Khamenei's imprisoned niece goes on hunger strike in prison

ARK News… Demonstrations continue in Iran after the movement erupted last September, following the killing of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, at the hands of the "morality police."

It was reported from Iran, on Sunday that the detained niece of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had entered a hunger strike.

Her brother, Mahmoud Murad Khani, wrote in a tweet on Twitter that his sister "is on hunger strike to protest the conditions of the place of detention and not transferring her to Evin Prison."

Muhammad Hussein Aqqasi, Farida Murad Khani's lawyer, Friday, December 9, announced in a tweet that his client "was tried before a special court for clerics, and she was sentenced to 15 years in prison."

Civil activist Farida Murad Khani, daughter of Badriya Husseini Khamenei, sister of the guide, and her father, Ali Murad Khani, a former leader in the Iranian regime, was arrested about a month ago, while demonstrations continue in Iran after the movement erupted since last September, following the killing of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, at the hands of the "morality police."

Farida Murad Khani had called on foreign governments to sever all ties with Tehran because of the violent crackdown by the authorities, to curb mass protests sparked by the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, while she was in police custody.

A video of Farida, an engineer whose father was a prominent opposition figure and who married Khamenei's sister, went viral online.

She said in the video: "O free peoples, support us and inform your governments to stop supporting this bloody regime that kills children... This regime is not loyal to any of its religious principles, and knows no rules other than strength and clinging to power."

As Farida said in the video clip, "Now is the time for all free and democratic countries to recall their representatives from Iran as a symbolic gesture and to expel the representatives of this brutal regime from their lands."

Mahmoud Murad Khani, Farida's brother, who lives in France, posted the video on YouTube. Mahmoud defines himself on his Twitter account as "opposing the Islamic Republic." The video was shared by prominent Iranian human rights activists.

On November 23, Mahmoud stated that his sister was arrested while complying with a court order to appear before the prosecutor's office in Tehran. The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence arrested Farida this year and later released her on bail. Farida previously faced a 15-year prison sentence on unspecified charges.

It is noteworthy that Farida Murad Khani is the daughter of Ali Murad Khani, known as "Sheikh Ali Tehrani", who is one of the clerics opposed to the former Pahlavi regime. He supported Khomeini's revolution in 1979 and represented Khorasan Province in the Assembly of Constitutional Experts before he changed his position and began criticizing its officials in the mid-1980s.

Murad Khani and his family fled to Iraq at the height of the war between the two countries, after spending months in prison in Mashhad. However, he returned to Iran in 1995 and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, before being released in 2005. Murad Khani died this year, maintaining his criticism of the religious regime in Iran.

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