The imprisoned German-Iranian Nahid Taghavi has been granted a furlough by Iranian authorities and was released from Iran’s notorious Ewin prison on Saturday, according to her family.
Taghavi’s daughter, Mariam Claren, said that her mother is being required to wear an ankle monitor and is not allowed to go more than a kilometre from her home in Tehran during the temporary reprieve.
Claren said her mother, who has been imprisoned since October 2020, was last granted a furlough in January before being taken back to prison in February. At that time, she was released for health reasons but similar conditions were also imposed.
“We accept nothing less than her unconditional release and return to Germany,” Claren wrote in a post on X. “Thanks to everyone who is working with us on this.”
Taghavi, an architect, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by an Iranian court for allegedly “leading an illegal group,” among other charges.
Human rights activists accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran of holding foreigners as hostages in hopes of freeing Iranian officials convicted abroad. Tehran has denied those allegations.
