German-Iranian woman Nahid Taghavi has been released from prison in Iran, her daughter says.
“It’s over. Nahid is free! After more than four years as a political prisoner in the Islamic Republic of Iran my mother… was freed and is back in Germany,” Mariam Claren wrote on X.
Taghavi, 70, was arrested in Tehran in October 2020 and sentenced to 10 years in prison the following August after being convicted of forming a group “with the purpose of disrupting national security” and “spreading propaganda against the system”.
Amnesty International said the charges, which she denied, were apparently related to a social media account about women’s rights and that the trial was grossly unfair.