[3][4] On December 21, 2009, she was arrested once again along with several other activists who were on their way to the city of Qom to attend the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri.

Since her arrest, the court proceeding has met with strong international criticism, the allegation being that it was an illegal measure taken by the Islamic Republic of Iran to further repress the rights of dissent and freedom of speech in the country, and her immediate release has been called for.

[12] A number of organizations call for her immediate release – Reporters without borders, World association of newspapers and news publishers or PEN International.

[13][14] Since October 2018 Shiva Nazar Ahari has been living in Ljubljana (Slovenia), where she resettled with the help of the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN).

[15] On Sunday, March 13, 2011, it was announced that Shiva Nazar Ahari was the 2011 recipient of the Theodor Haecker Prize [de] for "courageous internet reporting on human rights violations".