Servenaz AHMADI

Iranian translator, journalist, and human rights defender Sarvenaz Ahmadi continued to be subjected to a travel ban and was unable to hold book launches in 2025.  She was conditionally released on 29 December 2024 after serving about 19 months of a six-year prison sentence on national security charges believed to be linked to her writings and reporting on the ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ mass protest movement triggered by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in custody on 16 September 2022 (see Case List 2025).  

Ahmadi, born in 1998, is known for her journalistic work and advocacy for children's rights. She has also translated several books into Persian, including ‘Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle,’ by Silvia Federici (PM Press, 2012)and ‘Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community‘ by Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James (Falling Wall Press, 1972).