Omid Shah-Mohammadi, a member of the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union in Divandarreh, Kurdistan Province, has been released from Bijar Prison with an electronic monitoring device in recent days.
As part of the conditions of his release, Shah-Mohammadi is subject to a travel restriction of one kilometre from his family home in the city of Divandarreh, Kurdistan province, until the end of his one-year sentence on 16 December.
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 15 billion Iranian rials – nearly 30,000 USD.
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.
On 8 April, he was sent to Bijar Prison to serve the one-year prison sentence.
