Human rights activist Nahid Khodajo was arrested and transferred to Evin Prison, according to human rights media.
According to the reports of HRANA and the Iranian Free Workers Union, Nahid Khodajo, a labor activist, was detained on Thursday, February 21st at her friends’ house in Fardis, Karaj, and transferred to Evin Prison to serve a five-year prison sentence.
Ms. Khodajo was arrested on April 30, 2019, during a demonstration on International Workers’ Day in front of the parliament building. She was released on bail a month later, but then in August of the same year, she was sentenced to six years in prison and 74 lashes for assembly, collusion, disrupting public order, and disturbing public peace in Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court. The sentence was upheld on appeal, and five years of it are now being enforced.
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