{"id":138581,"date":"2026-05-31T09:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/138581\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T09:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:42:11","slug":"iran-rasht-revolutionary-court-sentences-zahra-tabari-to-death-once-again-on-charges-of-pmoi-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/138581\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Rasht Revolutionary Court Sentences Zahra Tabari to Death Once Again on Charges of PMOI Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFacebook<br \/>\nTwitter<br \/>\nLinkedIn<br \/>\nPinterest<br \/>\nReddit<br \/>\nEmail<br \/>\nPrint\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-243863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/NCRI.jpg\" alt=\"NCRI\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\"  \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218888 alignleft\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"NCRI logo\" width=\"75\" height=\"69\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/NCRI-50.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218888 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/NCRI-50.jpg\" alt=\"NCRI logo\" width=\"75\" height=\"69\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The Rasht Revolutionary Court has once again sentenced political prisoner Zahra Tabari to death. This criminal ruling was communicated to her in recent days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Zahra Tabari was first sentenced to death in November 2025 by the First Branch of the Rasht Revolutionary Court, presided over by the notorious judge Ahmad Darvish-Goftar, on the charge of armed rebellion (Baghi) through \u2018membership and activity in the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK).\u2019 This followed a sham ten-minute trial conducted via video conference and without a defense lawyer of her choice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Following widespread global protests against this criminal sentence, the mullahs\u2019 Supreme Court, in a theatrical move, referred her case for retrial to the Second Branch of the Rasht Revolutionary Court, presided over by henchman Mohammad Ali Darvish-Goftar, the son of Ahmad Darvish-Goftar. As expected, on April 14, 2026, this branch once again sentenced the political prisoner to death on the same charges. This criminal verdict was served to her this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwyxz5jken3o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Zahra Tabari<\/a>, 68, an electrical engineer with a Master\u2019s degree in sustainable energy from the University of Bor\u00e5s in Sweden, was arrested in April 2025 when security agents raided her home in Rasht. She had previously been arrested in June 2022 and sentenced to 18 months in prison.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The Iranian Resistance calls on the United Nations, its relevant bodies, the European Union, and its member states to take immediate action to save the lives of political prisoners facing death sentences, particularly Zahra Tabari, and to secure their immediate release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Secretariat of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/our-structure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">31 May 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit Email Print The Rasht Revolutionary Court has once again sentenced political prisoner Zahra&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,28939,14382,12985,28435],"class_list":["post-138581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-iran","tag-iran-execution","tag-iran-human-rights","tag-mek-iran","tag-ncri"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116668540059327729","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}