the total number of detainees during the nationwide uprising in Iran is estimated at 6,000.
in this post I will talk about some of them.
(tw:beating) this is Armita Abbasi. she is 20 years old, she was last seen in a hospital after her arrest because she was reportedly beaten with a baton. her whereabouts are unknown.
this is Saeed Heleichi, an Arab poet and activist. he was arrested on October 19.
this is Soheil Khoshdel, a 17 yo protester who was arrested and sent to a correctional center just because of protesting.
this is Samane Asqari, a children rights activist. the police officers introduced themselves as employees of water department so they can enter her house and arrest her.
this is Badi’ Khaze’i. he was arrested alongside his friends. after realizing that he’s a follower of Baha’i religion, the police transferred him to Evin prison of Tehran which is 792 miles away from his hometown.
Elnaz Rekabi, a climber who refused to wear the hijab in a competition is reportedly under house arrest.
(tw: beating and torture) this is the moment of Hossein Ronaghi’s arrest. he has been arrested several times over the past 20 years. this time he was arrested for being interviewed by an anti-regime broadcasting station. he was violently taken away by the police in front of a courthouse. he was going to turn himself in but he was still beaten by the police. both of his legs are broken and he has been tortured for days without any treatment. he’s also on a hunger strike.
this is Atrin Azarfar. she’s a Kurdish graphic designer who was arrested on October 19. her whereabouts are unknown.
this is Fatemeh Sepehri, a political and women’s rights activist. she was arrested because of her interview with an anti-regime tv station. she has been kept in a solitary confinement since September 21.
this is Niloofar Hamedi, a journalist who reported Jina Amini’s murder and shared a photo of her parents. she’s been arrested for doing her job.
say their names, talk about them.
I make a small amount of passive income via YouTube now (~$400 a year) and I can see why people lose their mind leaning into it. It feels pretty good to get random cash.
Some of Syd Mead’s concept paintings for V’Ger from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. His first pieces of movie concept art, they’re the direct result of director Robert Wise’s demand that the movie show an object that “no man had ever seen.”
LOL yep that’s the day job! I started last year after graduating, working on the NASA side of things with the mission doing social media/outreach, so I’m going to do my obligatory HUBBY LINK DROP: insta, twitter, fb
“The Reaper’s Image” by Stephen King (1969) “I’m afraid I might look into it one
day and see… what the rest of them saw.”
A surprisingly tame story from King that hearkens back to 19th century tales of curiosity.
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“Seed” by Fiona Staples, Jose Villarrubia, Michael Dougherty, Todd Casey, Zach Shields, Marc Andreyko (2015) “For this is not a woman but a demon with no soul to save.”
I remember Trick ‘r Treat being more jokey with its anthology format, but this was just a straightforward historical horror tale. But I liked the sincerity and will certainly return to this book later.
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Celia dir. Ann Turner (1989) “Swear on my living heart, blood will never part.”
This is in the same realm of horror as Pan’s Labyrinth, which is to say more dark fantasy than scary. A child in scary circumstances must cope in ways we tend to forget.
