The case of 67-year-old Nahid Taghavi gives one a shiver. The German-Iranian women’s rights activist was arrested in October 2020 during a home visit to Iran. There have been no diplomatic attempts by the German government so far, only one German MP (Hirte, Christian Democratic Union) publicly campaigned for her release. Now she has been sentenced to over ten years in prison.
Despite several reports by Amnesty International, not a single diplomatic effort was attempted by the German government regarding the Islamist state. The 67-year-old woman from Cologne, who has been drawing attention to the lack of women’s rights in Iran while on German soil for years, has now herself become a victim of the brutal Sharia justice system.
She was sentenced to 10 years for “membership in an illegal group” and 8 months for “propaganda against the regime”, according to the Revolutionary Court. Taghavi’s lawyer had only been given access to the files four days before the trial began and had not been able to speak to his client. The Iranian judiciary has not commented on the arrest or the charges to date. According to reports, she is currently serving time in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran and recently became infected with the Corona virus.
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