Now aged 70, Nahid Taghavi was released “after more than 1,500 days of arbitrary detention” and “landed safely in Germany” on Sunday, Amnesty International said in a press release on Monday.
Sentenced to more than ten years in prison in August 2021 for membership in an illegal group and for propaganda against the regime, Nahid Taghavi, women’s rights activist, was released after seeing her health “deteriorate considerably” in prison. ‘Evin in Tehran, known for its extremely difficult detention conditions, underlined the NGO.
“After more than four years as a political prisoner in the Islamic Republic of Iran, my mother Nahid Taghavi has been released and is back in Germany,” confirmed her daughter Mariam Claren, who published a photo of her and her smiling mother in an airport.
At the end of February 2024, Mariam Claren announced the return to prison of Ms. Taghavi, after a period of two months on supervised release for medical reasons.
Between her arrest and her trial, Nahid Taghavi “spent more than seven months in solitary confinement” during which “she had to sleep on the floor, without a bed or pillow, was monitored 24 hours a day and was not allowed to go out outside. fresh air for only 30 minutes a day with a blindfold on,” says Amnesty International.
Human rights defenders and European countries accuse Tehran of detaining dozens of foreigners under false pretexts in a hostage-taking strategy to extract concessions from the West.
Another German-Iranian national, Jamshid Sharmahd, who was notably known for his hostile statements against the Iranian regime on satellite channels in Persian, died at the end of October in a prison in Iran. Iran, which initially announced his execution, then claimed that his death had occurred earlier, implying natural causes.
This announcement made on October 28 caused a diplomatic crisis with Berlin, which recalled its ambassador to Iran and closed three Iranian consulates in Germany.
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