Zahra Mohammadi, a Kurdish language teacher, transferred to Sanandaj Prison to serve her sentence
10-January-2022
Category: Freedom of Expression، Prisoners، Women
9-January-2022
Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Women – Prisoners –
Breathing in Confinement: On Saturday, January 8, 2022, after appearing in the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj, Zahra Mohammadi, a Kurdish language teacher from Sanandaj, was arrested and transferred to the women’s ward of the Correctional Center to serve her five-year sentence. A number of civil activists and citizens of Sanandaj gathered in front of the Sanandaj courthouse to accompany and support her.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on Saturday, January 8, 2022, after appearing in the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj, Zahra Mohammadi, a civil activist and a member of the Sanandaj Nozhin Association, was arrested and transferred to women’s ward of the city’s correctional center to serve her five-year sentence.
Zahra Mohammadi was arrested by security agents on May 23, 2019, and on December 2 of the same year, she was temporarily released from Sanandaj Prison on bail of 700 million Tomans, awaiting the trial.
Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj sentenced Zahra Mohammadi to ten years in prison on charge of “forming a group against national security.” However, in February 2021, Ms. Mohammadi’s sentence was reduced to five years in prison by Branch 4 of the Court of Appeals in Kurdistan Province, presided over by Judge Mostafa Tayyari.
Following the rejection of her request for retrial by the Supreme Court, she was summoned to the Sentence Implementation Unit in Sanandaj.
Zahra Mohammadi has been voluntarily teaching Kurdish language for ten years in Sanandaj as well as its surrounding villages.
Zahra Mohammadi living in Sanandaj, is 30 years old and originally from Sarvala Dehgolan village. She is holding a master’s degree in geopolitics from Birjand University.