Omid Shah-Mohammadi, a member of the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union in Divandarreh, Kurdistan province, was sent to Bijar Prison on 8 April to serve a one-year prison sentence.
The activist was arrested after being summoned to the Enforcement of Judgements Office of the Divandarreh Court.
In December 2022, the Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, sentenced Shah-Mohammadi to five years in prison on charges of “acting against national security” through membership in a Kurdish opposition party.
The Court of Appeals of the Kurdistan province later commuted the sentence to one year in prison and four years of suspended imprisonment.
Security forces arrested Shah-Mohammadi and three other teachers’ union activists, Parviz Ahsani, Kaveh Mohammadzadeh and Hiva Ghoreishi, on 15 June 2022 at their houses in Divandarreh for their union activities and participation in a teachers’ union sit-in protest.
The four activists were temporarily released after 76 days of detention in the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Sanandaj, each with a bail of 1.5 billion tomans – nearly 30,000 USD.
