Narges Mohammadi, holding a photograph of Mahsa Amini, at home after her release from Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi has been given temporary medical leave from prison in Iran.
Mohammadi, the Vice President of the Center for Defenders of Human Rights, has been recurrently arrested by the Iranian regime since the mass protests after the disputed 2009 Presidential election. She was imprisoned again in November 2021, with sentences total of 13 years and 9 months.
Her lawyer Mustafa Nili posted, “Based on the advice of the examining doctor, the public prosecutor suspended the jail sentence against Narges Mohammadi for three weeks and she was released from prison.”
Mohammadi, awarded the Nobel Prize in 2023, walked out of Tehran’s Evin prison on Wednesday morning chanting “Woman, Life Freedom”, the slogan of nationwide protests from September 2022.
Her husband Taghi Rahmani said, “She came out in a good state of mind, a combative state despite her very fragile state of health.”
However, Mohammadi’s family and colleagues said the temporary release was “inadequate” and “too little, too late”: “We demand Narges Mohammadi’s immediate and unconditional release or at least an extension of her leave to three months.”
The head of the Nobel Committee, Jorgen Watne Frydnes, noted that the activist’s “condition is severe, most likely cancer”.
We demand, as we have done before, that she is not only released from prison for 21 days for medical treatment, but released forever..
It’s our hope that the regime and the pressure from the outside world, including the Norwegian Nobel Committee, will result in her release one day.
Weeks after the Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, a Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced the laureate to an additional 15 months. She was punished for her opposition to the death penalty, accused of spreading propaganda against the state.
Mohammadi recently had part of a bone in her right leg removed over fears of cancer. She was immediately returned to prison.
Rapper Salehi Freed
Rapper and activist Toomaj Salehi has been released after more than two years in prison and the threat of a death sentence.
Salehi was arrested in October 2022, weeks after the start of the nationwide protests sparked by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, detained and reportedly beaten over “inappropriate attire”.
He was condemned for lyrics such as “Someone’s crime was dancing with her hair in the wind. Someone’s crime was that he or she was brave and criticized….44 years of your government. It’s the year of failure.”
An initial sentence of 6 years and 3 months was raised to the death penalty in April 2024, but an appeals court lifted the threat of execution two months later.
Salehi thanked supporters in a post on Instagram, “For the past two years, you have done for me unpredictable, magnificent and unbelievable things, I am a part of you today.”
Caoilfhionn Gallagher, international legal counsel for Salehi’s family, said in a statement.
Mr. Salehi has long used his powerful art — his rapping, his music, his words — to support the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement and human rights in Iran. For this, the Iranian authorities have targeted him for years, attempting to silence him through arrests, imprisonment, torture, assaults, and even a death sentence.
The world must not look away now: we must ensure Mr Salehi remains free and is never again subjected to the egregious violations of his rights which he has endured over the past 753 days.
A concert in defiance of the new “hijab chastity law”
https://www.radiofarda.com/a/reactions-to-prasto-ahmadi-s-performance-without-compulsory-hijab/33237033.html
Maybe khamenei get lucky and die of heart attack instead of a sword up his butt.
https://x.com/yarrahimehdi/status/1867119598199337076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1867119598199337076%7Ctwgr%5E519171642f87306e191b62820a57a6abe7954939%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiofarda.com%2Fa%2Freactions-to-prasto-ahmadi-s-performance-without-compulsory-hijab%2F33237033.html
Iranian Singer Faces Legal Action for Defiant Online ‘Concert’
https://iranwire.com/en/society/137057-iranian-singer-faces-legal-action-for-defiant-online-concert/
Watching “Rage against the Regime: Iran” episode 2: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0024qcr/rage-against-the-regime-iran-series-1-episode-2
At 31:48, Hamid Esmaelion, an Iranian-Canadian doctor, who lost relatives on Ukrainain airlines Flight 752, asserts that he thinks the downing of the jet was not an error, as admitted, but was deliberate. This conspiracy claim has itself been debunked by the Canadian government: https://www.international.gc.ca/gac-amc/assets/pdfs/publications/flight-vol-ps752/factual_analysis-analyse_faits-en.pdf
On page 8, the forensic report states, “the Forensic Team found no evidence that the downing of Flight PS752 was premeditated”.
Canadian PM, Justin Trudeau, also stated, “”We know this may have been unintentional. Canadians have questions, and they deserve answers”: https://www.france24.com/en/20200109-canada-s-trudeau-says-evidence-shows-iranian-missile-downed-ukraine-jet
Political Prisoner Manouchehr Bakhtiari Suffers Heart Attack in Iran
https://iranwire.com/en/news/136858-political-prisoner-manouchehr-bakhtiari-suffers-heart-attack-in-iran/
“…stressing that while hijab is fundamental under the Islamic codes,…”
NO! hijab is a pillar of the mullah the state which has nothing else to show for all its claims, not islam.
Iranian vice president: Hijab law faces implementation challenges: https://ifpnews.com/iranian-vice-president-hijab-law-implementation-challenges/
“In a televised interview with the IRIB on Wednesday night, Majid Ansari pointed out that the law criminalizes officials of centers where hijab is not observed, making enforcement difficult. He said the ministry responsible for implementing the Chastity and Hijab Law has declared the law “unimplementable in its current form. Ansari, stressing that while hijab is fundamental under the Islamic codes, urged for legal amendments to address the concerns and enable effective implementation.”