Hamideh Zaraei was arrested and transferred to Lakan Prison of Rasht.
On Wednesday, June 5, 2024, Hamideh Zeraii was arrested after visiting the 13th branch of the Rasht Revolutionary Court in northern Iran. She was swiftly transferred to Lakan Prison in Rasht.
Recently, Hamideh Zeraii was summoned to the same court to provide explanations. However, her appearance led to her immediate arrest and subsequent transfer back to Lakan prison.
Following a two-year banishment sentence to Rasht, Hamideh had to report to the 14 Golsar police station at three-day intervals. The police officers imposed a condition: she must wear a veil during her visits, but Hamideh, a staunch opponent of mandatory hijab, protested this requirement.
Defiantly refusing to declare her presence in the city to which she had been exiled, Hamideh was summoned again to the 13th branch of the Rasht Revolutionary Court.
On May 29, 2023, security forces arrested Hamideh Zeraii at her home and took her to Kachouii prison in Karaj. In November, she received a harsh sentence from the 1st branch of the Revolutionary Court in Karaj: One year of imprisonment; two years of exile to Rasht, the capital of Gilan Province in northern Iran; two years of travel ban, and two years of internet restriction.
Her prison sentence was eventually reduced to 9 months after she submitted to the verdict.
On February 22, after serving her prison term, Hamideh Zeraii was released from Kachouii prison in Karaj. Simultaneously, her two-year exile to Rasht was executed.
Hamideh Zarai, 37 and from Rasht, was a master’s student in the Research Sciences branch at Tehran Azad University. On November 3, 2023, security forces arrested her during the fortieth-day commemoration of Hadis Najafi in Karaj. However, on February 7, 2023, following the regime’s amnesty show, she was released from the Kachouii Prison of Karaj.
