News Center- Zohreh Dadras, a women’s rights activist from Iran’s Gilan province, has returned to the Lakan Prison in Rasht after being temporarily released from prison for 10 days, her mother announced on Instagram on Monday.

Zohreh Dadras and her sister Zahra Dadras were arrested and transferred to Lakan prison by Iran’s security forces in Gilan on August 16 and 17, 2023. On September 17, 2023, Zohreh Dadras was released on bail from Lakan Prison while her sister Zahra Dadras was released on bail on October 1, 2023.

On March 1, 2024, she was sentenced to nine years, six months and two days in prison on charges of “forming a group to disrupt national security” and “assembly and collusion against national security.”

10 other women’s rights defenders, including Forough Saminia, Sara Jahani, Yasamin Hashdari, Shiva Shah Sia, Negin Rezaie, Azadeh Chavoshian, and Matin Yazdani, were each sentenced to six years and 47 days in prison on charges of “joining a group to act against national security.”

The 11th Branch of the Gilan Province Court of Appeals upheld her prison sentence on May 29,2024.

On July 10, 2024, Zohreh Dadras was arrested by Iran’s security forces and transferred to Lakan Prison in Rasht to serve her prison sentence.