Back in Germany
German-Iranian Nahid Taghavi is free – after more than four years
The human rights activist Nahid Taghavi is free and back in Germany after several years in prison in Iran. Your daughter is overjoyed.
The German-Iranian human rights activist Nahid Taghavi has been released from Iranian custody after more than four years. “It’s over. Nahid is free!” wrote her daughter Mariam Claren in English on the online service X on Monday. Her mother is back in Germany. She also published a photo that shows both women together at an airport.
She landed safely in Germany on Sunday, according to a statement from the human rights organization Amnesty International.
Taghavi spent more than 1,500 days in prison in Iran. Claren said, according to Amnesty: “My mother is finally home. Words are not enough to describe our joy.” At the same time, she mourns the four years “that were stolen from us and the horror she had to experience in Ewin Prison.”
In her post on X, Claren thanked everyone who worked to free her mother.
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It’s over. Nahid is free!
After more than 4 years as a political prisoner in the Islamic Republic of Iran my mother #NahidTaghavi was freed and is back in Germany. Thanks to everyone who campaigned to #freenahid. I kindly ask the media to respect our privacy. pic.twitter.com/0XTRg5wjeg— Mariam Claren #FreeNahid (@mariam_claren) January 13, 2025
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Nahid Taghavi convicted of “leading an illegal group.”
The architect Taghavi was arrested in October 2020. Iran’s judiciary reportedly sentenced her to ten years in prison for, among other things, “leading an illegal group.” The German-Iranian activist had campaigned for human rights and especially women’s rights in Iran for years.
Human rights activists repeatedly accuse the Islamic Republic of holding foreigners hostage in order to free Iranian officials convicted abroad. Tehran denies this.
According to her family, Taghavi was granted parole in September and was released from the notorious Ewin Prison. As a condition, she had to wear an electronic ankle bracelet, as she had done during a previous prison leave, and was not allowed to move further than one kilometer from her apartment in the capital Tehran.
Amnesty International calls for the release of imprisoned dual nationals
“We are extremely pleased with Nahid Taghavi and her family about her release,” said Amnesty International Secretary General in Germany, Julia Duchrow. The German-Iranian was imprisoned in Iran “solely because of the peaceful exercise of her right to freedom of expression.” Her story is “exemplary of the many loud and quiet voices that oppose the repressive government in Iran.”
Amnesty called on the Iranian leadership to immediately and unconditionally release the remaining dual nationals detained in Iran and the “many other prisoners of conscience.”
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