Golaleh Vatandoost and Sohaila Motaei, two women’s rights activists and former detainees of the Jina Revolutionary Movement, have been released from Sanandaj Central Prison under electronic monitoring.
According to Kolbarnews, on Sunday, June 21, 2026, Sohaila Motaei, a women’s rights activist from Dehgolan, was released from the women’s ward of Sanandaj Central Prison after serving nine days of imprisonment through the use of an electronic ankle monitor.
Sohaila Motaei had been arrested on Saturday, June 13, 2026, after being summoned to the Dehgolan Sentence Enforcement Office and appearing there to begin serving her sentence. She was subsequently transferred to Sanandaj Central Prison to serve her term of imprisonment.
On the evening of Monday, March 10, 2025, following her participation in an International Women’s Day ceremony in Sanandaj, she was arrested by Intelligence Department forces in Dehgolan and was temporarily released one week later on bail. In December 2025, the Criminal Court of Dehgolan convicted her of “propaganda against the system” and “publishing content in media outlets outside Iran,” sentencing her to a total of six months of discretionary imprisonment and three years of suspended imprisonment.
In a separate case, Sohaila Motaei had previously been sentenced in June 2025 by Branch 102 of the Second Criminal Court of Dehgolan to three months of discretionary imprisonment and three years of suspended imprisonment on charges of “propaganda in favor of groups or organizations opposed to the Islamic Republic.”
During the Jina Revolutionary Movement, she was arrested twice and sentenced to a total of 60 months of imprisonment. After serving part of her sentence, she was granted amnesty and released from prison.
Meanwhile, Golaleh Vatandoost, a licensed attorney and women’s and children’s rights activist from Marivan, was also released from Sanandaj Central Prison under electronic monitoring after serving approximately one month of imprisonment.
Golaleh Vatandoost had been arrested on May 2, 2026, to begin serving a sentence of six years, seven months, and twenty days of imprisonment and was transferred to Sanandaj Central Prison. She had previously been sentenced by Branch One of the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj on charges of “propaganda against the system,” “acting against national security,” and “membership in groups opposed to the system.”
This attorney had also been arrested by security forces on October 3, 2022, during the nationwide protests and the Jina Revolutionary Movement in Sanandaj.
