News Center- 55 female political prisoners held in Evin Prison announced on Wednesday that they would start a hunger strike on Thursday (July 11) to protest the death sentence against labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi and support her.

Labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi was violently arrested at her home in Rasht by intelligence forces on December 5, 2023. After being held in the central prisons of Sanandaj and Lakan Rasht for seven months, she was sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court in Rasht on charges of “armed rebellion against the state” on July 4, 2024.