Hajer Saeidi, a labor and women’s rights activist from Sanandaj, has served 7 months and 7 days of her one-year prison sentence in the women’s ward of Sanandaj prison.
According to Kolbarnews, Hajer Saeidi was arrested on May 18, 2023, by Sanandaj Intelligence officers while visiting the family of Hooman Abdollahi, a victim of the Jina revolutionary uprising, along with other labor activists from Sanandaj. During her detention by Sanandaj Intelligence, Ms. Saeidi faced charges of “assembly and collusion through forming a communist cell to incite families of the deceased to commit criminal acts” and “actions against national security.”
She was temporarily released on bail of 3 billion tomans after spending a month in Sanandaj Intelligence’s detention facility. Judge Saeidi of the first branch of the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj sentenced her to two years of imprisonment on these charges.
The 4th branch of the Sanandaj Court of Appeal reduced her sentence to “one year of imprisonment.” On the afternoon of Saturday, November 18, 2023, Hajer Saeidi was arrested after being summoned to the 4th branch of the Penal Enforcement Court of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Sanandaj. She was then transferred to the women’s ward of Sanandaj prison to serve her one-year sentence.
