Leila Hosseinzadeh

Leila Hosseinzadeh (; born 1991) is an Iranian student activist and a political prisoner.

2018 arrest Hosseinzadeh, at the time a student of the Faculty of Social Sciences and secretary of the Student Union Council of the University of Tehran, was arrested outside her house on 1 January 2018 for taking part in the December 2017 protests at the university. She was released on bail after 16 days. On March 7, 2018, she was sentenced by Branch 26 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Mashallah Ahmadzadeh to five years in prison on the charge of “propaganda against the regime", together with one year in prison and a two-year ban on leaving the country on the charge of “propaganda against the regime”.

2019 trial and imprisonment On June 24, 2019, the 36th Branch of the Revision Court of Tehran Province commuted the sentence to 3 years and six months in prison and a two-year travel ban. Security forces arrested Leila Hosseinzadeh at her home on July 28, 2019, and detained her in an IRGC Intelligence facility for ten days. Subsequently, they took her to the women's ward of Evin Prison to serve her 2.5-year sentence. ) and the implementation of the new year's compassionate release she was released again. On June 21, 2020, a new case was brought up and she was released on bail after attending the prosecutor's office. She was charged with "disrupting prison order by chanting slogans." On August 20, 2022, she was arrested and transferred to the Intelligence Department's Security Ward 209 located in Evin Prison. Thereafter, she was transferred for interrogation to Shiraz Intelligence Detention Center No. 100. On September 6, 2022, after being arrested for a while, she was transferred to Adelabad Prison in Shiraz. According to her brother, Abolfazl Hosseinzadeh, Leila's disease causes eye issues and Hosseinzadeh has been suffering from blurred vision for about two weeks. On November 1, the prison infirmary's physician asked for dispatching her for treatment, which was not accepted.