Farida Muradhani, the niece of Iran's supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was arrested after calling on foreign governments to sever ties with the Iranian government.
Moradhani was arrested last Wednesday when she arrived at the prosecutor's office due to a court order, according to a tweet by her brother Mahmoud Moradhani.
In a recorded statement that her brother posted online before her arrest, Moradhani is seen calling on people around the world to put pressure on their governments to sever ties with the Iranian regime amid the protests in the country, which have been going on for about three months.
Frida Moradhani (photo: screenshot, official website)
Protest against Ali Khamenei (photo: official website, from the Twitter account of "Ali's Justice")
"Free people, be with us and tell your governments to stop supporting this murderous, child-killing regime. This regime is not loyal to any religious principle and does not recognize laws except force and the preservation of power in any possible way.
"This is a critical moment in history, all of humanity is looking at the Iranian people, in the hands Rikut, with courage, fights the forces of evil," she said. "At this point, the Iranian people bear the burden of the heavy responsibility alone and pay with their lives."
Moradhani added that the Iranians are at war with governments that support the Iranian regime, and called on democratic countries to return the representatives from Iran and expel the Iranian representatives."
Frida and Mahmoud are the children of Ali Tehrani, a cleric and opponent of the regime who married Khamenei's sister, Badri Hosseini Khamenei.
Tehrani died last month.
Frida was previously arrested by the regime.
On January 13, she was arrested at her home.
Following her arrest, her home was searched and some of her belongings were confiscated, according to human rights organizations.
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