درخواست برای آزادی خانم ناهید تقوی، آلمانیِ ایرانی‌تبار

An appeal for the release of Mrs. Nahid Taghvai, German-Iranian Citizen

On October 16, 2020, Mrs Nahid Taghvai, a German-Iranian dual citizen, was arrested at her home in Tehran by the intelligence organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and transferred to a detention facility of the IRGC where she is held in solitary confinement.

Nahid Taghvai is 66 years old and a former member and activist in the World Confederation of Iranian Students during the 1970’s in Italy. In that period she played an effective role in the campaigns launched by the “Confederation” for the release of Iranian political prisoners and against the violations of human rights in that country.

During the revolution of the 1979, Nahid Taghvai, like many another members of the “Confederation,” returned to Iran where she continued her political activism for freedom and justice. In 1983 she was forced to leave her homeland and resided in Germany.

She has been held in solitary detention for over two months now where she is subjected to interrogations without any legal explanation provided by the Islamic Republic. During this period she was only allowed to contact her family several times by telephone.

We the undersigned, as former members and supporters of the World Confederation of Iranian Students-National Union (CISNU), appeal to international organizations and the German government in particular to protest the illegal arrest and detention of Nahid Taghvai and demand her immediate release.

Signatures

Henri Abrahamian, Hossein Afsahi, Faramarz Afshar, Kourosh Aftasi, Nazir Alizadeh, Minu Alvandi, Behrouz Arefi, Soheyla Arjomand, Behrouz Asadi, Hamid Azadi, Hossein Bahadori, Roya Bakhshi, Alireza Banifazl, Mehran Barati, Habib Beraman, Pari Berger, Arjang Borhan Azad, Ali Changizi, Mohamad Dashti, Mohammad Dawar, Parvin Dehghan, Abbas Dehghan, Bijan Eftekhari, Akbar Eghraghi, Ardawan Ershad, Asghar Eslami, Fereydoon Feli, Khosrow Ghadiri, Karim Ghassim, Hassan Ghazi, Davood Gholamzadeh, Taghi Hashemi, Ali hojat, Hamid Hosseini, Hossein Hosseinzadeh, Nahid Jafarpur, Fariborz Jafarpur, Fereydoon Jafari, Bibi Rabia Jafari, Jaber Kalibi, Maryam Kamali, Ata Karamzadeh, Kazem Kardavani, Dariush Karkuti, Hossein Kazemian, Jafar Khadir, Esfandyar Khalaf, Jahangir Laghai, Mansour Maghdari, Azam Mansouri, Majid Masrour, Zaman Masudi, Homayoun Mehmanesh, Minu Mehramooz, Parviz Mehrafshan, Mehran Mirfakhrai, Said Mirhadi, Amir Moaiyeri, Siamak Moayedzadeh, Bahman Mobasheri, Reza Mohajer, Karim Moniri, Faezeh Monzavi, Bagher Mortazavi, Mohsen Mousavi Azizi, Ali Nadimi,Mohsen Nejad, Bahman Nirumand, Dara Nirui, Faramarz Pakzad, Taghi Purajam, Tajedin Purmansouri, Leila Rafi Nouri, Fereydoun Rahimi, Raymond Rakhshani, Ali Rasouli, Mohsen Rezvani, Sourour Sahebi, Hormoz Samimi, Jalal Saraji, Habib Schalchian, Rasul Scholz, Jafar Sedigh, Ahmad Shafei, Reza Shah Hosseini, Arash Shah Teimouri, Zari Shams, Zohreh Shisheh, Parviz Shokat, Mohamma Soleimani, Manouchehr Taghavi Bayat, Reza Taheri, Ali Akbar Tavoosi, Nosrat Teimourzadeh, Shidan Vasigh, Farhad Yasaii, Farshid Yasaii, Majid Zarbakhsh, Mehdi Zolfaghari.

04.01.2021