YRJ launches "No to execution" campaign

Women journalists in the NE Syria Canton expressed widespread solidarity with the activists detained in Iranian state prisons, while expressing their rejection of the death sentences issued against Kurdish activist and journalist Bakhshan Azizi and activist Sharifa Mohammadi.

Accordingly, the Women's Media Union, with the participation of a large group of female journalists, announced the launch of a campaign to collect signatures under the slogan "No to execution".

This came during a statement made by the Union today (12 August), in front of the Mohamed Sheikho Center in the city of Qamishlo, read in Kurdish by member of the administrative body of the Women's Media Union Newroz Damhat, and Arabic by the spokeswoman of the Women's Media Union, Arin Swed, which read:

"The Iranian regime has been suppressing all the rights of women freedom, the individual, society and the Iranian people with its extremist religious ideology and reactionary patriarchal mentality, for half a century, its sexist and religious fanatic regime has deprived Iranian women and peoples of all their human rights, and in the face of this repressive regime, the Iranian people and society have not abandoned the uprising by leading women and demanding their freedom, neither executions nor imprisonment have been able to make the people retreat, and the Iranian regime has not been able to break the strength and will of the struggling people.

The Iranian regime has no other way but to change

There is no doubt that during this half century, these policies that suppress the rights of women and society have not strengthened the Iranian regime, in this 21st century, no country will be able to withstand unless it is based on democracy, freedom, justice and equality, and there are many examples of this, especially in the Middle East, and the Iranian state is not far from facing the same fate of neighboring countries, and the uprising of "women, life, freedom" came to confirm this fact, and the Iranian regime may say that it suppressed this uprising, but it will not be able to extinguish the beating revolution in the hearts of those seeking freedom in any way, it will not be able to silence the women who have harvested the flower of their lives for freedom, and women will take revenge on the regime for those flowers that symbolize their lives one day, certainly, the Iranian regime is forced to change, and if it does not open its door to democratic changes, freedom and equality, it will collapse little by little.  

Power and free will can't be broken by execution

The Iranian regime sentenced activist Sharifa Mohammadi on July 4, and women's rights activist and journalist Bakhshan Azizi on 24 of the same month, to death, and thousands of female activists in Iranian prisons today are subjected to torture, and despite all the psychological and physical torture they are subjected to, they did not give up their demands or surrender to the tyrannical Iranian regime, and Warisha Moradi, Sharifa Mohammadi and Bakhshan Azizi are women who were not deterred by the threat of execution from their case, and Warisha Moradi confirmed in her pleading and Bakhshan Azizi in her letter on their insistence on freedom and explained their goals in detail, the Iranian regime may have tied the hands and feet of women who sacrificed everything for freedom, but was unable to restrict their ideas.

It is time to support and adopt struggle of women resistance

We, the journalists in the NE Syria Region, condemn the death sentence issued against the 2 activists, Sharifa Mohammadi and Bakhshan Azizi, because it violates all international laws and provisions on human rights and journalists. We, journalists from NE Syria, announce a campaign under the slogan "No to execution", and within the framework of this campaign, we will collect signatures in solidarity with the activists, Warisha, Bakhshan and Sharifa, and our campaign will begin; the campaign to collect signatures on August 12 and continue until the 19th of it, and we call on the Women's Media Union to all human rights organizations, Women's movements, press organizations and journalists, support our campaign and join us to amplify the voice of Iranian women and society.

Through this campaign, we call on international organizations, human rights organizations and press unions to abide by their responsibilities and duties and work to abolish the death sentence, and to stand against these inhumane practices, violations and massacres committed against women and society in general, and to hold those responsible accountable."

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ANHA