Labor activist Nahid Khodajoo was transferred to Evin prison to serve her five-year sentence.
Nahid Khodajoo lives in Tehran and is a retired worker. On Wednesday, February 21, 2024, she was arrested by security forces at the house of one of her friends in Fardis Karaj and taken to Evin Prison in Tehran.
Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Nahid Khodajoo to six years in prison and 74 lashes on charges of “assembly and collusion to act against national security” and “disturbing public order and peace” on October 10, 2019. The sentence was upheld by the Revision Court and the longest duration of imprisonment, i.e. 5 years in this case, is enforceable.
Nahid Khodajoo was arrested on May 1, 2019, on the International Labor Day, during a protest gathering outside the mullahs’ parliament. On June 3, 2019, she was temporarily released on bail until the final determination of her case.
In another development, the order for the expulsion of a Teachers’ Union Activist, Sara Siahpour, was upheld.
On Tuesday, February 20, 2024, the Coordination Council of the Union of Iranian Educators announced that the Appeals Department of the Violations Board of the Ministry of Education has approved the dismissal of Sara Siahpour, one of the teachers active in Tehran and Alborz provinces.
In July 2023, a Judiciary Revision Court upheld the sentence of 6 years in prison for Mrs. Siahpour. She was sentenced to 5 years in prison on the charge of “assembly and collusion against national security” and to one year on the charge of “propaganda against the state.”
In addition, she has been banned from leaving the country for two years and from being a member of political parties, groups and organizations, and from using the cyberspace for two years.
Sara Siahpour, with 17 years of teaching experience, was arrested by IRGC intelligence agents on August 24, 2022, and was temporarily released on bail sometime later.
The charges included in the dismissal order of Mrs. Siahpour include “participating in teachers’ rallies and sit-ins.”
