KJAR calls for solidarity with Warisha Moradi sentenced to death in Iran

The Association of Free Women of Eastern Kurdistan (KJAR) calls for solidarity with its activist Warisha Moradi, who has been sentenced to death in Iran.


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NEWS DESK
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 

The Association of Free Women of Eastern Kurdistan (KJAR) released a statement calling for solidarity with its activist Warisha Moradi, who has been sentenced to death in Iran. The determination and solidarity in the fight against the regime can stop the execution machine, the umbrella organisation of the Kurdish women's movement emphasised, and explicitly welcomed the efforts of people around the world who are speaking up for Moradi.

“Every action for our friend is to be appreciated. Because human solidarity should remind us of the importance of acting together when faced with problems. The fight against the death penalty in Iran and beyond is a common fight. Therefore, we call on activists and struggling women worldwide to stand by Warisha and her resistance for the liberation of women and to prevent the regime from achieving its goals,” said the KJAR.

On Sunday, it was announced that Warisha Moradi had been sentenced to death by a revolutionary court in Tehran for ‘armed rebellion against the state’. The sentence is related to Moradi's advocacy of women's political and feminist issues as part of her membership of the KJAR, which is prosecuted by Iran's regime judiciary as a ‘separatist terrorist organisation’.

Moradi, who is currently being held in the women's wing of Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, was abducted by the Iranian intelligence service near Sine (Sanandaj), the city of her birth in eastern Kurdistan, and initially held for weeks in a local ‘detention centre’. According to human rights organisations, she was severely tortured both by the Ministry of Intelligence in Sine and in Evin Prison, both physically and psychologically, in order to force her to make a confession on camera. She is denied access to a lawyer most of the time, as well as contact with her family members.

“The patriarchal and misogynist regime has resorted to its full range of cruelties to break Warisha Moradi. Because these measures were ineffective against her desire and that of all women for freedom, she has now been sentenced to death,” said KJAR.

The KJAR said that the death sentence is an act of revenge by the regime on the ‘Jin Jiyan Azadî’ revolution, of which Moradi is considered to be a pioneer. The uprising that ignited in September 2022, following the murder of the young Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini by the Iranian forces, has resulted in a liberation movement and triggered the greatest crisis of legitimacy that the regime has experienced in its 45-year history. But instead of recognising the suffering of the various groups affected by discrimination and oppression, ending the suppression of fundamental rights and freedoms and tackling the crises that Iran has long been facing – inflation, growing poverty and skyrocketing prices that hit women even harder – those who long for a life of dignity are being fought, ‘with the utmost radicalism and brutality,’ the KJAR emphasised.

“The death sentence against Warisha Moradi, with which the regime has driven another nail into the coffin of its own system, is a clear indication that Tehran will stick to its inhuman and misogynistic course. There will be resistance against this. We strongly condemn this decision. Warisha Moradi and also Pakhshan Azizi, as well as all other fighting women, are the torches of freedom for the peoples of Iran. They are symbols of the struggle for “Jin Jiyan Azadî” (Woman, Life, Freedom), to whom the sensitivity and solidarity of all people, and especially women, who long for freedom, should be directed,” KJAR stated.

Southern Kurdistan Women's Front calls for action for Warisha Moradi

Southern Kurdistan Women's Front calls on all women of the world to take action for Warisha Moradi, who was sentenced to death in Iran.


ANF
NEWS DESK
Tuesday, 12 November 2024

The Southern Kurdistan Women's Front made a statement calling for urgent action for Warisha Moradi, a member of the Eastern Kurdistan Free Women's Community (KJAR), who was sentenced to death in Iran. The statement called on everyone to be the voice of Warisha Moradi against the death sentence handed to her.

The statement referred to the protests that took place in Iran and Eastern Kurdistan two years ago with the slogan ‘Jin Jiyan Azadî’ (Woman, Life, Freedom) and noted that the spirit of women's resistance and struggle gave strength to women all over the world. The statement emphasised that Warisha Moradi dedicated her life to women's freedom and was arrested by the forces of the occupying Iranian regime on 31 July 2023 due to the hopes she pioneered in her life dedicated to women's freedom. “However, Warisha Moradi’s hopes and goals for women's freedom grew even more in prison, where she did not give up the struggle,” it added.

The statement remarked that Warisha Moradi has always stood against the death penalty in Iran, where the ruling regime does not even recognise the right to defence.

Remarking that Iran's execution policies are aimed at intimidation, the statement concluded: “As women from Southern Kurdistan, we call out to all women of the world; as Warisha Moradi became the voice of all women in prison, let us raise our voices against the death penalty. The more we raise our voices against the execution policy, the more we can stop executions. Together we must stand against the death sentence given to Warisha Moradi.”

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