Overview
- Rights groups report that Mohammadi was detained on December 12 while attending the seventh-day memorial for human-rights lawyer Khosrow Alikordi.
- Her foundation and family say security forces beat her and transferred her to a facility run by the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence unit, a claim not independently verified in the reports.
- Several activists and lawyers were also detained at the ceremony, including Sepideh Gholian, Hasti Amiri, Pouran Nazemi and Alieh Motalebzadeh, according to the foundation.
- Mohammadi has been serving a combined sentence for national-security charges and had been on medical leave from Tehran’s Evin prison since December 2024.
- She has previously stated she would not return to custody voluntarily and has reported receiving direct and indirect death threats from intelligence agents.