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Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock wrote on the social media
platform X that it's “a great moment of joy that Nahid Taghavi
can finally embrace her family again.”
Baerbock retweeted a post by Taghavi's daughter, Mariam Claren,
with a photo of herself hugging her mother, which said: “It’s
over. Nahid is free! After more than 4 years as a political
prisoner in the Islamic Republic of Iran my mother Nahid Taghavi
was freed and is back in Germany.”
Taghavi was sentenced to 10 years and eight months in prison in
Iran in 2021.
Rights group Amnesty International, which lobbied for Taghavi's
release for years, said in a statement Monday that “after more
than 1,500 days in arbitrary detention, Iranian-German women’s
rights activist Nahid Taghavi has been released.”
“Since her arrest, Amnesty International had been campaigning
for her unconditional release and an end to her persecution,”
the group said, adding that Taghavi landed in Germany on Sunday.
Taghavi was arrested in October 2020 during a visit to Tehran
and later sentenced to prison for alleged involvement in an
“illegal group” and for “propaganda against the state" and was
held incommunicado for months and tortured, Amnesty
International said.
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