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"Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court sentenced Ms. #Nahid_Taghavi
and Mr. #Mehran_Raouf to 10 years in prison for participating in
the management of an illegal group and to eight months in prison
for propaganda activities against the regime," lawyer Mostafa
Nili said in a Twitter post.
Iran's judiciary had yet to report the sentences. But Taghavi's
daughter Mariam Claren tweeted a confirmation of her sentence.
Taghavi, 66, a human rights activist who lives in Germany but
retained an apartment in Tehran, was arrested there in October
2020 while on a visit to her homeland and her trial began on
April 28, according to Claren and human rights groups.
"My mother was allowed to see her brothers. They hugged her. Her
first hug after almost 7 months," Claren tweeted on April 28.
Raouf, a labour rights activist, was arrested in Iran on Oct. 16
last year by the elite Revolutionary Guards, according to
Amnesty International.
Amnesty said in February that Raouf was being held in "prolonged
solitary confinement, in violation of the absolute prohibition
of torture and other ill-treatment".
The Revolutionary Guards have arrested dozens of dual nationals
and foreigners in recent years, mostly on espionage and
security-related charges.
Rights activists have accused the Islamic Republic of trying to
win concessions from other countries through such arrests.
Tehran, which does not recognise dual nationality, denies
holding holds people for political reasons.
Iran and six world powers including Germany and Britain are in
talks to revive their 2015 nuclear deal, which unravelled in
2018 when then-President Donald Trump withdrew the United States
and imposed sanctions that have crippled the Iranian economy.
The talks have been stalled since June 20 with both sides saying
major gaps remain to be resolved.
(Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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