IRAN - Sharifeh Mohammadi

IRAN - Sharifeh Mohammadi's death sentence overeturned

October 12, 2024:

October 12, 2024 - IRAN. Sharifeh Mohammadi removed from death row after court ruling
Iran's Supreme Court has ordered a retrial for labor rights activist Sharifeh Mohammadi and lifted her death sentence, her lawyer said on Saturday.
"The Supreme Court has overturned the verdict against my client," lawyer Amir Raisian was cited by the reformist Shargh daily as saying.
Mohammadi had been accused of being a member of the Kamala party, an Iraq-based Kurdish separatist group that is designated as a terrorist organization by Iranian authorities.
She was sentenced to death in early July following her arrest in Iran's northern Gilan region.
Kurdish people traditionally inhabit parts of southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, western Iran and northeastern Syria. Tehran has long accused exiled Iranian Kurdish groups based in Iraq of fomenting unrest in Iran.
Iran is still affected by months of protest triggered by the September 2022 death of Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini. She died in police custody after she was accused of failing to properly observe the country's strict dress code for women. Multiple people have been sentenced to death over involvement in the protests.

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