The court session for jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi was held in branch 29 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran without her presence.

The court convened on Saturday to address the new charges of "propaganda against the state" brought upon Mohammadi because of her statements about sexual harassment and assault on Dina Ghalibaf and boycotting parliament elections held in March, according to her lawyer, Mostafa Nili.

Nili said on X that he attended the court session as Mohammadi’s lawyer defending her case without her presence.

Mohammadi's Instagram page also published a post stating that she did not go to court and that her trial session was held without her.

Last week, it was announced on her Instagram page that she would not be attending the court session and an online petition was started demanding a public trial.

When the new charges were first announced in May, Mohammadi announced that she would only attend the court if the session was held in a public trial.

“You are obligated to hold a public trial with the presence of independent journalists, women's rights activists, human rights advocates, and my lawyers. I wish to be prosecuted in court with the testimony of witnesses of the sexual assaults committed by the Islamic Republic regime against women,” Mohammadi stated in a message sent from prison published on her Instagram page.

Her demand for a public trial was supported by 36 female political and ideological prisoners at Evin prison.