Amnesty International Calls for Immediate Release of Nahid Taghavi and Mehran Raouf
Amnesty International released a statement describing the legal proceedings of Nahid Taghavi and Mehran Raouf’s cases in Iran as “severely unjust” and called for their immediate and unconditional release.
In a statement obtained by Radio Farda, Amnesty International noted that Nahid Taghavi suffers from chronic back pain, and authorities are refusing to allow her to undergo spinal surgery which medical specialists say she urgently needs.
Amnesty International emphasized that these two individuals are “both prisoners of conscience who have been arbitrarily held in Evin Prison in Tehran since October 16, 2020, solely for exercising their peaceful human rights activities, and must be immediately and unconditionally released.”
Nahid Taghavi, who previously lived in Cologne, Germany, was arrested without specific charges at her private residence in Tehran on October 16 and transferred to Evin Prison.
The 66-year-old Iranian-German citizen has been sentenced to ten years in prison on charges of “participating in managing an illegal group” and eight months on charges of “propaganda activities against the system.”
According to Mustafa Nili, Nahid Taghavi’s lawyer, the same sentence has been issued for Mehran Raouf, a dual Iranian-British labor activist.
Britain strongly criticized the issuance of a lengthy prison sentence for Mehran Raouf on August 7.
Source: Radio Farda
