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"Despite not completing medical treatment but with her head held high, my mother Nahid Taghavi was forced to go back to Evin Prison on Sunday 13th November.

Nahid Taghavi was temporarily released on July 19th, 2022, on an urgently needed medical furlough. The German citizen had previously been arrested on October 16th, 2020, spent 7 months in solitary confinement and was interrogated by the Revolutionary Guards secret service for more than 1,000 hours without legal assistance. In August 2021, she was sentenced to 10 years in an unfair sham trial.

Nahid Taghavi is one of countless political prisoners in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Since the death of the Kurdish woman Mahsa Jina Amini in police custody and the ongoing revolutionary movement in Iran, the whole world has witnessed the reprisals of this inhuman regime. My family and I stand in solidarity with the Iranian people.

Woman. Life. Freedom. #MahsaAmini #FreeNahid"