Srwa Pour-Mohammadi, a Kurdish language teacher and board member of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association, was sent to Sanandaj Central Prison on 19 April to begin serving a five-year sentence.

Pour-Mohammadi was summoned last week to the Enforcement of Judgements Office at the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, and was detained after appearing before the authorities.

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”.

The sentence was later reduced to five years by the Kurdistan Province Court of Appeal in late November 2024.

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.