Breathing in Confinement

After her request for retrial was rejected, Zahra Mohammadi was summoned to serve her sentence

3-January-2022

Category: ethnic minorities، Prisoners، Women

 

2-January-2022

Newsgroup: Ethnic Minorities – Women – Prisoners –

Breathing in Confinement: After her request for  retrial was rejected by the Supreme Court, Zahra Mohammadi, a civil activist and Kurdish language teacher, was summoned to the Sentence Implementation Unit of the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj. Zahra Mohammadi had been sentenced by Sanandaj Court to 10 years in prison in February 2021. The sentence however, was reduced to five years by the Court of Appeals.

 

According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, after the Supreme Court rejected her request for retrial, Zahra Mohammadi, a civil activist, and Kurdish language teacher, was summoned by Sanandaj Court to serve her sentence. She has previously been sentenced to five years in prison on appeal.

 

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.” She was notified of her sentence via a text message on July 12, 2020. 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.

 

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.