Maryam Arvin

Maryam Arvin was a lawyer, a university professor and a member of the Kerman Province Bar Association. She was arrested at the same time as the nationwide uprising in response to the murder of Mahsa Amini, and died suspiciously after being released from prison.

The national uprising of 2022 centered around the “woman, life, freedom” slogan was triggered in response to the murder of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini. The protests began sporadically in several cities and online space but in just a few days it spread to dozens of cities across Iran and the goal of the protesters changed to overthrowing the regime. <symbol-timeline></symbol-timeline>

• <coverage-outsourcing id='47080'> <reference source='https://t.me/kashowra/14387'> Maryam Arvin was arrested in Sirjan. According to the Coordinating Council of Educators' Union Organizations, Tayyebeh Nazari, Maryam Arvin's mother, was also arrested for defending her child. This report says that their arrest was accompanied by assault, and the officers took Ms. Arvin's mask and dragged her to the ground. Her arrest took place at the same time as the nationwide uprising in Iran in response to the murder of Mahsa Amini. In the account that Ms. Nazari published on Instagram months after her daughter was killed, it is written that they were arrested without a legal warrant. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='47082'> <reference source='https://t.me/kashowra/14387?single'> The Coordinating Council of Trade Union Organizations of Educators wrote that Maryam Arvin and Tayyebeh Nazari have been imprisoned in Sirjan's Kohanshahr prison for more than 10 days. In this report, the reason for Maryam Arvin's arrest is providing legal advice and accompanying the family of the arrested. In a report that BBC Farsi published a few months after she was killed, it is stated that Ms. Arvin had accepted the representation of the imprisoned protestors during her detention and wrote a defense bill for them in prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='47063'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3RQwQTv'> She was released from prison on bail. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='47074'> <reference source='https://x.com/bbcpersian/status/1678843928663998467?s=20'> Vokalapress reported the death of Maryam Arvin, citing the public relations of the Kerman Bar Association. The report did not mention the cause of her death. About a year later, a source told BBC Farsi that Maryam was getting ready to go to her friends' wedding. She went into a coma and on February 7, her liver and lungs failed and she died. BBC Farsi also published her death certificate in its news report. In this certificate, the cause of death is recorded as "unknown". According to the BBC, Maryam Arvin's family was under pressure from the security forces for her quick burial. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='47076'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3DSi6Oj'> In an interview with ISNA, Mohsen Nikvarz, the prosecutor of Sirjan, announced the cause of Maryam Arvin's death as "suicide". He said: > At the beginning of 2021, the deceased also had a history of an unsuccessful suicide case due to the use of medicine, and her hospitalization and treatment records are available." He went on to say that Ms. Arvin was present on the first day of the "disturbances in Sirjan. He stated: > This person was arrested on the 24th of October of this year, and after investigation and gathering of documents, she was released in the custody of a guardian. Prosecutor of Sirjan further said: > The trial court challenged her case after the issuance of a ruling and it has been under review in the appeals court so far. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='51993'> <reference source='https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs0K6hvNS3H/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA=='> Tayyebeh Nazari, Maryam Arvin's mother, in a note published on her personal Instagram account, wrote that they destroyed her daughter, who was arrested for defending her client, by giving her serums "on the pretext of sedation, painkillers, and nourishment,. Mrs. Nazari wrote that the prison doctor confirmed in a letter the injuries that Maryam Arvin suffered. Mrs. Nazari also described the violence in detention and announced that a female officer named Zahra Alizadeh known as "Mobina" along with the intelligence officer of the police force named "Hamid Zeidabadi" "handcuffed" Ms. Arvin in the corridor of the courthouse and "knocked her to the ground and were dragging her on the ground." Mrs. Nazari added that her daughter was summoned by the police intelligence officers by order of the prosecutor Nikvarz, and the assistant prosecutor of the fifth branch, Reza Mohammadi: > According to the commitment she gave to the interrogator and deputy intelligence officer, she went to the prosecutor's office at eight o'clock in the morning on Saturday, October 26, 2022. Tayyebeh Nazari also emphasized that a week after her daughter was killed, the 103rd Criminal Branch issued a sentence of "15 months in prison, one million Tomans fine, and 40 lashes in absentia, which was later suspended. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='53359'> <reference source='https://www.instagram.com/p/CtexHgLNWhy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA=='> The page attributed to Maryam Arvin on Instagram published a picture of her work coat and wrote: "This is not an ordinary coat, the coat that the intelligence agents took to prove the video that the informants took of Maryam during the protests, when they were looking for the coat, a female agent named Zahra Alizadeh who was searching the house, after searching two coat closets, when she found the coat, she shouted: > I found it. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='53358'> <reference source='https://x.com/bbcpersian/status/1678843928663998467?s=20'> BBC Farsi, quoting a source, published details of how Maryam Arvin died. In an interview with the BBC, this source announced: > The judge had seen Maryam's video reports during the protests. On October 24, Mariam was contacted by the intelligence agency to go to the prosecutor's office on October 26, 2022 to answer some questions. Her parents and wife also went with her. Maryam was beaten and taken away in handcuffs. Maryam's mother was arrested there and taken to the old Sirjan prison. According to this source: > Maryam's mother was transferred to Sirjan prison after a day and found Maryam half unconscious on the bed. She had lost seven kilos of weight in three weeks. Maryam said that they gave juice regularly in prison. A juice that probably had medicine in it." After her release, she fell into a coma and died a day later. BBC Farsi published her death certificate in its news report. In this certificate, the cause of death is recorded as "unknown . BBC also published a manuscript written by Maryam after her release, in which she wrote: > Today, I am no longer the person I was three months ago, and my mission has multiplied a thousandfold. Today I have to think about being and surviving and growing. I have to read, know, and write more and turn the small seedling of my existence into a strong tree so that the storm of events will not easily bend me. According to the BBC report, Tayyebeh Nazari's judicial case is still open. Based on this report, she was initially sentenced to imprisonment and flogging and fine, and then it was suspended. Also, based on this report, Maryam's aunt was also arrested after she was killed. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='53360'> <reference source='https://www.instagram.com/reel/CztrCzGtxOX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA=='> Maryam Arvin's family attended her grave site with her engagement dress. The Instagram page attributed to Maryam Arvin posted a video of her mother at her child's grave and wrote: > Tonight was the first anniversary of Maryam's engagement. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='60283'> <reference source='https://x.com/SinaYousefilaw/status/1796636798648487976'> Attorney Sina Yousefi wrote on X: > Maryam's mother had announced that they injected her with a serum in the prison under the pretext of sedation and painkillers, and the cause of death was drug poisoning, and the prison doctor confirmed in a letter the injuries that Maryam Arvin had suffered. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>