darvish Goftar, is the son of Ahmad Darvish Goftar, known as Gilan’s “death judge.” In handwritten notes her son provided to IranWire, Tabari described severe technical problems during the hearing. “In court, I faced sound disruption,” she wrote. “When I objected, I was connected to the court by a desk phone. The judge asked only one question: ‘What is your final defense?’ I answered, but it wasn’t recorded correctly in the case. The whole thing took less than ten minutes before he issued a death sentence.” According to her account, the death sentence was issued on October 4, three days before she even received the court documents to review. When she finally got the case file on October 7, she wrote objections throughout, but the sentence had already been finalized at 9:20 that morning. Samak said his mother had no appointed lawyer at the time of sentencing. “They just casually held a ten-minute video conference trial,” he said. “They were laughing with each other in court and issued her a death sentence. This is the value of life under the Islamic Republic.”
The charges against Tabari rest on two pieces of evidence that her family and legal experts say fall far short of justifying capital punishment. The first is the fabric bearing the slogan “Women, Resistance, Freedom” - a rallying cry from the 2022 protests. Interrogators claimed she displayed it somewhere, though Tabari questioned whether the slogan itself was even anti-government and demanded evidence of when and where this allegedly occurred. The second piece of evidence is an audio file on her phone. “A voice message that was on my phone,” Tabari wrote. “It was recorded in a corner of the house and wasn’t sent anywhere. How can that be evidence of baghi and grounds for a death sentence?” Baghi translates to “transgression,” “assault,” or “rebellion.” In Islamic jurisprudence, it refers to armed uprising against what the government deems a just authority. Article 287 of Iran’s Islamic Penal Code defines baghi as occurring when “a group conducts an armed uprising against the foundation of the Islamic Republic of Iran system” and uses weapons, punishable by execution. Legal experts note that baghi charges are subject to strict conditions under Iranian law. The action must aim to overthrow the Islamic Republic system, must be carried out by a group in an organized manner, and requires the possession and intent to use weapons. Mousa Barzin, a jurist and legal advisor to IranWire, called the charges against Tabari “baseless” and her death sentence “unjust and illegal.” “Baghi means a group with weapons pours into the streets, takes over offices, and tries to overthrow the government through armed action,” Barzin said. He added, "It must be asked that regardless of what level her cooperation with the Mojahedin organization was, in which armed operation was she arrested, or in which armed operation did she play a role, or was she behind the scenes?” Tabari’s case fits a broader pattern of baghi charges leading to death sentences, especially since the 2022 protests.
 
Varisheh Moradi and Pakhshan Azizi
Varisheh Moradi and Pakhshan Azizi, two Kurdish political prisoners in Evin Prison, were previously sentenced to death on the same charge by Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court under Judge Abolghasem Salavati.

Sharifeh Mohammadi
In Rasht, death sentences on baghi charges were also issued for Sharifeh Mohammadi, a labor activist, and Peyman Farahavar, a poet and street vendor.
Mohammadi’s sentence was issued by Ahmad Darvish Goftar, the father of Tabari’s judge, while Farahavar’s came from Mohammad Ali Darvish Goftar himself.
Last week, lawyer Amir Raisiyan announced that Mohammadi’s sentence had been overturned and reduced to 30 years in prison. Samak said his mother endured psychological torture during interrogations, including threats against her children. “There was a lot of threat and intimidation,” he said. “They threatened us indirectly. They accused a 67-year-old retired woman of having weapons." They told her they’d cause problems for her children if she didn’t confess. My sister still goes everywhere with my father.” Although Tabari has no chronic illnesses or heart disease, her son said she has visibly deteriorated. “My sister said she’s lost weight, her strength has decreased, and her face has become thinner,” Samak said. The psychological toll has been even greater. After seven months, Samak finally spoke with his mother by phone last Friday. “As soon as she heard my voice, she burst into tears,” he said. Samak compared his mother’s plight to that of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet-era dissident arrested for criticizing Joseph Stalin in a personal letter. “When they came for me, I finally realized how bad things were,” Samak said, paraphrasing Solzhenitsyn.“Now it’s the same with my mother. When they come for a 67-year-old woman who isn’t a political activist or member of any organization, you realize that all Iranians are in the execution queue and one day the noose will fall around all our necks.” He added that his mother is not a member of the People’s Mojahedin Organization and condemned any attempt by political groups to exploit her case. “If the Mojahedin wants to take advantage of this case and use my mother’s name, we condemn it,” he said. “My mother is a victim of political collusion.” “She is a 67-year-old retired woman. The evidence, charges, and documents presented against her are insufficient and inadequate to make such charges and issue such a sentence.” Barzin, the legal expert, agreed. “From experience, we know that individuals in these cases are often victims of scenario-making and case fabrication by security agencies,” he said. As Tabari awaits her fate in Lakan Prison, her son’s words underscore the human cost of Iran’s judicial system. “My mother is one drop in this sea of blood that the Islamic Republic has created,” Samak said.} Source: https://iranwire.com/en/women/146016-iranian-woman-sentenced-to-death-after-10-minute-trial/


Zahra Shahbaz Tabari 2
NCRI - in Articles, Women's News - Oct 30, 2025
{The Son of Zahra Tabari told The Sun: My hero mum is not afraid to die
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 – The Sun, the British daily, published an exclusive interview with Soroush Sammak, 35, the son of Zahra Tabari, a 67-year-old political prisoner in Iran who has been sentenced to death. Excerpts of this interview follow:
My hero mum is going to be executed by ruthless Iranian regime but she’s not afraid to die…
The son of a woman sentenced to death by Iran’s merciless regime after a sham 10-minute hearing has told how his courageous mum is not afraid to die. Political prisoner Zahra Tabari, 67, faces being sent to the gallows on trumped-up charges amid an alarming surge in executions in the rogue nation…. But Zahra’s brave son Soroush Samak said the Iranian people are no longer afraid of the merciless regime as he issued a plea to Western governments to intervene….
The Son of Zahra Tabari told The Sun: My hero mum is not afraid to die
Soroush, 35, told The Sun: “This knife has lost its edge; these death sentences only fuel the people’s anger. “My mother is not afraid to die, and we are proud of her courage. Shame on those who have imprisoned the people.” “She is an intelligent individual with wide-ranging knowledge and professional experience — a bold, informed, and conscious woman whose bravery is unmatched. That is why they want to break her, because the clerical regime fears women like her….” Zahra’s heartbroken son, who lives in Sweden, said: “I have heart palpitations with cold sweat – agitated, worried, and at the same time deeply angry. “My mother told me she has 10 days to appeal, and we are searching for a lawyer to take her case. “As long as our mother remains in the custody of this regime, we have no peace of mind. Each day is spent hoping for her release and fearing her loss. “She is an intelligent individual with wide-ranging knowledge and professional experience — a bold, informed, and conscious woman whose bravery is unmatched. That is why they want to break her, because the clerical regime fears women like her….” Alongside Zahra, 17 more political prisoners fear for their lives as campaign groups beg for help from the international community.
Soroush said: “The regime has shown that it rejects any notion of justice. We have no trust in its judicial system. “This is a medieval regime, and we strongly condemn its treatment of political prisoners. “Our demand is the release of all intellectual, ideological, religious, ethnic, and political prisoners — all of them must be freed unconditionally, and the death sentences must end. “The sharp rise in executions in recent years is deeply alarming. But we have the ability to push back against the regime by strengthening solidarity among the people to increase pressure — and we must act quickly. “This regime has shown it only understands the language of decisiveness and firm stance. “My appeal to the British government and other Western governments, including Sweden — where she earned her Master’s degree — is to make all trade and diplomatic relations with Iran’s ruling dictatorship conditional to halting executions of political prisoners and securing their unconditional release. “This is the only way to compel the regime to stop its crimes.”
Notes:
Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, who holds a master’s degree in Sustainable Energy from a Swedish university, was arrested in April at her home in Rasht by Iranian security forces. According to her family, her only “crime” was “supporting the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI)” and possessing a piece of fabric bearing the slogan “Woman, Resistance, Freedom” and an unpublished voice message. Her trial reportedly lasted less than ten minutes, held without legal representation or a chance to defend herself, ending with a death sentence. Zahra Tabari is currently being held in Lakan Prison in Rasht and has only ten days to appeal the verdict.} Source: https://wncri.org/2025/10/30/zahra-tabaris-son-my-hero-mum-not-afraid/


Sharifeh Mohammadi
Iranwire - Oct 30, 2025
{Sharifeh Mohammadi’s Death Sentence Commuted to 30 Years in Prison
Iran’s judiciary chief has commuted the death sentence of imprisoned labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi to 30 years in prison. Mohammadi’s lawyer, Amir Raesian, said the head of the Islamic Republic’s judiciary reduced the sentence by one degree, though he vowed to continue pursuing a full acquittal of the “rebellion” charges against her. “Fortunately, the danger of tragedy has been averted for now, but we are still seeking a retrial or the application of Article 477 so that her conviction will be overturned and she will be acquitted of the charge of rebellion,” Raesian said. Mohammadi, a workers’ rights advocate, was arrested by security forces in the northern city of Rasht on December 5, 2023. On July 4, 2024, Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court sentenced her to death on charges of ‘baghi’ - rebellion against the state. Judge Ahmad Darvish Goftar based the conviction on evidence that included anti–death penalty pamphlets, materials supporting detained women’s rights activists found on Mohammadi’s computer, and her membership in a Telegram channel. Iran’s Supreme Court initially overturned the death sentence, but the same Revolutionary Court branch reinstated it upon review earlier this year. The judiciary chief’s commutation marks the second reversal in the case. According to court documents, authorities accused Mohammadi of attempting to “overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran” through alleged membership in opposition groups. Legal experts have identified multiple contradictions in the verdict. Mohammad Oliaifard, a lawyer who reviewed the case, criticized the ruling for relying solely on intelligence reports without supporting documents.} Source: https://iranwire.com/en/women/145940-sharifeh-mohammadis-death-sentence-commuted-to-30-years-in-prison/


Maryam Akbari-Monfared
Iranfocus - Oct 30 2025 - By Hoshang Amiri
{Iran’s Regime Raises Pressure on Families of Political Prisoners
On the morning of Saturday, January 18, 2025, two notorious senior judges of Iran’s regime, Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh, were killed in the Supreme Court. State media announced that the killer was Farshid Asadi, a 31-year-old janitor at the Supreme Court. Only one day after the killing of Razini and Moghiseh, early the next morning, agents of the Ministry of Intelligence raided the home of the Akbari-Monfared family and arrested Amir Hassan, the family’s 23-year-old son. He was subjected to severe torture for 24 days, particularly during the first four days, until the Ministry of Intelligence arrested his father, Mohammad Ali Akbari-Monfared, on January 21. Mr. Akbari-Monfared, who contracted polio in childhood, is disabled in both legs. Despite also suffering from severe heart disease and four strokes—including one stroke that, even after several years, has left the right side of his body paralyzed—he has been unable to leave his home in recent years. Nevertheless, the Ministry of Intelligence accused him and his son of supplying a weapon to his cousin once removed, Farshid Asadi (the Supreme Court janitor), or of carrying out “terrorist operations” on behalf of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) is the largest Iranian opposition group. Over the past decades, Iran’s regime has executed 120,000 of its members and supporters. He is currently hospitalized in Shahr-e Rey, where doctors have considered amputating his leg due to an infection caused by the harsh and unsanitary conditions in the Greater Tehran Prison. Although nine months later Amir Hassan, his father Mohammad Ali, and their two co-defendants—Arghavan Fallahi and Bijan Kazemi—were acquitted of charges of involvement in the killing of judges Raezani and Moghiseh, Amir Hassan was subjected to severe physical and psychological torture to force a confession. He spent six months in solitary confinement. Four days later, the interrogators brought his father to see him. They tried to force Amir Hassan to confess, but when he refused, they removed his blindfold. Mr. Akbari-Monfared was sitting in a wheelchair, and the torturers pointed a gun at his head, threatening, “If you don’t confess, we will kill your father.” Amir Hassan refused to give in to the threats. In front of his father, they beat him, tied his legs, and hung him upside down for two hours, repeatedly kicking him in the stomach. Mr. Akbari-Monfared previously served eight months in prison during the 2000s. He is distantly related to Farshid Asadi, the man said to have shot the two notorious Supreme Court judges, as well as to two other political prisoners, Maryam Akbari-Monfared and Reza Akbari-Monfared, who are his cousins. Both Maryam and Reza were sentenced to 17 and 10 years in prison respectively for seeking justice for their family members executed by the regime. Maryam Akbari-Monfared has spent 17 years in prison without a single day of leave. In recent years, the main approach of Iran’s regime security forces in dealing with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) has been to arrest and fabricate cases against individuals who were either previously, during the 2000s, accused of supporting or belonging to this organization, or those related by family ties to its members. Ali Younesi, the son of Mir Youssef Younesi—a political prisoner of the 2000s—was arrested in March 2020 and, after months of uncertainty, sentenced to 16 years in prison. Ali was only 19 years old at the time of his arrest. He was a gifted student at Sharif University of Technology and a gold medalist in the 2017 International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad. Similarly, 25-year-old Arghavan Fallahi was arrested during the nationwide protests of 2022, along with her father, a former political prisoner, and her brother.
The Entire Family Was Arrested; Nothing Is Left for Them
The arrests at the Akbari-Monfared household did not end with Amir Hassan and his father. Sometime later, agents came to arrest the family’s daughter, and two weeks after that, they returned to detain the eldest son. Fifty-eight-year-old Mohammad Ali Akbari-Monfared is currently in a hospital, handcuffed and shackled, under the watch of two armed guards. To pressure Amir Hassan, the regime is keeping him among drug traffickers, thieves, and criminal inmates. The Iranian regime intends to break him through unbearable torture and force him to confess to what they demand. He once went on a hunger strike, but the head of the Greater Tehran Prison came and threatened him, saying, “We’ll beat you so badly that you won’t be able to stand up for a week.” The father and son have no lawyer, as the judiciary refuses to allow any attorney access to their case. Despite the lack of any evidence against them, they remain unlawfully detained in prison. Families of political prisoners have repeatedly been warned that if a human rights lawyer or an independent attorney takes their case, it will “cause trouble” for them. Nine months of preliminary investigation for this case is excessively long. Through such prolonged and fabricated cases against families of political prisoners, Iran’s regime seeks to intimidate society. Surrounded by severe social crises and international isolation, the regime sees the suppression of the opposition as its only means of survival.} Source: https://iranfocus.com/human-rights/55813-irans-regime-raises-pressure-on-families-of-political-prisoners/

NCRI - in Women's News - Sept 25, 2025
{Maryam Akbari Monfared: Continued Denial of Medical Care in Qarchak Prison
Maryam Akbari Monfared, a resistant political prisoner held in Qarchak Prison, Varamin, remains deprived of access to specialized medical treatment. This comes despite explicit directives from the Legal Medicine Organization, which stressed the urgent need for her to undergo daily physiotherapy and chiropractic sessions.
Medical specialists warn that such treatment is vital to alleviate her chronic back and knee pain and to prevent worsening leg numbness and mobility disorders. Without appropriate medical intervention, she could be deemed “unfit to serve her sentence.” Nevertheless, Qarchak prison authorities have refused to facilitate her daily transfer for treatment, citing a lack of resources, and instead suggested that she petition the presiding judge. Although she submitted the request two weeks ago, no response has been issued to date. Previously, forensic doctors also determined that Akbari Monfared required urgent back and knee surgery. However, prolonged neglect by prison officials has intensified her pain and increased the risk of urinary incontinence and permanent nerve damage. Having spent more than 15 years behind bars, Maryam Akbari Monfared is one of the longest-imprisoned female political prisoners in Iran, second only to Zeinab Jalalian who is serving life sentence. Her family, too, has long been a target of state repression: two of her brothers were executed in 1981 and 1984, and her younger brother and sister were executed during the 1988 massacre. Maryam Akbari Monfared, arrested in 2009 on politically motivated charges and sentenced to a lengthy prison term, has already served her initial 15-year sentence, which officially ended in November 2024. Nevertheless, she now faces an additional two-year prison sentence as well as several new cases brought against her. These fresh charges—such as “propaganda against the state” and “insulting the Supreme Leader”—stem from her continued efforts to expose human rights violations and the inhumane conditions inside Iranian prisons.} Source: https://wncri.org/2025/09/25/maryam-akbari-monfared-denial-of-medical-care/

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