Zhina Modares Gorji Archives - KHRN

September 22, 2025

Kurdish women’s rights activist released after serving prison term

Kurdish journalist and women’s rights activist Zhina Modares Gorji has been released from prison in Sanandaj after completing a 16-month sentence. Her sentence, which also took into account time

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July 4, 2025

Kurdish political prisoner denied rights amid harsh prison conditions

Zhina Modares Gorji, a Kurdish journalist and prominent women’s rights activist, remains imprisoned eight months into a 16-month sentence, with only one period of leave granted since the start of

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October 7, 2024

Kurdish activist’s 21-year sentence reduced to two years, four months

Zhina Modares Gorji, a journalist and prominent women’s rights activist from Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has had her 21-year prison sentence reduced to two years and four months by an appeals

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May 27, 2024

Sanandaj court sentences women’s rights activist to 21 years

Zhina Modares Gorji, a journalist and women's rights activist, has been sentenced to a total of 21 years in prison by Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province,

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April 16, 2024

Activist’s bookstore sealed over ‘non-compliance with Islamic hijab’

Municipal authorities in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, today sealed off a bookstore called Zhira, citing "non-compliance with Islamic hijab", the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has

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September 13, 2023

Trial held for lawyer, journalist linked to last year’s protests

The trial of lawyer Golaleh Vatandoust and journalist Zhina Modares Gorji has taken place over the past two days at Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan

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July 3, 2023

Activist Zhina Modares Gorji released on hefty bail in Sanandaj

Prominent women’s rights activist and journalist Zhina Modares Gorji was today temporarily released from the Juvenile Detention Centre of Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, after 84 days of detention on

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June 26, 2023

Detained activist Zhina Modares Gorji faces new charges

Prominent women's rights activist and journalist Zhina Modares Gorji, who has been detained since 10 April, has been charged with "collaborating with a hostile state". On 21 June, Gorji was

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June 15, 2023

Detention of activist Zhina Modares Gorji extended for 10 more days

The temporary detention of prominent women's rights activist and journalist Zhina Modares Gorji was extended for another 10 days on 14 June. Modares Gorji was arrested for the second time on 10

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