Farangis Mazloum, the mother of political prisoner Sohail Arabi was arrested by security forces and taken to an undisclosed location.

Eight security forces arrested Farangis Mazloum at her home on Monday.

Arresting the family members of political and ideological prisoners is a common practice by the Islamic Republic regime’s security and intelligence apparatus.

A source close to Ms. Mazloum: “Seven male and one female agent arrived at Ms. Mazloum’s home at around 2 pm on Monday.”

According to this source, “at first, they said they will bring her back in a few hours, but when they realized that she uses certain drugs due to her heart surgery and muscle problems, they asked her to bring those drugs with her.”

A few weeks ago Mazloum had released a video in which she announced that her son, Sohail Arabi, has been transferred from prison to an IRGC base several times and severely tortured for writing a letter about the conditions of his prison and for teaching English and French in prison. She said they had even broken her son’s nose.

“Sohail’s interrogator while mocking him for teaching English and French told him that you invite people to heresy with these actions,” she said in the video.

Mazloum continued: “Is teaching prisoners considered a crime? Does it deserve breaking his nose and kicking him in the testicles to a point that one of his testicles is crushed and he needs urgent surgery and hospitalization?”

She warned that the judicial and prison officials want to kill her son, and that is why they do not allow him to be hospitalized.

Sohail Arabi was sentenced to death in 2013 for some of his posts on Facebook. He was accused of insulting the prophet and “spreading corruption on earth.