Sharifeh Mohammadi, a labor activist from Rasht, who has been detained since December 2023 and has been imprisoned in the women’s ward of Lakan Prison in Rasht for 7 months, has been sentenced to execution by the Iranian judiciary on charges of “rebellion”
The Revolutionary Court of Rasht, under the leadership of Judges Ahmad Darvish Goftegari and Mehdi Rasakhi, has sentenced them to execution on charges of “rebellion” for their involvement in the coordination committee for the formation of labor unions and their alleged affiliation with the Komala Party”
This sentence has been issued based on Mohammadi’s membership in an independent, public, and legal labor organization that was established a decade ago.
The death sentence has been officially and personally delivered to Ms. Sharifeh Mohammadi’s lawyer, and the issued verdict can be appealed within 20 days at the Supreme Court of the country.
Sharifeh Mohammadi was violently arrested by intelligence agents at her home in Rasht on Wednesday, December 5, 2023. Over the past seven months, she has been held in central prisons in Sanandaj and Lakan in Rasht, as well as detention centers operated by the Intelligence Ministry in these two cities.
