Women's rights activist Tina Deljou arrested to serve one-year prison sentence

Hengaw – Saturday, May 30, 2026

Iranian authorities have arrested Tina Deljou, a Gilak women's rights activist and university lecturer, and transferred her to Rasht Central Prison (Lakan Prison) to serve a one-year prison sentence.

According to information received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Deljou was arrested on Saturday, May 30, 2026, and taken to the women's ward of Lakan Prison in Rasht to begin serving the sentence.

Branch 3 of the Rasht Revolutionary Court had previously sentenced Deljou to one year in prison on charges of "propaganda against the state." The verdict was later upheld in full by the appeals court.

This marks the third case brought against the civil activist since the Woman, Life, Freedom (Jin, Jiyan, Azadi) movement in 2022 to reach the sentence enforcement stage.

Deljou, who holds a PhD in Political Thought, has repeatedly faced prosecution because of her civil and women's rights activities. In a separate case during the winter of 2023, she was sentenced to another one-year prison term on the same charge of "propaganda against the state." After serving 40 days in prison, she completed the remainder of that sentence under electronic monitoring with an ankle bracelet.

She was also sentenced to seven months in prison in a separate case on charges of "spreading false information regarding the serial poisoning of school students." Having completed both the electronic monitoring period related to the first case and the sentence imposed in the second case, Deljou has now been transferred to Lakan Prison to serve the one-year sentence issued in her third case.