A 66-year-old German-Iranian lady detained in Iran is affected by critical well being situations, fellow prisoners at Tehran’s Evin Prison mentioned on Sunday.
“Political prisoner Nahid Taghavi’s life is in peril,” award-winning campaigner and human rights activist Narges Mohammadi wrote on Instagram.
Taghavi, a ladies’s rights activist, was arrested in 2020 and convicted a 12 months later of violating nationwide safety and is serving an almost 11-year sentence in Iran. Her household vehemently rejects her accusations.
Taghavi receives a ‘sturdy painkiller injection’
Mohammadi wrote that Taghabi was significantly in poor health and “can barely get off the bed.”
She added that Taghavi “went to the clinic, acquired an injection of sturdy painkillers and returned to mattress.”
“The ache is so dangerous that it reveals on my face,” she added.
A partial English translation of the publish was tweeted by Taghavi’s daughter Mariam Claren.
7 months of isolation
Mohammadi mentioned Taghabi has now been in isolation for 220 days and his well being has deteriorated in latest days.
Mr Mohammadi added that confinement had worsened his pre-existing disc illness, including that Mr Taghavi now additionally suffers from cervical disc issues, diabetes and hypertension.
Taghavi was granted brief medical go away in 2022, however his household mentioned he was returned to jail and held in solitary confinement earlier than he may get well.
She was convicted and stays in custody, together with British-Iranian Mehran Raof.
Mohammadi highlights the plight of prisoners
Mohammadi is deputy director of Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi’s Center for Human Rights.
Her Instagram account is run by her household in France primarily based on telephone calls to family.
This causes Mohammadi to proceed demanding Evin’s prisoner rights regardless of being imprisoned.
She beforehand revealed how feminine prisoners arrested following anti-government protests final 12 months have been sexually and bodily abused.
The protests started after the dying in custody of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish Zina Marsa Amini, who was arrested by morality police in September for violating a strict costume code.
Despite releases, Iran holds a number of Westerners
More than a dozen Western passport holders stay detained in Iran, which human rights teams say is a part of a deliberate hostage coverage by Tehran to extract concessions from the West.
Several Western nationals have been launched in latest days, thanks partly to Omani mediation.
They embrace a Danish nationwide, two Austrian-Iranians, and a Belgian help employee who was launched by Iran in trade for Belgium releasing an Iranian diplomat convicted of a terrorist plot. There is.
Last month, Tehran additionally launched a French nationwide and a French-Irish citizen who had been on starvation strike and had well being issues raised.
Like Taghavi, one other Iranian-German, Jamshid Sharmahad, doesn’t know when he will probably be executed.
Sharmahad was detained by Iran in August 2020 whereas touring within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and was charged with terrorism in reference to the 2008 bombing.
He was sentenced to dying in February, a sentence later upheld by the Supreme Court.
His household, human rights activists and lots of German politicians say the allegations in opposition to him are unfounded.
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