Sharifh Mohammadi has been in jail since December 2023. The 46 -year -old activist and engineer is accused of “armed rebellion against the state” in Iran. She now faces execution again.
Already, in the early 2024 and 2025, it was killed twice, in August, the Supreme Court once again upheld the verdict.
His commitment to workers’ rights brought him to the attention of the authorities. She was a member of a committee for the formation of laboratory organizations in the Northern Iranian coastal city rash on the Caspian Sea, where she worked and lived with her family including a 13 -year -old son. The government considers the committee a “opposition group”.
Under the Iranian criminal law, three officials punished by death: War against war (Mohlebeh), corruption on earth, and rebellion (rebel), lawyer Marzi Mohebi told DW. “The relevant articles of the law are so vaguely words that judges can apply them to almost any form of opposition or political activity.”
Mohebi has been living in exile in France for two years. In Iran, she created a network of female lawyers who represented women imprisoned with allegations or under difficult conditions.
In September 2022, there were nationwide protests after the death of 22 -year -old Jina Mahsa Amini in police custody. Amini was allegedly not wearing a mandatory head for women to cover properly. The development of a movement under the slogan became a symbol of “women, life, freedom”, compulsory headscarf and resistance to systematic discrimination against women.
Several women lawyers were arrested during a systematic repression of demonstrations. A court in the North Iranian city of Mashad initiated proceedings against Mohebi before he could provide legal aid for the protesters who were arrested.
Unclear law, rigid punishment
Mohebi said, “It is not difficult to quickly turn common people into ‘criminals’.” “This practice is not a constitutional process based on the laws made by the Islamic Republic, but the expression of the desire of governance to suppress any form of civil activity on the pretext of security. The suppression of domestic opposition as its most important task.”
Sharif Mohammadi is a laboratory right activist, feminist and rival to the death penalty. After his arrest in 2023, his family did not know why it was just the hero or months. Mohammadi later reported that he spent more than 200 days in solitary imprisonment, where he was tortured and abused.
In June 2024, in Rasht, the court killed Mohammadi for “rebel”. A High Court overturned the verdict in October 2024 and ordered a return. But after a new test, the death sentence was upheld in February 2025.
“Under the laws of the Islamic Republic, a rebellious is a person who has been directly involved in the armed rebellion against the government,” said social and sex researcher Fatmeh Karimi. “On the other hand, Sharifah had no relation with armed works. There is no evidence of this. What did Shaif do to the activity of the Sangh in the context of laboratory opposition, which in any way does not match the criminal definition of the rebellion.”
Iran and beyond criticism
Human rights organizations have reported serious procedural flaws in their prosecution, called a politically motivated test.
For example, the sentences of death were handed over by two different judges who are first-degree relatives. Ahmed Darwish-Gaoft, President of Criminal Court 1, Chairman of Criminal Court 2 is the son of Judge Mohammad Ali Darwish-Goftar.
The case has criticized international international international. Several European trade unions, including the International Trade Union Confederation along with Germany, France and Sweden, have called the verdict for reversal and immediate release of Mohammadi.
The criticism of his death sentence is also increasing within Iran. The Iranian teachers trade union described the verdict as “inhuman and unjust” in a statement, described as a means of spreading fear and suppressing collective labor movements.
So in early August, a Chinese Can Factory rotates a video on the internet of a peaceful meeting, where the participants demanded a fair test for Mohammadi. The Works Council of Habit Topah is one of the most active voices against sugarcane agro-industry company Daman and in support of workers’ rights.
Amnesty International and many Iranian and International Human Rights Organizations have called for an immediate withdrawal of death sentence.
This article was original in German.