Sepideh Gholian is a student, social rights’ activists and journalist who was arrested on November 18th 2018 while she was supporting and reporting on the strike of the Haft Tappeh Sugar Cane Workers. On January 20th, the Iranian regime’s security officers re-arrested Sepideh Gholian. The security officers had gone to Sepideh’s parental home to arrest her. Since they had no warrant for arresting Sepideh, her brother, Mehdi Gholian, resisted her arrest. He asked them to get an arrest warrant. Their response was to beat him and then arrest both Mehdi and Sepideh. Mr Gholian was set free after a bail of 100 million toman ($23,000) was put up.