News Center- Journalist Pakhshan Azizi, who was sentenced to death on July 23, 2024 and imprisoned in Evin prison, sent a letter from Evin prison on the second anniversary of the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” uprising that sparked in Iran and Rojhilat following the killing of Jina Mahsa Amini by Iran’s so-called “morality police” in Tehran. “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi is a philosophy of life,” Pakhshan Azizi said in the letter, vowing to strengthen the women’s struggle for freedom.

‘The 21st century will be the century of women's revolution’

Pakhshan Azizi pointed to women’s leading role in society, stressing that the social role of men should be redefined and there is no happiness for both sexes until gender equality is achieved. “The struggle for gender-based equality is an ethical-political struggle against sexism that has become a tool of governments,” her letter said, stressing that the 21st century will be “the century of women’s revolution.”

‘People are determined to ensure freedom’

Under current conditions, redesigning and reforming existing systems is insufficient to ensure freedom, Pakhshan Azizi stressed in her letter. “The systems must be completely changed. Women's Revolution is not an action for reform, but for a radical, theoretical and scientific action. As women, we have common sense and language. We are capable of making radical and comprehensive changes if we fight against the patriarchal mindset together, in solidarity with each other.”

‘The philosophy of Jin, Jiyan, Azadi is not a philosophy of death but of life’

 “Ignoring women is an ideological approach and that a strong ideological struggle should be waged against it,” Pakhshan Azizi said, emphasizing that sexism, scientism, religionism and nationalism target the whole society by targeting women.

“The philosophy of Jin, Jiyan, Azadi is not a philosophy of death but of life. It is a scientific revolution actualized by Jineology. This philosophy embraced by people must not be allowed to be deflected at any price. For our revolutionary martyrs, we should build a society that creates democratic families, preserves its culture, and has revolutionary consciousness.”