Tell HN: Farewell letter of M. Hosseini – executed 01.02.2023 by I.R. of Iran
I am Mohammad Hosseini, a prisoner in one of the dreaded prisons of the Iranian government. A man who had no one, no mother, father or family, but who was a friend of all the goodness in the world. After days and nights of resistance under severe torture, they forced me to confess the lie they wanted to hear and the crime I had not committed.
In the dawn of tomorrow, at the foot of the gallows, I will look up to the sky for the last time, see the last star and cry out with all my strength, "Woman, life, freedom". I will cry out in the name of justice and in the hope of a world without violence, a world that loves nature and that is safe for all the children of the world.
For me, who has been deeply lonely all his life, in a country where working children have not known justice, my only wish is that the world be a place where all children can be children and internalize love for people and for nature, and love all the creatures of this beautiful existence.
And for all this love, which is all I have left after this short, painful life, I shouted in the streets to stand beside the students of my country who were under batons and war bullets, shouting woman, life, freedom. Children who were forced for years and could do nothing but wish death to the whole world, but who are now the ambassadors of love and kindness, freedom and equality for all people, with the longing for peace, with the longing for a homeland and world free of violence.
These are not the words of a young man longing for salvation. These are the words of a lonely child laborer from the dark depths of the history of a country scourged by cruelty and violence. Who, in all the black nights of his childhood, embraced nature instead of a mother or a father. And who vowed to cry out for freedom, justice and love with all his resources and possibilities.
I wanted to say that I will give my life for the freedom of the women of my country.
And know when my body has become a flag in the fiery sunrise wind, that a man shouted at his last breath: long live love, long live freedom, long live all the peoples of the world.
-- source --
سلام، به همه مردم دنيا. من محمد حسینی زندانی در یکی از زندان های مخوف دولت ایران هستم. مردی که هیچ، مادر، پدر و خانواده ای نداشت، بلکه دوست همه خوبی های دنیا بود. پس از روزها و شب های مقاومت در زیر شکنجه های شدید، مرا مجبور کردند به دروغی که می خواستند بشنوند و جنایتی که مرتکب نشده بودم اعتراف کنم. در سپیده دم فردا، در پای دستک ها، برای آخرین بار به آسمان نگاه می کنم، آخرین ستاره را می بینم و با تمام قدرتم فریاد می زنم، «زن، زندگی، آزادی». من به نام عدالت و به امید دنیایی بدون خشونت گریه خواهم کرد، دنیایی که طبیعت را دوست دارد و این برای همه فرزندان جهان امن است. برای من که در تمام عمرش عمیقا تنها بوده ام، در کشوری که کودکان شاغل عدالت را نمی شناختند، تنها آرزوی من این است که دنیا جایی باشد که همه کودکان می توانند بچه باشند و عشق به مردم و طبیعت را درونی کنند و همه موجودات این وجود زیبا را دوست داشته باشند. و برای این همه عشق که تنها چیزی است که بعد از این زندگی کوتاه و دردناک بر جای گذاشته ام، در خیابان ها فریاد زدم که در کنار دانش آموزان کشورم که زیر باتوم و گلوله های جنگی بودند بایستم، فریاد زن، زندگی، آزادی می زدم. کودکانی که سال ها مجبور بودند و نمی ...
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 65.8 ms ] threadTortured. (The fact that I.R. of Iran routinely tortures political prisoners is beyond dispute.) No legal representation. No due process. Closed court. What else do you need to know?
> Anyways, as for freedom of women, what if it was all based on specious reasons?
Inform yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34274917
She was not the first innocent to be cut down in the flower of her youth. Our dear Jian Mahsa Amini's death in custody of the criminal state is not why Iranian are resolved to dispatch the theocratic regime "to the pages of history".
> I think people lose their sense and reason when it comes to such a vague concept like “freedom”? Freedom to what, from what, for what?
Freedom from oppression. Freedom from violent men and women in thrall of their own misunderstanding and entirely impervious to reason, common sense, decency, who insist at the pain of torture and death that others submit to their ignorance. Sufficient and frankly a demanding reason to motivate any sensible human being.
We Iranians have made a determination. The Islamic Republic must go.
> The reality of things is always different than what people think in the US, this is what traveling has taught me.
"Other"? Your travels have convinced you that there is no such thing as human being possessing of rights and deserving of respect divorced from local considerations.
Hear then the words of a poet saint of these "others", these Iranians, whose heroic struggle you seek to diminish and discount:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bani_AdamAs the previous author wrote, we know nothing about what really happened and the first victim in the information war between the West and Iran is the truth.
This has absolutely -nothing- to do with the “West”. Those tropes do not work anymore. No amount of whataboutism will whitewash the crimes of I.R. against Iran.
You claimed "Iranians want X". I asked you who made you a representative of Iranians. You - of course - failed to answer and come up with a BS reply.
As a member of Iranian diaspora, my deep conviction is that decisions regarding the removal of this national & spiritual abomination from Iran and its future political orientation are primarily in the hands of Iranians who have lived and continue to reside in occupied Iran. Per your stated personal family sketch, you should be well familiar with Bahareh Hedayati who addressed the issue of violence in context of revolution in her letter from Evin. She is not alone in declaring that there remains no possibility of reforming the abomination, and as you must know, she is merely one out of thousands of the best of Iranians who are now held, illegally, in dungeons of the occupying regime of the so-called Islamic Republic. If you wish to discuss the mechanics of revolution and what is or is not acceptable, it would be best to direct your thoughts to those quarters. As it is, your comment in HN casting shade using "violence" seems 'misplaced'.
I don’t support the government in charge there. However the peace OP brings up in their other comment is extremely important, They tell us every other month they want to attack Iran, they literally did so three times in 20th century, and twice in 19th (and much worse when including russia, which was aligned with the english against the french).
Iran has not initiated any war since 1820s, and was neutral in both world wars. People die in wars.
(^ That's him.)
This is a reasonable question. My understanding is that once they have their signed confessions they may allow some form of communication with an attorney and/or family.
https://www.dw.com/fa-ir/%D9%88%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%...
DW, a German news organ, which quotes that young man's attorney -- note this attorney is not permitted to participate in the judicial preceedings. "After his first visit with his client, reported his severe torture in captivity."
That attorney is the likely source.
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