Environmental activist Tahereh Soleimani arrested to serve sentence

Hengaw — Saturday, February 7, 2026

Tahereh Soleimani, a Kurdish environmental activist and one of those detained during the Woman, Life, Freedom (Jin, Jiyan, Azadi) movement in Kermanshah (Kermashan), has been arrested and transferred to Kermanshah Prison to serve a three-month and ten-day prison sentence.

Based on information obtained by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Soleimani, a mother of two from Kermanshah, was summoned on Saturday to the court’s sentence-enforcement branch, where she was taken into custody and transferred to the women’s ward of Kermanshah Prison.

She had previously been sentenced to three months and ten days in prison on charges of “propaganda against the state through sending images and criminal content to opposition groups,” according to the ruling issued by Iran’s judiciary.

Soleimani was first detained on December 9, 2022, during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in Kermanshah. During that arrest, she sustained a fractured hand as a result of severe violence by Iranian government forces and was held in detention for nearly 19 days.

She was arrested again on August 24, 2025, during a separate incident involving the use of force, during which her mobile phone and personal laptop were confiscated.