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Pakshan Azizi


MKG and DFG for journalist Pakhshan Azizi
Jinha - Womens News Agency 1 August 2024
<<Joint statement by MKG and DFG for journalist Pakhshan Azizi
"All people, particularly international organizations, must stand against the unjust decision of the Iranian regime against journalist Pakhshan Azizi," said the joint statement of the journalists’ associations.
News Center- Pakhshan Azizi, Kurdish political prisoner, journalist and women's rights activist, was sentenced to death by the Iranian authorities on July 28,2024. The Mesopotamia Women Journalists' Association (MKG) and the Dicle Fırat Journalists Association (DFG) held a press conference in Amed (Diyarbakır) on Wednesday, calling on all people, particularly international human rights organizations to stand against the "unjust" decision of the Iranian regime. "Journalism is important to report the truth and reality," said Roza Metina, chair of the MKG. "Free media workers always pursue the truth. They never bow down to injustice, the usurpation of the will of the people, arrests and torture. They are the voice of their society with their pens and cameras."
'We condemn the death sentence'
Condemning the death sentence given to journalist Pakhshan Azizi by the Iranian regime, Roza Metina said, "The Iranian regime aims to intimidate everyone demanding freedom with its dirty and hostile policies. It aims to intimidate everyone by using death sentences. As free media workers, we condemn the death sentence against Kurdish woman and journalist Pakhshan Azizi. All human rights defenders should be the voice of Pakhshan Azizi. We call on all people, particularly international human rights organizations, to stand against the unjust decision of the Iranian regime against journalist Pakhshan Azizi." >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/joint-statement-by-mkg-and-dfg-for-journalist-pakhshan-azizi-35465


Female Political Prisoners in Lakan Prison Join the "Tuesdays Against Executions" Campaign
NCRI - Womens committee - 31 July 2024 - in Women's News
<<Female Political Prisoners in Lakan Prison Join the “Tuesdays Against Executions” Campaign
Eight female political prisoners held in Lakan Prison in Rasht, the capital of Gilan province in northern Iran, announced that they joined the hunger strike this Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in opposition to the death penalty. They have thus joined the political prisoners who go on hunger strike in the "Tuesdays against Executions" campaign. In addition to opposing the death sentences for political and non-political prisoners, the female political prisoners in Lakan Prison are specifically protesting the death sentences for Sharifeh Mohammadi and Pakhshan Azizi.

Sharifeh Mohammadi and Pakhshan Azizi
They have also announced that 14 non-political female prisoners in Lakan Prison are at risk of execution and are calling for attention to the situation of these anonymous prisoners and support for them. The female prisoners who joined the "Tuesdays Against Executions" campaign in Lakan Prison are Zohreh Dadras, Zahra Dadras, Forough Samii-Nia, Sharifeh Mohammadi, Azadeh Chavoshian, Jelveh Javaheri, Negin Rezaei, and Shiva Shah-Siah.
The number of prisons across Iran where political prisoners have joined the "Tuesdays Against Executions" campaign has thus reached 18.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2024/07/31/political-prisoners-lakan-prison/


IHD protests death sentences against activists
Jinha - Womens News Agency 31 July 2024
<<IHD protests death sentences against activists outside Iranian Consulate in Istanbul
The Human Rights Association (IHD) protested the death sentences against labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi and journalist Pakhshan Azizi outside the Iranian Consulate in Istanbul, demanding their release.
News Center- The Human Rights Association (IHD) protested the death sentences against labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi and journalist Pakhshan Azizi outside the Iranian Consulate in Istanbul. Saturday Mothers/People, IHD Co-Chair Eren Keskin, Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) Central Executive Board Member Musa Piroglu and many rights defenders attended the protest.
'Execution has become a routine practice of the regime'.

Jina Amini
The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to violate human rights and sentence activists to death, IHD Co-chair Eren Keskin said. "Iranian people elected reformist Masoud Pezeshkian as Iran's new president as a reaction against such patriarchal and feudal practices. Execution has become a routine practice of the regime especially since the "Jin, Jiyan, Azadi" protests that sparked in the country following the killing of Jina Mahsa Amini."
'They were sentenced to death for being members of the Kurdish political movement'
Labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi was sentenced to death on July 4, 2024 while journalist Pakhshan Azizi was sentenced to death on July 23, 2024. "They were sentenced to death for being members of the Kurdish political movement."
'Take a stand against Iran'
Demanding an end to executions in Iran, Eren Keskin said, "As human rights defenders, we think that the authorities of the Republic of Turkiye should use diplomatic channels to prevent these executions. We also call on all human rights defenders all around the world to take a stand against Iran. We call on all human rights organizations, women's organizations, unions and opposition political parties in our region to take a stand in order to prevent the executions that have taken place and will take place in Iran. Execution is a murder committed by the state. We demand the death sentences against Sharifeh Mohammadi and Pakhshan Azizi be reversed and their release." >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/ihd-protests-death-sentences-against-activists-outside-iranian-consulate-in-istanbul-35464

Iranwire - July 30, 2024
<<Women Inmates Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Activist's Death Sentence
Women political prisoners in Tehran's Evin prison have announced their intention to go on a hunger strike as part of their ongoing protest against the death sentence issued to a Kurdish activist. This marks the second major protest action by these inmates following the announcement of the death sentence for Pakhshan Azizi. The news of the strike was shared via jailed human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize awardee Narges Mohammadi's Instagram page. It said the prisoners would join the "No Execution Tuesdays" campaign with the hunger strike. On Saturday, the same prisoners initiated a sit-in protest at Evin prison. Beginning at 7:00 PM, they chanted slogans demanding the cancellation of the death penalty for Azizi. The prisoners had previously gathered en masse in the prison yard to protest against the death sentence. Azizi was convicted of <membership in groups that waged an armed uprising against the Islamic government and whose leaders are involved in rebellion.> In addition to the death sentence, she received a four-year prison term for alleged membership in the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK). The court proceedings, presided over by Judge Iman Afshari, took place on May 28 and June 16, 2024.
The verdict was sent to Azizi's lawyers last week.
She is currently held in Tehran's Evin Prison, where she has reportedly been deprived of phone calls and visitation rights for the past two weeks. In a letter recently published by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Azizi cited multiple instances of torture and harassment during her detention. On August 4, 2023, Iranian Intelligence Forces arrested her in Tehran's Kharazi town, marking the beginning of her current ordeal. Azizi's history of activism dates back to at least 2009 when she was arrested during a Kurdish students' protest in Tehran against executions in Kurdistan.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/132306-women-inmates-launch-hunger-strike-to-protest-activists-death-sentence/

Pakhsan Azizi evined
NCRI - Womens committee - 29 July 2024 - in Women's News
<<Against the Death Penalty: Sit-in of Female Political Prisoners in Evin
From 7 PM on Saturday, July 27, 2024, a group of female political prisoners in Evin Prison staged a sit-in to protest the death penalty and the execution sentences, particularly the death sentence issued for political prisoner Pakhshan Azizi. This sit-in continued until the early hours of Sunday, with the prisoners remaining in the prison yard.
Slogans of the Protesters
The female political prisoners participating in this sit-in chanted slogans such as: "Death to the Execution Regime," "Death to the Dictator," "No to Execution," "Freedom for Political Prisoners," "You are a dictator, I am Arash, Fire Responds to Fire," and "Evin Women's Ward United, Standing Together Until the Death Penalty is Revoked."
Failed Efforts of Prison Authorities
An hour after the sit-in began, the prison’s State Security Force commander and his deputy went to the prison yard and attempted to end the protest. However, the female prisoners insisted on their demands against the death penalty and continued their sit-ins. Last Tuesday, the "No to Execution" strike, which has been ongoing for months, was also in effect in various prisons nationwide.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2024/07/29/against-death-penalty-pakhshan/

NCRI - Womens committee - 25 July 2024 - in Statements
<<Gathering and Protest of Women Political Prisoners in Evin Prison’s Women's Ward
Against the Death Sentence of Political Prisoner Pakhshan Azizi
On Wednesday, July 24, political prisoners in the women’s ward of Evin Prison staged a protest and sit-in in the prison yard following the death sentence issued for Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish political prisoner. Political prisoners in Qezelhessar also declared their support and solidarity with this rightful protest. The brave women political prisoners in Evin chanted slogans including: "Death to the dictator", "First and last word, overthrow, overthrow", "The executioner's noose no longer affects Damavand", "We swear by the blood of our comrades, we stand until the end"... The imprisoned women symbolically set fire to a noose in opposition to executions and chanted: <We stand until the end for the abolition of the death penalty, death to the execution government".
The Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran once again condemns the death sentences issued by the regime's judiciary courts, especially for women, and calls on international human rights and women's rights bodies, particularly the Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran and the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, to take urgent action for the annulment of Pakhshan Azizi's death sentence and her release.
National Council of Resistance of Iran - Women's Committee
25 July 2024>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2024/07/25/protest-of-women-political-prisoners/

Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 24 July 2024
<<Kurdish political prisoner, Pakhshan Azizi, sentenced to death
Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish journalist, social worker, and political prisoner currently imprisoned in Evin Prison, has been deprived of the right to phone calls and family visits. She has been sentenced to death by the Iranian Judiciary on charges of <rebellion.> According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish political prisoner from Mahabad, has been sentenced to death by Branch 26 of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran, presided over by Judge Iman Afshari. She was convicted of <rebellion> on the charge of <Membership in groups that waged an armed uprising against the Islamic government, whose leaders are involved in rebellion.> Additionally, she received a four-year prison sentence on the charge of being a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK). Her case hearings were held on May 28 and June 16, 2024. The mentioned verdict was notified to her lawyers on Tuesday, July 22, 2024. The death sentence for Pakhshan Azizi was issued amid her prolonged deprivation of legal representation and family visits. Additionally, her case proceedings have been conducted through opaque and unjust processes. Hengaw recently published a letter from Pakhshan Azizi in which she reported being subjected to multiple instances of torture and harassment. Additionally, she has been denied the right to visit or call her family for the past two weeks. On August 4, 2023, Pakhshan Azizi was arrested by Iranian Intelligence Forces in the Kharazi town of Tehran. On December 11, 2023, she was transferred from Ward 209 of Evin Prison, which is known as the Ministry of Intelligence's detention center, to the women's ward of the same prison. Previously, Hengaw, citing politically informed sources, reported that several members of Pakhshan Azizi's family were arrested alongside her but were released after a few days. It is worth noting that Pakhshan Azizi was arrested on November 16, 2009, during a protest by Kurdish students in Tehran against the executions of prisoners in Kurdistan. She was subsequently released on March 19, 2010, after four months in detention, upon posting bail of 100 million Tomans.
Subsequently, Pakhshan Azizi left Iran due to pressure and threats from Iranian security institutions. During her research on the situation of women in Iraqi Kurdistan and Syrian Kurdistan, she engaged in social work to improve their conditions.>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2024/07/article-72


Execution Campaign Grows
Iranwire - July 23, 2024
<<Prisoner-Led Anti-Execution Campaign Grows Across Iranian Prisons
The 'No to Execution Tuesdays' campaign, a prisoner-led initiative protesting capital punishment in Iran, has entered its 26th week with growing support. The campaign has now expanded to include prisoners from Urmia, Marivan, Kamyaran, Baneh, and Salmas prisons, according to the letter received by IranWire from inmates at Ghezel Hesar prison. The expansion comes amid a sharp increase in death sentences and executions across the Islamic Republic's prisons over the past few weeks. The campaign, which began in February, aims to draw domestic and international attention to what participants describe as a <gross violation of the right to life> in Iran. In their letter, the Ghezelhesar prisoners expressed alarm over the execution of more than 10 inmates last week, including two political prisoners. They wrote, <While the government cannot respond to the rightful demands of the people, it intends to create terror in society by killing and executing prisoners on various charges, in order to create a roadblock against future protests and uprisings of the oppressed people.> The campaign includes participants from various prisons, including Evin, Ghezelhesar, Karaj Central, Khorramabad, Tabriz, Khoi, Naqdeh, Mashhad, and Saqqez. Campaigners are urging both political and non-political prisoners nationwide to join their cause, aiming to elevate <No to Execution> to a national demand.
The number of executions in Iran reached 853 in 2023, which is the highest recorded since 2015 and marks a 48 per cent increase from 2022 in the aftermath of the Woman, Life, Freedom protests. The spike in death penalties has continued into 2024, with at least 95 recorded executions by March 20, according to Amnesty International.
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/132080-prisoner-led-anti-execution-campaign-grows-across-iranian-prisons/

Jinha - Womens News Agency 22 July 2024
<<Special interrogation team attempt to obtain forced confession from Sharifeh Mohammadi
The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence has reportedly dispatched a special interrogation team to Lakan Prison in Rasht to obtain a forced confession from labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi to justify the death sentence against her.
News Center- The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence has dispatched a special interrogation team consisting of three persons to Lakan Prison in Rasht to obtain a forced confession from labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi due to international outrage against the death sentence. Activists all around the world have expressed their support to the "Campaign to Defend Sharifeh Mohammadi", demanding the death sentence against Sharifeh Mohammadi be reversed and her unconditional release. In recent days, three investigators and special observers from the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence have been dispatched from Tehran to Lakan Prison in Rasht to fabricate a case against Sharifeh Mohammadi, based on obtaining a forced confession, the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reported on Sunday. <The Islamic Republic of Iran tries to show all international organizations and unions, which support Sharifa Mohamedi, that the death sentence given to this labor activist is fair by obtaining a forced confession,> the Campaign to Defend Sharifeh Mohammadi said in a statement. <The authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran try to justify the death sentence with baseless and threadbare accusations. Sharifeh Mohammadi has been tortured to obtain a forced confession by a special interrogation team. Despite the torture and inhuman conditions, she keeps resisting. During the interrogation, Sharifeh Mohammadi denied being a member of any political, armed or unarmed groups. Her lawyer has already appealed to the Supreme Court of Iran to overturn the decision. However, the latest developments show that the Islamic Republic of Iran insists on the execution of this political prisoner.> >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/special-interrogation-team-attempt-to-obtain-forced-confession-from-sharifeh-mohammadi-35412?page=1

Iranwire - July 22, 2024
<<Exclusive: Iran's Secret Campaign to Whitewash Raisi's Legacy
A confidential document from Iran's cabinet, obtained by IranWire, reveals a concerted effort to promote the legacy of former President Ebrahim Raisi before the recent election. The document, signed by Sajad Mirshojaei, Director General of the Government, calls for an extensive propaganda campaign to highlight the <jihadi achievements and actions> of Raisi's administration, which ended after he died in a helicopter crash in May. The directive was sent to government offices across the country two days before the first round of the presidential elections on June 28. It appears to be a calculated move to influence public opinion and shape the narrative around Raisi's tenure as the country prepared to choose a new president. The 86-page report, prepared by the Office of the Government Board and Cooperation of Executive Bodies, paints a rosy picture of Raisi's three-year presidency. It claims unprecedented levels of people's satisfaction with his administration and touts supposed improvements across political, economic, and social indicators. However, these claims starkly contrast with independent assessments of Iran's economic situation under Raisi.
Among the most striking assertions in the report is the claim that Iran's economic growth rate surged from a negative 2.5 percent at the end of Hassan Rouhani's presidency to a positive 5.5 percent under Raisi - an alleged eight percentage point rise over just three years. The document also boasts of a 12 percent rise in foreign investment, a figure that seems highly improbable given the extensive US sanctions and near-complete suspension of trade relations with Europe during this period. Perhaps most notably, the report claims a 14 percent decrease in currency rates, particularly concerning the US dollar. However, this assertion is easily contradicted by publicly available data showing that the value of the US dollar against the Iranian rial more than doubled during Raisi's presidency, rising from around 28,000 tomans to over 57,000 tomans. Mostafa Pourmohammadi, a former ally of Raisi and fellow member of the controversial <Death Committee> that executed thousands of political prisoners in 1988, stated during his campaign that if Raisi were alive, he would not have continued on the same path. The push to glorify Raisi's legacy comes against a backdrop of significant economic hardship for many Iranians. Independent non-governmental statistics paint a grim picture, indicating that during Raisi's presidency, unemployment and inflation led to an unprecedented increase in poverty levels, with an additional 30 percent of Iran's population falling below the poverty line. The document instructs government officials and governors to focus on specific talking points when discussing Raisi's presidency. These include portraying him as a <man of the people,> praising his efforts to break monopolies in senior management circles, touting supposed successes in currency management and health infrastructure development, and highlighting claims of reduced unemployment and increased foreign investment. Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, had previously praised Raisi's performance, suggesting his accomplishments had not been sufficiently publicized. The new propaganda push appears as a direct response to Khamenei's comments, aiming to cement a positive legacy for Raisi as the country moves forward under a new president.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/politics/132033-exclusive-irans-secret-campaign-to-whitewash-raisis-legacy/


Center for Human Rights in Iran - 22 July 2024
<<Pakhshan Azizi, a Political Prisoner Incarcerated in Evin Prison: "For the Central Authority, We Are Small, We Don't Count, but for Their Decrees, We Are the Heaviest and Greatest."
Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish political prisoner from Mahabad, who was arrested in Tehran last year and is now incarcerated in Evin Prison, has written a letter titled "Denying the Truth and Its Alternative," which Hengaw Organization for Human Rights has obtained. In it, she recounts her arrest and torture by security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, writing, "I was hanged by the interrogators many times."
The full text of this letter, published for the first time by Hengaw, is as follows:
Denying the Truth, and Its Alternative
From the tender years of childhood, she learned the struggle for survival through the stories and lullabies of a mother who had borne life's hardships to the very marrow of her bones. With her mother's soothing voice imparting the essence of life and freedom, she grew and matured. For a long time, day and night blurred into one in her relentless quest to stay alive, to find a way of being, and beyond that, to discover the manner of being. On the peak of a scorching summer, about 20 people stormed in, wielding the state’s intimidation tactics, believing they had apprehended a terrorist (the same terrorist for whom public intimidation is one of the pillars!). With hands tied behind her back and a gun held to her head, the 17-year-old, who was seeing her aunt for the first time in ten years, was thrown to the ground along with three other family members. Her captors mounted upon her and her family with a smirk on their faces as a sign of power and triumph. Scenes of the massacre and the tearing apart of thousands of Kurdish Syrian families passed before her eyes like a tragic film. A race between life and death was underway. In extreme physical weakness, she clung to the walls of her solitary cell to keep from falling. The very walls of the cell where she had been detained in 2009 for the same charges "being Kurdish" and "being a woman". She could hear her father's coughing from Ward 3, he had recently been operated on for a cancerous tumor and he had suffered a stroke, and she worried about the mental and physical state of her other two family members.
On the first day of interrogation, they offered to quietly settle everything without judicial proceedings!...
She was hanged multiple times during interrogation. They buried her ten meters underground and brought her out again, portraying her as socially desperate and as a failure. Historical memory is replete with this incident. From childhood, she had been branded as a separatist and as the second sex, never recognized as a citizen. For the central authority, we are small, we don't count, but for their decrees, we are the heaviest and greatest.
Again, during interrogation, her social desperation and her failure were pointed out to her.
A human being is defined by their gender (the first dimension of their perception), their language, their culture and art, their management, their freedom and way of life, and, more generally, their ideology. When any of these aspects of life are destroyed, or aborted, there is no place left for a human life. If you abort the free will of a woman as a dignified human being, there is no place for a free life, and this signifies a decline from human-moral-political standards. When living according to one's own identity is stripped of its meaning, it takes a defensive form, thus leading to rebellion.
The chair is repeatedly beaten against. The insults, humiliations, and threats filled the room. She is in her worst physical and psychological conditions resulting from prolonged hunger strike and five months in solitary confinement (the most horrific white torture), alongside historical and identity oppressions. Tortures that are a tiny drop in the sea of history, the clenched fists of the interrogator as a statesman flaunting his authority each time, the shout that resounds, why do you deny the truth?! The greatest social truth, that is, the woman, her identity, being Kurdish, life and freedom, has been denied, what truth and what denial?! The authoritarian, gender-based, and religious fundamentalist mindsets are themselves the cause of the social, political, economic, and cultural crisis, and naturally, what is the cause cannot be the solution. It is the people themselves who have the necessary sociopolitical will and consciousness to overcome the crisis. Denying the truth of the women, Kurds, and all marginalized communities is to fall into historical distortion and the greatest denial of truth. It is not only the Kurd who has issues; a greater issue is at play. The difference between the center and the margin is in one "K," symbolizing the denial of truth, and that denial is embedded in the center. Erasing the problem statement instead of solving it can never be the solution. The annihilation of the collective potential of women and marginalized communities out of fear is a threat! Democracy and politics, however, should never fear the realities of a challenging society, rich in historical memory of genocide and denial.
In a cell she has been alone with for months, with frequent bleeding and continuous hunger strikes, her health is in critical condition. Besides wearing out her force in order to extract information, is there anything else being done there?! She repeats aloud to herself, a small drop in a vast sea whose flow is inevitable. She massages her legs to stand up. She rises, falls, it's not unpredictable, we have started walking with these rise and falls. This is the meaning of our life, the pain that doesn't kill, makes a human stronger. We have felt, lived, the life on the margin of existence and non-existence with all our being. The first corpse she saw was Khadija, whose hands were tied by her husband and brother, and she was set on fire. She vowed never to stop defending women's rights. Thousands of women and children saw their men beheaded before their eyes in ISIS attacks, taken captive, and raped. The culture of rape that is imposed on women, mothers with infants at their breasts, whose milk had dried up. Barefoot children, hundreds of them, perished against the rocks of Shingal , which was reflected in all the world’s media. A crime against humanity that cannot be fully studied even by writing hundreds of books. And elsewhere, in Kobani and... dozens of women and children charred, burned in Turkish airstrikes on Rojava, their bodies torn apart by ISIS attacks.
She wakes up, unable to stand, vomits, a historical vomit.
Forcibly seated, the threats, and humiliations resume. "Why did you go to Syria? Why didn't you go to Europe?!"
The question is repeated, revealing a clear attraction and pull towards the West. Are they talking about their dreams, or are they being drawn toward what they long for?! After the failure and frustration of your 2009 case due to the stifling political-social atmosphere, I distanced myself miles from my homeland (where I had the embrace of a mother). The meaning of life had become meaningless. I left to go to a place that was mine, too (as you said, Syrian Kurdistan is ours, Turkish Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan are ours). So I didn't go anywhere apart from my place and my own! The beginning of a new chapter for the Middle East, especially working in war refugee camps, which could be the greatest ethical and conscientious service for a community that had been oppressed for years. An aid worker duty that, by crossing borders, becomes revolutionary, were you also there?!
The voice rises, whoever is there, is a member of the PKK?!!
A humanitarian aid worker approach beyond oppression was adopted with a non-scientific, objectivist view devoid of essentialism. Labeling this as organizational, based on a few photos (in the height of the revolution, you see weapons in the hands of women, the elderly, and youth in every home, neighborhood, camp), is your wrong understanding of the issue. I believe in revolutionizing people's mentality and realm of senses first, and pursuing structural changes as the next step. Within the revolution, naturally, characters are built and formed. Betrayal and heroism become more prominent in fulfilling social-political responsibilities because they take place in the heart of the social issues. But your work is different. Adopting a democratic and systematic approach and rebuilding an ethical-political society within civil and humanitarian activities leads to more tangible solutions with higher practical value.
Local differences must be accepted; this does not equal separatism.
The system for revolutionizing mentality leads its own way. Democratizing society through democratizing the family to overcome gender bias, democratizing religion to overcome religious bias (not anti-religion), democratizing all existing institutions to prevent authoritarianism, and this is a shared theoretical construct without falling into the trap of dictatorship and cleansing the authentic traditions of the region’s nations, which are a significant part of their identity and existence. All my activities and efforts have been in the direction of serving and fulfilling my historical duty towards my lived experiences and historical suppressions. I firmly believe that the right path to achieving a democratic society is essentially through adopting a democratic approach to construct an ethical-political society where people themselves deliberate on social issues, make them their concerns, and find solutions. Maximum people's participation in solving society’s problems will ensure social cohesion and the way out of the crisis, and this is the essence of living with the feminine knowledge that achieving democracy will lead to achieving freedom.
Pakhshan Azizi
July 2024 Evin Prison>>
Source:
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2024/07/article-69
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