Fatemeh Ziaei, 68, is a political prisoner of the 1980s, who has spent 13 years in the Iranian regime’s prisons and suffers from MS
On Wednesday evening, August 6, 2025, the Iranian regime’s suppressive forces raided the residence of Fatemeh (Houri) Ziaei Azad and took her away along with all her communication devices.
Houri Ziaei, 68, a political prisoner and supporter of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) during the 1980s, has spent more than 13 years in the prisons and torture chambers of the clerical regime: from June 20, 1981 to July 1986; from February 2009 to February 2011; one and a half years in 2013 and 2014; eight months in 2015; and one year in 2018.
Fatemeh Ziaei was last arrested on September 10, 2022, and released on January 20, 2025, after the coroner’s office confirmed she could not endure prison conditions due to the severity of her illness. Now, once again, her life is in serious danger.
Now, in August 2025, this marks the seventh time Fatemeh Ziaei has been arrested while suffering from advanced MS, a serious and incurable disease.
The Iranian Resistance calls for urgent action by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Special Rapporteur, and international human rights organizations to secure the immediate release of Fatemeh Ziaei.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
8 August 2025