Zhina (or Jina) Modares Gorji is an Iranian book seller, and feminist podcaster in the city of Sanandaj.
Gorji is a Baroch woman who was a book seller in the Iranian city of Sanandaj.
[3] In May 2024 Gorji learned that she had been sentenced by the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court to twenty-one years in jail.
[4] Gorji's case was taken up by Mary Lawlor who is the United Nation's Special Rapporteur on Human Rights.
Lawlor believes that the charges against her arise from Gorji's legitimate activities of encouraging girls to form book groups and to write blogs.