Asal Mohammadi
Age: 36
Activities/Rights: Workers rights/Haft Tappeh case
Status: Released
Judicial status: Pardoned
Violations: Arbitrary arrest and detention, prolonged solitary confinement, torture and ill-treatment, access to lawyer, lack of due process, unfair trial
Asal Mohammadi is a worker’s rights activist and a nurse who is studying for a PhD in pharmacology. She was part of a group of four journalists and editorial staff from Gam Magazine who covered the Workers Union of Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Company strikes which led to her arrest on 4 December 2018. In September 2019, she was sentenced to 18 years in prison by Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Moghiseh. Asal was released on a bail of 2 billion tomans on 2 November 2019. The Tehran Court of Appeals reduced her sentence to five years in December 2019. In January 2020, another case was opened against her for “continuing her activism.” Asal was arrested again at the May Day Rally in 2021 and released hours later. On 6 November, she filed a complaint against the Ministry of Intelligence for her unlawful detention in solitary confinement along with tens of other activists. Hours later, she was arrested at her home with Hirad Pirbodaghi and transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison. She was released on a bail of 500 million tomans on November 22. On 30 January 2022, Asal was sentenced to a year and eight months imprisonment on charges of “assembly and collusion to disrupt national security by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court which was upheld by Branch 36 of the Appeals Court on 27 April 2022. She began serving her sentence in Evin Prison on 11 July that year.
Asal was released after being included in the general amnesty list on 7 February 2023. She was rearrested while visiting Mohammad Habibi’s family along with other activists on 28 April 2023 and released on bail on 8 May.