German-Iranian girl Nahid Taghavi has been launched from jail in Iran, her daughter says.
“It’s over. Nahid is free! After greater than 4 years as a political prisoner within the Islamic Republic of Iran, my mom… has been freed and returned to Germany,” Mariam Claren wrote on X.
Taghavi, 70, was arrested in Tehran in October 2020 and sentenced to 10 years in jail the next August after being discovered responsible of forming a bunch “with the goal of disturbing nationwide safety” and “spreading propaganda in opposition to the system”.
Amnesty International stated the costs, which it denied, have been apparently linked to a girls’s rights social media account and that the trial was grossly unfair.
Responding to {a photograph} of Taghavi and his daughter hugging at an airport on Sunday, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock wrote: “It is a superb second of pleasure that Nahid Taghavi can lastly hug his household once more.”
There was no speedy remark from the Iranian judiciary.
Amnesty International stated Taghavi’s well being deteriorated considerably whereas she was held within the infamous Evin jail within the Iranian capital Tehran, the place situations have been “merciless and inhumane” and medical care was “insufficient”.
She spent seven months in solitary confinement between her arrest and sentencing, throughout which she was pressured to sleep on the ground.
According to his daughter, Taghavi additionally suffered from herniated disc, osteoporosis, diabetes and hypertension.
In July 2022, Taghavi was granted emergency medical go away from jail for remedy for again and neck issues. However, she was despatched again to Evin 4 months later.
Another Evin inmate, Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, warned in June 2023 that Taghavi’s life was “in peril”, saying he was in a lot ache that he “can barely get away from bed”.
Taghavi was granted medical go away two extra occasions throughout 2024.
The first started in January and lasted a number of weeks however she was recalled to jail earlier than finishing medical remedy, the second started on the finish of September. During these occasions he needed to put on an digital ankle tag and keep inside 1 km (lower than a mile) of his residence in Tehran.
Amnesty stated Taghavi had returned to Germany on Sunday.
“Words can’t describe our pleasure,” Taghavi’s daughter stated in a separate assertion launched Monday by the rights group.
“At the identical time, we mourn the 4 years that have been stolen from us and the horror he needed to endure in Evin Prison.”
Amnesty referred to as on Iran to launch dozens extra twin nationals and plenty of extra non-violent political prisoners, who it stated have been being arbitrarily detained.
Taghavi’s launch comes months after the loss of life of one other detainee with twin German-Iranian nationality sparked a diplomatic dispute between Berlin and Tehran.
In late October, Baerbock ordered the closure of all three Iranian consulates in Germany after Iranian state media reported that Jamshid Sharmahd – a US-based dissident sentenced to loss of life in 2023 following a trial thought of unfair by human rights teams – had been executed.
However, days later, the Iranian judiciary’s spokesperson stated that Sharmahd had “died earlier than the sentence was carried out”. Her household stated she didn’t belief what Iranian authorities stated and referred to as for a global investigation.
