Sajad Shokri

Age: 27

Activities/Rights: Workers rights

Status: Released

Judicial status: Pardoned

Violations: Arbitrary arrest and detention, lack of due process, access to lawyer, unfair trial

Sajad Shokri is a worker and workers rights activist who was arrested on 6 August 2020 while walking home in Tehran and taken to Ward 2A of Evin Prison where he underwent interrogations until being transferred to the general ward on 12 August 2020. Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Afshari sentenced Sajad to three years imprisonment on charges of “assembly and collusion against national security” and a year for “propaganda against the system” for taking part in the 2019 May Day Rally. Sajad was released on bail on 15 December 2021. He was rearrested at his Karaj home on 11 June 2022 and transferred to Ward 2A of Evin Prison and released on bail on 23 June. Sajad’s case was closed on 8 February 2023 after he was included in the general amnesty list.