Civil rights activist Shilan Kurdistani has been sentenced in recent days to a total of 40 months of suspended imprisonment in Iran.

Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, sentenced her to 40 months in prison as follows: two years and nine months for “membership of an illegal group” for her membership of the Zhivano Women’s Association, and seven months in jail for “propaganda against the state”.

Under Article 134 of the Low on Consolidation of Sentences, two years and nine months of this sentence, suspended for three years, will apply.

Kurdistani, an interpreter and member of the Zhivano Women’s Association, was arrested in Sanandaj on 23 October 2022 and released on bail from the city’s juvenile detention centre two weeks later.