Isfahan: Sister of Mahmoud Mehrabi, a political prisoner sentenced to death, arrested along with her two young children

Hengaw: Tuesday, June 18, 2023

Maryam Mehrabi, the sister of Mahmoud Mehrabi, a political prisoner sentenced to death, was arrested by the Iranian government forces in Isfahan and taken to an undisclosed location.

According to the report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, Maryam Mehrabi, Mahmoud Mehrabi's sister, was arrested by the Iranian government forces at her home in Isfahan, along with her two young children, 11-year-old Setareh Bakhtyarvand and 8-year-old Sogol Bakhtyarvand.

Also, these forces inspected her house, confiscated her personal belongings including her computer and mobile phone, and took them with them. 

Maryam Mehrabi's arrest took place after she announced in a video message that if her brother's death sentence is not revoked, she will set herself on fire in front of the office of the Friday prayer Imam in Mubarakeh City, Isfahan province.

Mahmoud Mehrabi, the 35-year-old brother of Maryam Mehrabi and a political prisoner from Mubarakeh, was previously sentenced to death by the fifth branch of Isfahan’s Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court on the charge of "corruption on earth."

This political prisoner was arrested by the Iranian government forces in Isfahan on February 1, 2023, and was released from Isfahan’s Dastgerd prison (central prison) on March 16, 2023, after posting bail. A few hours after his release, he was arrested again and returned to prison.