(Beirut) – Iran’s Revolutionary Court has sentenced a labor activist to dying for “armed riot towards the state” primarily based on allegations of membership in an anti-government group, Human Rights Watch stated immediately. The court docket conveyed Sharife Mohamedi’s sentence to her husband, Sirous Fathi, on July 4, 2024, in response to a report by the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
HRANA reported on July 4 that intelligence brokers arrested Mohammadi at her house in Rasht on December 5, 2023. A supply near Mohammadi’s household informed HRANA that she was a member of the Trade Union Confederation till 2013. The group is unrelated to Komala, the Kurdish Social Democratic Party to which she is alleged to have belonged, which was beforehand concerned in armed battle inside Iran and nonetheless maintains an armed presence.
Mohammadi was born in East Azerbaijan and was a member of the Coordinating Committee for Supporting the Establishment of Workers’ Organizations, which was established in 2005 by a number of Kurdish activists to assist and promote the institution of unbiased labor organizations. Iranian safety companies have, with out proof, attributed the committee to the Komala Group. The committee’s founders and members have been arrested and imprisoned a number of occasions, however none have been charged with “armed riot towards the state.”
“We stand with Sharife Mohammadi and all these beneath risk of the dying penalty,” 16 feminine political prisoners from Evin Prison wrote in a July 9 letter. “Labor activist Sharife Mohammadi was sentenced to dying after seven months of detention, torture and interrogation primarily based on unfounded accusations,” the letter stated. One of the signatories was Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi.
The concentrating on of ethnic and spiritual minorities is obvious in state repression in areas resembling Kurdistan and Sistan-Baluchistan. Two different Kurdish ladies political activists, Pakhan Azizi and Walisha Moradi, are on trial in Tehran on costs of “armed riot towards the state.”
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported that intelligence businesses arrested Moradi, a member of the Free Women’s Association of East Kurdistan (KJAR), in Kermanshah on August 1, 2023. She can also be accused of “armed riot towards the state.”
KHRN stated she was subjected to stress and threats to power her to admit. On 26 December 2023, after 5 months in solitary confinement, she was transferred to the ladies’s ward of Evin Prison. She continues to be denied the appropriate to make cellphone calls and see her household.
According to KHRN, intelligence businesses arrested Azizi on August 4, 2023, on suspicion of “armed riot towards the state.” She was arrested by safety forces in 2009 throughout a protest at Tehran University by Kurdish college students towards political executions in Kurdistan. She was launched on bail after 4 months of detention. Several members of her household had been additionally detained however launched after a number of days of interrogation. She has not been allowed entry to a lawyer and is beneath risk and stress to admit, in response to KHRN.
Zina Modares Golgi, a journalist and girls’s rights activist from Sanandaj, was sentenced to 21 years in jail and exile by the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj in May 2024. She was charged with “creating an unlawful group with the purpose of overthrowing the state,” “collaborating with hostile organizations and the federal government,” and “propaganda towards the state.”