Urmia Prison: Kurdish Political Prisoner Soheila Mohammadi Granted Parole

Hengaw: Sunday, December 25, 2023

Soheila Mohammadi, a Kurdish political prisoner, has been conditionally released from Urmia Central Prison after serving over three years of her five-year sentence.

According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on the afternoon of Saturday, December 23, 2023, Soheila Mohammadi, a Kurdish female political prisoner from Selmas, was granted conditional release from the women's ward of Urmia's central prison after three years of imprisonment.

Soheila Mohammadi, who had been denied the right to leave, undertook multiple hunger strikes in the past three years to protest her situation and tragically attempted suicide.

In a previous report addressing Soheila Mohammadi's separation from her young child, Hengaw highlighted her worrying mental and physical condition resulting from the pressures of security institutions during the interrogation and detention period.

In March 2023, Soheila Mohammadi committed suicide by stabbing herself in the chest due to the pressure exerted by government security agencies and their hindrance in granting her leave and amnesty.

Arrested in the fall of 2021 in Selmas by the intelligence forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Soheila Mohammadi underwent several months of interrogation before being transferred to the women's ward of Urmia Central Prison.

She was subsequently sentenced to five years in prison by the first branch of the Revolutionary Court of Urmia on charges of being a member of the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK). Since then, she has been held in the women's ward of Urmia Central Prison without the right to use leave until her recent conditional release.