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August 5, 2024

Persistent Brave Resistance by Women Prisoners in Iran, Calls for Broader Actions and International Solidarity

August 5, 2024

The IEC is sharing the following snapshots of resistance by prisoners, students, and others in Iran and of international solidarity.

Hear the Women Political Prisoners in Evin, Chanting and Banging!

Prisoners of Evin Women's ward held all-night sit-in protests in the prison yard on July 27, which was their second (and not their last) overnight sit-in in a week, and from 9 pm till midnight they chanted their demand that the IRI end executions.

This IEC video, below, uses one of several audio files posted on social media; the main slogans heard in the different files, translated from Farsi to English by IEC Volunteers, are:

  • No to threats, No to repression, No to execution!
  • Political Prisoners Must be Freed!
  • We may give up health, we may give up life, but we do not give up on emancipation!
  • The Execution State must be Destroyed! The Islamic Republic will be Destroyed!
  • Kurdistan will be the Graveyard of Fascists! Kurdistan is the light in the eye of Iran.
  • Jin Jian Azadi (Woman, Life, Freedom)! Freedom is our right! Unity is our power!
  • We swear by the blood of our comrades that we will resist to the end!
  • We Stand United to End Executions!
  • The Islamic Republic is a weakling. We will not let the IRI rest.
  • Sharifeh Mohammadi, Pakhshan Azizi.
  • Women’s ward at Evin in one voice, with one oath, until the annulment of execution, we stand till the end.

Video: IEC. Artwork from social media has been added to illustrate the prisoners’ spirit.

Note that when these prisoners refuse to return to the ward, they are not only locked out of all sources of water, sanitation, and rest, they also risk retaliation by prison authorities ranging from beatings, solitary confinement, refusal of phone calls, denial of visitations and urgent medical care, additional charges and prison time. Every chant you hear is a courageous resounding refusal to back down.

Student Organizations in Iran Call for Mobilizations: “We shout along with the women activists in Evin Prison”

Burn The Cage reposted this call by at least 20 student organizations in Iran calling on people worldwide on August 10 and 11 to elevate the struggle to free four women activists falsely accused of “armed rebellion” and a stop to all executions in Iran, echoing the call from Evin Women’s Ward.

Four women in danger of execution, left to right: Sharifeh Mohammadi (labor organizer), Varisheh Moradi (Kurdish activist), Nasim Gholami Simiyari (WLF Uprising protester), Pakhshan Azizi (Kurdish activist and social worker). 20 logos of student organizations endorsing this call to action. Collage: Isfahan.uni

The IEC is sharing the following snapshots of resistance by prisoners, students, and others in Iran and of international solidarity.

Hear the Women Political Prisoners in Evin, Chanting and Banging!

Prisoners of Evin Women's ward held all-night sit-in protests in the prison yard on July 27, which was their second (and not their last) overnight sit-in in a week, and from 9 pm till midnight they chanted their demand that the IRI end executions.

This IEC video, below, uses one of several audio files posted on social media; the main slogans heard in the different files, translated from Farsi to English by IEC Volunteers, are:

  • No to threats, No to repression, No to execution!
  • Political Prisoners Must be Freed!
  • We may give up health, we may give up life, but we do not give up on emancipation!
  • The Execution State must be Destroyed! The Islamic Republic will be Destroyed!
  • Kurdistan will be the Graveyard of Fascists! Kurdistan is the light in the eye of Iran.
  • Jin Jian Azadi (Woman, Life, Freedom)! Freedom is our right! Unity is our power!
  • We swear by the blood of our comrades that we will resist to the end!
  • We Stand United to End Executions!
  • The Islamic Republic is a weakling. We will not let the IRI rest.
  • Sharifeh Mohammadi, Pakhshan Azizi.
  • Women’s ward at Evin in one voice, with one oath, until the annulment of execution, we stand till the end.

Video: IEC. Artwork from social media has been added to illustrate the prisoners’ spirit.

Note that when these prisoners refuse to return to the ward, they are not only locked out of all sources of water, sanitation, and rest, they also risk retaliation by prison authorities ranging from beatings, solitary confinement, refusal of phone calls, denial of visitations and urgent medical care, additional charges and prison time. Every chant you hear is a courageous resounding refusal to back down.

Student Organizations in Iran Call for Mobilizations: “We shout along with the women activists in Evin Prison”

Burn The Cage reposted this call by at least 20 student organizations in Iran calling on people worldwide on August 10 and 11 to elevate the struggle to free four women activists falsely accused of “armed rebellion” and a stop to all executions in Iran, echoing the call from Evin Women’s Ward.

Four women in danger of execution, left to right: Sharifeh Mohammadi (labor organizer), Varisheh Moradi (Kurdish activist), Nasim Gholami Simiyari (WLF Uprising protester), Pakhshan Azizi (Kurdish activist and social worker). 20 logos of student organizations endorsing this call to action. Collage: Isfahan.uni
Joint Statement of Student Organizations from around the Country [Iran]:
We call for protest rallies to be held immediately outside the country in support of Sharifeh Mohammadi, Pakhshan Azizi, Nasim Gholami Simiyari, Varisheh Moradi, and we must increase the pressure against the Islamic Republic by advancing the protests nationwide! ...
Over the past few days and weeks, the Islamic Republic [IRI] has issued death sentences to two female political prisoners, Sharifeh Mohammadi and Pakhshan Azizi, on trumped-up charges of “Baghi” (armed struggle against Islamic rule). In addition, the same charge has been brought against Nasim Gholami Simiyari and Varisheh Moradi which could lead to the issuance of the death penalty for them. This approach by the [IRI] represents a different level of repression that casts the shadow of execution over all activists who are standing up to the inhumane and deplorable conditions that have been imposed on Iranian society.
We have had the positive experience of resisting the death penalty for our dear Toomaj [Salehi], which was overturned due to the pressure of our protests inside and outside the country. We have the experience of many struggles and resistance together in the streets of the world — with groups, rebels, activists, organizations, institutions, political parties and organizations of the people, and the presence of freedom-loving Iranians  — we have seen how this put pressure on the [IRI] government, and has further emboldened the struggle.
Therefore, it is necessary to maintain this nationwide pressure and protest and continue to beat the drum of the "Woman, Life, Freedom" revolution and scratch the ears of the reactionaries and executioners. We must not allow the Islamic Republic to carry out, expand and normalize its campaign of deliberate, orchestrated murder to eliminate political dissent. This attack by the Islamic Republic of Iran [IRI] targeting activists in the women’s rights protest movement is a continuation of its #WarAgainstWomen and its war against the entire society of Iran.
We must also firmly declare that we will carry forward the struggle and protests of this “Woman, Life, Freedom” revolution against this anti-women, anti-life and anti-freedom IRI regime by organizing wider and more extensive protests and gatherings both inside and outside the country.
This is why we call on all who participated in the "Woman, Life, Freedom" revolution, all freedom-seekers, human rights organizations, political parties and groups to stand against the Islamic Republic and defend Sharifeh Mohammadi, Pakhshan Azizi, Nasim Gholami Simiyari, Varisheh Moradi, and other death row prisoners and come into the streets worldwide and hold protest rallies in their cities on Saturday, August 10 or Sunday, August 11.
With revolutionary determination, we shout along with the women activists in Evin Prison, we “Stand and Stay United” until the abolition of the death penalty, until the end of gender apartheid, until the overthrow of the IRI regime and the victory of the "Woman, Life, Freedom" revolution.

Miles Solay “I’m here with Toomaj Salehi” at Mural in Cali, Colombia

Last week Miles Solay of the revolutionary band Outernational was in Colombia for a @CallejerasMusica street music performance in Bogotá, which included the performance of “Free Women.” On July 31, he posted this video which he recorded in front of the spectacular street mural in Cali, Colombia, created by quemarlajaula.

One of the hundreds of comments the post received was this one, in Farsi: “Thank you for not being indifferent from the other side of the world. Music is the language of all the people in the world, and through this, we can express the pain in the world, the reaction to which will bring global peace and tranquility to the people of the world.”

Video: Miles.Solay IG, posted on IEC channel with permission.

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