CORRECTION - Mahnaz Khazaei, a former political prisoner, denied her death in a video message released on Monday Iran time, after media had reported her passing on Saturday.

Mahnaz Khazaei, a former political prisoner, denied her death in a video message released on Monday, the 12th of Farvardin.

IranWire had first reported on Saturday, that Khazaei had passed away due to a heart attack after being released from prison.

IranWire wrote that according to information received from Khazaei's relatives, intelligence agents took all of Khazaei's medical records and her family's mobile phones when they went to the hospital.

In her message to refute her death, Khazaei said that her mobile phone had been stolen in the past few days, and she did not know who had spread this news.