Imprisoned German-Iranian Nahid Taghavi has been granted leave by Iranian authorities and was released from Iran’s infamous Ewin prison on Saturday, according to her family.
Taghavi’s daughter, Mariam Claren, said her mother is required to wear an ankle monitor and is not allowed to go further than a kilometer from her home in Tehran during the temporary reprieve.
Claren said her mother, who has been in jail since October 2020, was last furloughed in January before being taken back to jail in February. At the time, she was released on health grounds, but similar conditions were also imposed.
“We will accept nothing less than her unconditional release and return to Germany,” Claren wrote in a message on X. “Thank you to everyone who is working with us on this.”
Taghavi, an architect, was sentenced by an Iranian court to 10 years in prison for, among other things, ‘leading an illegal group’.
Human rights activists accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran of holding foreigners as hostages in the hope of freeing Iranian officials convicted abroad. Tehran has denied these allegations.