The Kurdistan Province Court of Appeal has reduced the prison sentence of Srwa Pour-Mohammadi, a Kurdish language teacher and board member of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association, from 10 years to five years.
The decision was delivered to Pour-Mohammadi’s lawyers on 25 November.
In November 2023, Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, presided over by Judge Karami, sentenced her to 10 years of imprisonment on charges of “forming groups with the aim of undermining national security”.
Pour-Mohammadi was initially arrested on 29 January 2023 by security forces at the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court while seeking information about the status of detained members of the Nozhin Association.
After spending 15 days in detention, she was provisionally released on bail from Sanandaj Prison on 13 February 2023.
