Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا @GissouNia Twitter profile

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

1 year

My positions on absolutely everything: “No one is free until we are all free.” “What happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of all of us.” Hope that’s crystal clear.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

4 years

I’ve been too busy working to realize that a raft of influencers were just paid (again) to fly to Saudi to brighten MBS’s image. Seeing the caption “Saudi girls” is especially grating when I think of Saudi women’s rights activists jailed or exiled for pushing for basic freedoms.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

Iran’s women and girls won #IRIoffCSW

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

2 years

So apparently Rushdie's attacker had loads of Khomeini and Khamenei photos on his socials. If Twitter can de-platform Trump, it should be consistent and de-platform Khamenei, given that he had death threats on here against Rushdie. It's not enough to just take the tweet down.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

واکنش ما پس از تصویب قطعنامه ✌🏼

Shadi Sadr

@shadisadr

1 year

از جمله این سازمانها و افراد @ICHRI @NazaninNour @GissouNia بودند. تلاش اینها و بقیه سازمانها باعث شد که قطعنامه با رای موافق بالا (۲۵ رای) تصویب شود. مثلا گامبیا و مکزیک جزو کشورهایی بودند که می‌خواستند رای ممتنع بدهند و فعالان ایرانی آنها را قانع کردند که رای موافق بدهند. ۱۶/۲۰

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

Lol at all the global media fact checkers who were quick to denounce the 15,000 death sentences story but are now running the fake news that the morality police has been abolished in Iran.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

3 years

Human rights lawyer Steven Donziger is going to jail for basically daring to take on Chevron & their environmental abuses. I initially connected w/ Steven b/c I'd only seen these kinds of attacks on lawyers in Iran, Egypt or other dictatorships. Yet this is happening in the US.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

Judge Salavati is a stone cold killer. He presided over mass show trials following 2009 protests, hostage cases and recent executions of protesters. Learn more about the killer judges of the Islamic Republic here:

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

2 years

If anyone says #IranProtests2022 are just about defanging the morality police please assume their commentary is uninformed or designed to mislead. The slogans of “Death to the Dictator” couldn’t be more clear. They are not after temporary reforms.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

IT PASSED!!!!

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

The Islamic Republic has sent one of their woman deputies to deny their crimes. How morally bankrupt and self hating do you need to be as a woman to defend the killings of young women and girls? For shame #SS35

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

3 years

RIP Alireza Fazeli Monfared 💔 Brutally killed and disposed of by his family because of his sexuality. Cultural attitudes in society towards homosexuality are a literal life or death problem. What compounds the problem is when the laws of a state do not provide any protection.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

2 years

Just in from @HRANA_English / @hra_news on #IranProtests2022 : * Protests now recorded in all 31 provinces * Among the dead, confirmed that 9 children have been killed * The average age of those killed are 26 y/o * At least 3000 arrests at this time, predominantly of women

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

Pitch perfect from @NazaninBoniadi . I don't understand how the international community can see what is unfolding in Iran and still think policies that don't put supporting Iran's people at its core are a winning strategy.

Fardad Farahzad | فرداد فرحزاد

@FardadFarahzad

2 years

Powerful speech by @NazaninBoniadi at the @UN Security Council.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

2 years

Latest info on Iran protests from @hra_news : At least 101 deaths, likely closer to 200. At least 18 confirmed deaths under 18 y/o. At least 5,500 arrests, including 147 students and 36 journalists. 342 documented protests in 105 cities, 68 universities, in all 31 provinces.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

2 years

Emergency ask 🆘 If you know of any Islamic Republic of Iran human rights violators or their children that are allegedly living, working, visiting or own property/assets in Canada, please DM me with their names and any information you have. Do not comment here, please DM.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

A win for the people of Iran. There is still so much to do. #IRIoffCSW

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

🚨 BREAKING: It is now official, a Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council on human rights in Iran will be convened shortly. Thank you to Germany and Iceland for their leadership.

Germany UN Geneva 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦

@GermanyUNGeneva

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Germany 🇩🇪 and Iceland 🇮🇸 request a Special Session of @UN_HRC on the #HumanRights situation in Iran. Thank you to all supporters joining this call.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

2 years

A ridiculous tweet. Congrats Barbara. You gave Raisi a photo op and legitimacy. He can now say: American think tankers want to meet me. Even as he murders Iranians in cold blood as they demand their basic freedoms. You accomplished exactly zero.

Barbara Slavin

@barbaraslavin1

2 years

@Farhadrezaeii I asked him about Mahsa and Irans hypocrisy about human rights.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

Please share widely: 12 vacancy postings to recruit the staff of the UN fact finding mission on Iran have now been posted. All applications can be made online at: by the deadline of January 22 or 23, depending on the posting.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

Hi media - The story shouldn’t be: “How Trudeau fell for fake news.” It should be: “The Islamic Republic is killing and executing protesters. Here is how the free world can stop this.”

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

2 years

Today, October 4, marks 1000 days since Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down civilian airliner flight PS752, killing all 176 passengers and crew and an unborn child. The families of the victims ( @ps752justice ) are seeking truth and justice.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

Exactly right. Back in September, women inside Iran asked us to kick the Islamic Republic off the CSW. So we agreed to do just that. I wish they could come to NYC and tell UN diplomats this themselves. But they are in jail for their activism, or would be jailed upon return.

Nazanin Boniadi

@NazaninBoniadi

1 year

The call to expel the Islamic Republic from the UN Commission on the Status of Women has its roots among Iran’s women’s rights defenders. Any effort to paint this as a Western-led effort negates their voices & is intended to prevent IRI’s expulsion.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

Incredible advocacy by @AlinejadMasih @LadiKhanom @shimababaeii & Roya Piraei. As a P5+1 country and leader in the EU, France's support for Iran's people, NOT the Islamic Republic, is critical. First and foremost, Masih's points on how France can steer EU policy are essential.

Masih Alinejad 🏳️

@AlinejadMasih

1 year

1-During my visit with @EmmanuelMacron , I told him that what is happening in Iran is a revolution. France can be the first country to officially recognize this revolution. France must meet the Iranian opposition instead of regime officials and to prepare the EU for a secular Iran

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

For all the global media saying the morality police has been abolished 👇🏼 Also pls remember that compulsory hijab laws are still on the books, as well as all the other gender discriminatory laws restricting my rights in marriage, custody, inheritance, divorce.

Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی

@arash_tehran

1 year

Did Iran say it will shut the Guidance Patrol (Hijab police)? No. Here is what happened: In a press conference, someone asked top prosecutor, Jafar Montazeri, why was the Guidance Patrol not around anymore. +

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@GissouNia

1 year

In Iran, women are banned from many fields of study, sporting events & from obtaining a passport & traveling outside the country without their husband’s permission. Women’s lives & testimony are worth half a man under the law. This treatment has a name: GENDER APARTHEID.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

Hossein Ronaghi's life is in danger. He's a long time dissident in Iran, who the Islamic Republic has wanted dead for years. He's been in & out of prison since the June 2009 protests in Iran. He lost one kidney due to custodial torture, the other is badly damaged. BE HIS VOICE

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@GissouNia

2 years

Much love to our Afghan sisters. The world cruelly abandoned you and you’re still fighting. In awe of your spirit, and hope this women’s wave of protest brings real change ❤️

Shabnam Nasimi

@NasimiShabnam

2 years

The brave and heroic women & girls of Afghanistan chanting “taseel haq-e māst!” (education is our right) in Herat city today against the Taliban. Afghanistan remains the ONLY country in the world where girls are banned from school.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

2 years

I was invited to this meeting. But due to a delayed overnight flight, I didn't make the 9:15 am call time. These are the points I sent virtually on what USG can do TODAY to help: 1) Call a special session of the UN Human Rights Council to create a UN investigative mechanism.

Secretary Antony Blinken

@SecBlinken

2 years

We continue to find ways to respond to the Iranian government’s state-sponsored violence against women and crackdown on its people. Today, I met with civil society partners to discuss what more the U.S. can do to support the people of Iran, particularly its brave women and girls.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

2 years

BREAKING: Evin prison is on fire. There are concerns, from credible sources I just spoke to, that this is a way for the Islamic Republic to kill all political prisoners it has rounded up there. Govts w/ diplomatic relations w/ the IRI need to urgently assess what is going on.

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@GissouNia

1 year

Women INSIDE Iran have been calling for the Islamic Republic to be removed from the UN Commission on the Status of Women 👇🏼

S.R.Praveen

@myopiclenses

1 year

IFFK -Interview with Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi @m_mahnaz "The news from the regime is not to be trusted. All these announcements are for other countries so as to regain the seat they had lost at the UN Women’s Commission. They lie continuously,”

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@GissouNia

1 year

Thank you to the president of the UN Human Rights Council @FVillegasARG for meeting us today to discuss the upcoming @UN_HRC special session on Iran tomorrow in Geneva. @RoyaBoroumand @NazaninNour

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

2 years

To tweet responsibly about #IranProtests2022 : Do not compare Iran’s treatment of women to the US. Your discussion of the misogyny of US law makers distracts from the attention on Iran. The ppl of Iran need sustained attention and support, w/o centering this around US problems.

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@GissouNia

1 year

Great to meet an all-women team at the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations today with @MexOnu @NazaninNour @mozhanistan and Nasim Pedrad.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

2 years

LA streets filled again ✌🏼

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

3 years

In 2012, I was on the prosecution team for Iran Tribunal, a people’s court seeking the truth about the 1988 massacre. In 2021, one of the key perpetrators of that massacre, responsible for thousands of summary executions, has just been (s)elected as president of Iran. Grim.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

Narges Mohammadi, one of Iran’s bravest human rights defenders, just posted the names of women’s rights activists who want the Islamic Republic off the CSW. These are women who have been jailed for seeking the freedoms the Islamic Republic is denying them.

Narges Mohammadi (@narges_mohamadi_51) • Instagram photo

www.instagram.com

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

2 years

As I've repeatedly said, this isn't just about getting rid of the morality police. The entire legal discriminatory framework in Iran needs to go. The state enshrines in its laws discrimination against women, ethnic minorities, religious minorities, LGBTQ populations and so on.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

2 years

With regime shifts, and perpetrators possibly fleeing, revving up investigations, indictments and trials will become a real possibility and governments around the world need to be ready to arrest, try and extradite as needed.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

Toomaj Salehi is a gifted rapper who has been the voice of protesters in Iran. For the “crime” of peacefully exercising his freedom of expression he may now face the death penalty. #ToomajSalehi #توماج_صالحی

توماج صالحی🌋

@OfficialToomaj

1 year

#ToomajSalehi ’s life is at serious risk right now. Toomaj’s court sessions are being held behind closed doors without legal rep on charges of Moharebeh (Waging War Against God) & Fesad fel Arz (Corruption on Earth). Please help us @UN_HRC @JavaidRehman @AlexXanthaki

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

3 years

Rap was born out of the struggles of oppressed communities challenging the status quo. This applies to Iran, where rapper @ToomajSalehi calls out regime abuses in his art. For speaking truth to power, he has now been detained by IRI security forces. #FreeToomaj #توماج_صالحی

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

3 years

I haven't seen much global media coverage of the protests in Khuzestan province in Iran, sparked by an extreme water shortage. But every journalist who covers refugees, immigration and climate change should be paying attention right now. This is a window into our global future.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

4 years

@GeopolPishi I remember that. This type of influencer-washing is very problematic, especially when financially sponsored by oppressive states that do not give its own populace such freedoms.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

A second protester, Majidreza Rahnavard, was just executed by the Islamic Republic 💔

Shahram Rafizadeh

@ShahramRafizade

1 year

#مجیدرضا_رهنورد، معترض بازداشت شده در مشهد، اعدام شد. ذات جمهوری اسلامی کشتار، اعدام و جنایت است. از بالا تا پایینش در خدمت کشتار و اعدام است. فراموش نکنیم: چه آنها که گفتند سکوت کنید، چه آنها که خواهند گفت بی‌اطلاع بودیم، بخشی از این ماشین کشتارند #محسن_شکاری #مهسا_امینی

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

3 years

For every person on here saying “the Taliban may not be so bad” or “anything is better than the US” and who holds a Western passport let’s make a deal: you go check it out for yourself and you give that passport to one of the many Afghans I know trying to leave. Win-win!

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

4 years

Looks like Andrew Yang was way ahead of the curve on this one. #YangGang

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

4 years

GOP & Democrats are both coming to the same conclusion: Universal Basic Income is going to have to play a role in helping Americans weather this crisis. @RoKhanna & @TimRyan ’s proposal goes up to $6,000/mo depending on need. Mitt Romney just came out for a flat $1,000 universal.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

2 years

@maasalan @PKhakpour I’ll take it one step further. Everything @1500tasvir is saying is completely fine. They are one of the main reasons Iranians in Iran can be heard during these protests. If you are attacking them you are actively assisting the Islamic Republic’s propaganda. Reconsider and delete.

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

Thank you @NazaninBoniadi for speaking to @mitchellreports about our campaign to have gender apartheid recognized as a crime under international law. This is a way to hold the Taliban & Islamic Republic accountable for their segregation & subjugation of women. #endgenderapartheid

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Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا

@GissouNia

1 year

Thank you to @BobRae48 and @CanadaUN as always for your leadership at the United Nations in New York. #IRIoffCSW @NazaninNour @talaashe

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@GissouNia

2 years

Mahsa Amini is dead 💔 Mahsa’s before and after photos. She was brutally beaten by the so-called “morality police” in Iran who enforce the Islamic Republic of Iran’s mandatory hijab rules. #مهسا_امینی

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@GissouNia

1 year

🚨 REMINDER: call McCaul tomorrow! House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul has announced a markup session for Tuesday, March 28. The MAHSA Act is currently not included in the list of bills. Calling his office on Monday will be a must. #MahsaAct

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@GissouNia

2 years

💥 BREAKING: first time that a group of 10 UN human rights experts are jointly calling for "the establishment of an international investigative mechanism”. Member states on the UN Human Rights Council should immediately support this call on Iran.

Iran: UN experts demand accountability for death of Mahsa Amini, call for end to violence against...

GENEVA (22 September 2022) – UN experts* today strongly condemned the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody after her arrest for allegedly failing to comply with Iran’s strict...

www.ohchr.org

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@GissouNia

2 years

The friends & family of @HosseinRonaghi say they have not heard from him since the morning, and that he was arrested/abducted by Iranian security agents. Ronaghi has been a fierce critic of the Islamic Republic of Iran's plan to wall off Iran's internet from the outside world.

Hassan Ronaghi

@HassanRonaghi

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برادرم از صبح که ار خانه خارج شده ازش خبری نیست. طبق گفته بعضی دوستان چندین بار با شماره ناشناس سازمانی باهاش تماس گرفته شده. امروزدر یک فایل موقت که پاک شد ه برام فرستاده بود که اگه ازم خبری نشد خبر رسانی کنید. هر اتفاقی برا حسین بایفته مسئول بیت رهبری ، سپاه ،قوه قضاییه هست.

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@GissouNia

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BREAKING: a joint statement on human rights in Iran was just delivered by Chile at the ongoing 51st session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The statement has dozens of country co-sponsors from around the world, reflecting the universal concern for women’s rights.

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@GissouNia

10 months

Yes, this is gender apartheid and we are seeking to codify this under international law. Thank you @NazaninBoniadi for bringing this message to the @OsloFF stage.

Nazanin Boniadi

@NazaninBoniadi

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2. Iranian women are among the very few in the world who have less rights than their grandmothers did five decades ago. #WomanLifeFreedom #GenderApartheid

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@GissouNia

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Telling @BBCWorld that targeted sanctions on IRI human rights violators are primarily behavior modification tools but can also be used as accountability tools if coupled w/ laws that allow not just for freezing, but also seizing of assets to transfer from perpetrators to victims.

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@GissouNia

11 months

What is this supposed to mean? I can only assume Zelensky's advisors didn't prep him properly. What "people of Iran" is he addressing this to? The ones who have for 9 months now been defying the Islamic Republic at great personal cost of imprisonment, torture & even death??

KyivPost

@KyivPost

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President #Zelensky appealed to the people of Iran not to become complicit in the Russian war: “When an Iranian drone kills a pregnant Ukrainian girl and her husband in their home, what do you want? When your #Shahed hits a dormitory with our students, people die, a fire starts,…

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@GissouNia

4 years

So now Iranian-Americans, many of whom fled an oppressive state, are being profiled here stateside. Cool, cool. Very troubling echoes of post 9/11 and travel ban days!

John Ghazvinian

@JohnGhazvinian

4 years

Well, just landed at JFK and — no surprise — got taken to the special side room and got asked (among other things) how I feel about the situation with Iran. I wanted to be like: my book comes out in September, preorder now on amazon

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@GissouNia

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It passed! #MAHSAAct Super well done to the Mahsa Act army, you guys are champs 💪🏼

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@GissouNia

1 year

I'm horrified by the efforts to rehabilitate Assad. We knew this was coming, but to be so brazen... it really shocks the system. My thoughts:

Experts react: Assad gets warm reception at Arab summit. Where does that leave the US and its...

Atlantic Council experts react to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's attendance at the Arab League summit in Jeddah and explain its significance below.

www.atlanticcouncil.org

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@GissouNia

4 years

Soleimani was a war criminal. I wish we saw him in the defendant’s dock, answering for his crimes against Syrians, Yemenis, Iraqis, Iranians terrorized by the IRGC and so many others.

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@GissouNia

2 years

Here are Qs I've received about Iran protests: * Why focus on Iran? Isn't Saudi Arabia worse? * Are US sanctions causing these protests? * Did things just get bad under this president? I believe these Qs are due to lack of airtime for human rights voices in media on Iran.

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@GissouNia

2 years

If I was a layperson reading this @nytimes piece on Iran protests I’d think Iran is a democracy based on this paragraph. A flawed one, but still. Meanwhile the only real decision maker in Iran is the Supreme Leader, who is unelected, unaccountable and in power since 1989. 😬

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@GissouNia

2 years

Journalist @JomanaCNN has consistently been providing excellent coverage of the situation in Iran. If you’re not already following her, please follow.

Artemis Moshtaghian

@ArtemisChats

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A large, dark plume of smoke is seen billowing near Evin prison in northern Tehran & gunshots are heard in multiple social media videos shared online Saturday night. CNN’s @JomanaCNN reporting on the latest #IranProtests

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Today @ps752justice submitted an Article 15 communication to the International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor with information & evidence about crimes that occurred on board Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 committed by the IRI & IRGC.

‘Our lives are destroyed’: families take fight for truth of flight 752 to ICC

Exclusive: grieving relatives allege war crime and crime against humanity over January 2020 downing of aircraft

www.theguardian.com

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@GissouNia

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I guess I shouldn't be shocked by what people will do for money but I continue to be shocked. Unless this contract is somehow intended to truthfully discuss the abuses in Tigray, then, no.

Former congressman will lobby for Ethiopian government

New Justice Department filings show a Florida Democrat is the first former lawmaker to represent the Ethiopian government.

www.politico.com

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@GissouNia

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Guys she works for Press TV, an official mouth piece for the Islamic Republic of Iran. Press TV is what Ofcom took off the air for airing forced confessions from tortured prisoners in Iran's jails. I don't know what booker was involved but that's a clear red flag, c'mon now.

Douglas Murray

@DouglasKMurray

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This is the woman ITV invited on to talk about ‘Islamophobia’ this week, and how tough it is to live in Britain. Here she is on the day of the Hamas massacres:

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@GissouNia

2 years

Thanks @washingtonpost @jrezaian for mentioning the @ps752justice Article 15 communication to the International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor, submitted by @dijkstal and myself on behalf of the families of the victims. #ps752justice

Opinion | What’s happening in Iran? Here’s what people there are saying.

With protests, Raisi abroad and the supreme leader ailing, could change be on the horizon?

www.washingtonpost.com

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@GissouNia

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The Islamic Republic's Education Ministry has published a statement saying it will no longer provide educational services to students in schools & universities who do not follow Islamic dress codes. This exclusion has a name: gender apartheid.

Iran's Education Ministry Says Won't Provide Schooling To Hijab Rule Breakers

Iran's Education Ministry says it will no longer provide educational services to students who do not follow dress codes, including wearing a head scarf, as the authorities continue to tighten...

www.rferl.org

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@GissouNia

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Just discovered that Dutch-Iranian blogger Negin Mirsalehi also took the MBS pay. She sells hair oil that shares my name (Gissou means long hair in Persian poetry). Mystified by how someone w/ roots in Iran, where the state also jails activists, didn’t reflect more deeply here :(

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@GissouNia

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The background: my team working on targeted sanctions packages has identified assets in the US, UK, Germany, Netherlands, etc. But information on Canada is limited. We are confident there is more to uncover. Please send us any information you have and we'll run with it.

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@GissouNia

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Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul didn’t mark up the MAHSA Act today but do not give up 💪🏼 #MAHSAAct

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@GissouNia

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The families of #PS752 have tried multiple paths to justice - including civil lawsuits, a submission to the ICC prosecutor & engaging w/ UN special procedures. Today, Canada and affected states took the first big step in a legal pathway at the @CIJ_ICJ .

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@GissouNia

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Global recognition of gender apartheid keeps growing. UN experts released a joint statement today saying the IRI’s laws can be a form of gender apartheid. These statements build acceptance of the concept as a legal term, and helps our push to codify.

Iran’s proposed hijab law could amount to “gender apartheid”: UN experts

GENEVA (1 September 2023) – UN experts* today expressed grave concern over a new draft law, currently under review in the Iranian parliament, which imposes a series of new punishments on women and...

www.ohchr.org

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@GissouNia

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Protesters in Iran gather at the Russian embassy in Tehran and call it a “nest of spies”. Keep in mind, this is not the same as if I joined a protest in front of the federal bldg in Los Angeles. These folks face arrest, detention & torture for this exercise of free expression.

اتاق خبر منوتو

@ManotoNews

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سفارت روسیه لانه جاسوسیه #تهران …⁣ WhatsApp/Telegram: +44 7590 899 999

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I am so glad Arash Sadeghi has been released from prison after nearly 6 years. He has endured hunger strikes, denial of medical treatment & the baseless imprisonment of his wife Golrokh Iraee. I am happy he is released, but he never should have been imprisoned in the first place.

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@GissouNia

3 years

This is Swedish-Iranian academic Ahmadreza Djalali and his family. He faces imminent execution in Iran. According to him, he was sentenced to death because he refused to spy for the Islamic Republic. Peaceful academics shouldn’t be put to death. RT if you agree.

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@GissouNia

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Key signatories on our letter to recognize gender apartheid under international and national laws. Sign the open letter at

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@GissouNia

4 years

For anyone who shared the @RStatecraft piece on Masih Alinejad, please reflect. The coordinated attack on her is an effort to silence her - which aligns with the IRI’s effort to silence her. No matter your politics, that is not a progressive position to hold.

Masih Alinejad 🏳️

@AlinejadMasih

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MPORTANT THREAD ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 1-Earlier this week, Rep Ilhan Omar shared a defamatory article about me on social media by a Koch-Brothers funded “think tank” co-founded by a known sympathizer of the Iranian regime. Here's my response to @IlhanMN

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@NazaninBoniadi 💚🤍❤️🙏🏼

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@GissouNia

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Lovely to meet @AlirezaAkhondi in person. Grateful for all the initiatives he and his team are working on in Europe. cc @NazaninNour

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@GissouNia

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When the Islamic Republic shut down the internet in Nov 2019 to kill peaceful protesters under the cover of darkness, Mohammed Mosaed tried to get that news out to the world. Now he has fled to Turkey. The authorities want to deport him back to Iran. This must be stopped.

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@GissouNia

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On #InternationalWomensDay I want to remember Mahsa Jina Amini, whose tragic killing by the Islamic Republic’s so-called “morality police” sparked a movement Rest in power beautiful Mahsa. I hope you see how we honor you 🙏🏼🤍 Jin Jiyan Azadi Zan Zendegi Azadi Women Life Freedom

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@GissouNia

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This is horrific. An appeals court in Iran has upheld the 8 year prison sentence against Ali Alinejad. This is nothing short of a hostage taking situation meant to silence and intimidate his sister @AlinejadMasih .

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@GissouNia

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این نمونه شجاعت شخصی و اخلاقی است. @alinejadmasih ما با تو همدردیم. ما همچنین با تمام فعالان شجاع ایران که تمام آنچه داشتند را فدای اعتقادشان کردند تا ایران بهتری بسازند همدردیم.

Pouria Zeraati

@pouriazeraati

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مسیح علی‌نژاد: خفه نمی‌شوم ... ... ... @AlinejadMasih

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I would strongly urge against this. There’s a risk of losing open source info relevant to accountability proceedings for atrocity crimes. E.g. content from Nov 2019 anti govt protests in Iran that hasn’t been stored and may be on now dormant accounts, even of dead protesters.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

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We’re purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years, so you will probably see follower count drop

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@GissouNia

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“This picture features three mothers whose sons were murdered in street protests [in] 1999 (Said Zeinali), 2009 (Shahram Farajzadeh) & 2019 (Pooya Bakhtiari). The image gives the most precise political lesson & historicizes the current situation.” h/t Mina Khanlarzadeh

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@GissouNia

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Those who spend more time attacking human rights defenders and opposition activists than they spend attacking the actual Islamic Republic are 🚩 🚩🚩

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@GissouNia

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The use of the death penalty against journalists is abhorrent. If the Islamic Republic thought Zam committed a crime they should have sought extradition. But they didn’t because the real “crime” they wanted to punish him for was speaking truth to power and exposing corruption.

Iranhrdc.org

@IHRDC

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Iranian media are reporting that Ruhollah Zam has been executed. Zam, a journalist and political activist residing in France, was kidnapped and taken to Iran during a visit to Iraq. The international community must condemn Zam’s execution in the strongest possible terms.

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@GissouNia

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Khamenei threatening Baha'is, Jews & Iranian dissidents hasn't gotten him de-platformed. Maybe this feels too "far away" for the teams making these decisions, and they don't feel pressure. A stabbing of a celebrated writer at an NY lecture, though? Not so "far away" anymore...

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@GissouNia

4 years

The next time someone tries to downplay the abuses of a dictatorship or say “it’s none of our business” please point them to the handling of COVID-19. We are all interconnected and how states handle their “internal” affairs affects us all. Pathogens don’t recognize borders.

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@GissouNia

1 year

BREAKING NEWS: House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul has announced a markup session next week and the Mahsa Act will NOT be included. Calling his office on Monday will be a must. #MahsaAct

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@GissouNia

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This move is meant to intimidate and silence lawyers everywhere who are willing to stand up for our planet and take on big corporations who pollute. As a fellow lawyer, I'm appalled and I will make sure to not stop talking about it while Steven is away.

Lawyer Steven Donziger, Who Sued Chevron over “Amazon Chernobyl,” Ordered to Prison After House...

The environmental and human rights lawyer Steven Donziger joins us just before he is ordered to report to jail today, after a years-long legal battle with the oil company Chevron and 813 days of...

www.democracynow.org

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@GissouNia

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She’s now talking about Palestine because I guess she has nothing else to say.

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@GissouNia

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I’m hosting an in-person conversation w/ the President of the UN Human Rights Council at the @AtlanticCouncil this Fri, Oct 28. I’ll be asking about the HRC’s approach to Ukraine, China, climate change and of course… Iran. Link to follow, hope you can join in-person or via Zoom.

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@GissouNia

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Those unfamiliar with Masih might read "dissident" in the headline and think: did she engage in armed rebellion for a govt to want to send an assailant with an assault rifle to kill her? But no. Masih's sole sin is demanding equality for women.

Man arrested with AK-47 outside of dissident Iranian journalist's...

The complaint makes no explicit connection between Mehdiyev and Alinejad but says the accused had focused on an unnamed Brooklyn "residence."

nypost.com

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@GissouNia

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Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi has been a powerful and consistent voice of dissent against the Islamic Republic. Now the IRI has arrested him and his whereabouts are unknown. Toomaj is an incredible moral thinker and artist. He must be protected at all costs.

Nahayat Tizhoosh

@NahayatT

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I had a chance to speak with dissident rapper Toomaj about the enduring anti-regime protests in Iran. He took a great risk in agreeing to speak with me, for which I am so grateful. This morning, he was arrested. His whereabouts/condition are unknown.

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Zan. Zendegi. Azadi. ❤️🤍💚

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@GissouNia

2 years

Today, @IHRDC , through my co-counsel @dijkstal and myself, sent an Article 15 communication to the International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor concerning the Iranian state's role in the Syrian conflict. (h/t @patrickwintour for the coverage)

Human rights lawyers attempt to bring Syria war crimes cases to ICC

Attempt to target Iranian and Syrian officials includes evidence from civilians forced to flee to Jordan

www.theguardian.com

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@GissouNia

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40 days since Mahsa Jina’s tragic death at the hands of the Islamic Republic. 40 days and still no accountability. No acknowledgement of responsibility by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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