Zeinab Hamrang, a former political prisoner, is rearrested in Tehran
Former political prisoner Zeinab Hamrang Seyyed Beglu was arrested by security forces on Sunday, March 12, 2023, as she was leaving home. The agents took her to an unknown location.
Ms. Hamrang was released in October before the completion of her sentence.
Zeinab Hamrang Seyyed Beglu, 46, is a retired teacher from Ardabil who resides in Tehran. She was arrested in Khoy in September 2020 while traveling to West Azerbaijan. On September 6, 2020, she was transferred to the women’s ward of Evin Prison.
In September 2022, Zeinab Hamrang went on a hunger and medicine strike to protest the Evin Prison authorities’ failure to observe the principle of the separation of crimes in the women’s ward of Evin and also in protest to the severe beating of prisoners.
The Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced Zeinab Hamrang to five years on “assembly and collusion” charges and one year on the charge of “propaganda against the state.”
According to the Article 134 of the clerical regime’s Penal Code, the five-year sentence applied to her.
Ms. Hamrang suffered from high blood pressure and kidney problems during her time in detention. She was also among those prisoners who contracted Covid-19. The prison authorities, however, did not agree to grant her medical leave.
No information is available on her place of detention and the reason for her rearrest.
