Jamshid Sharmahd faces death sentence at end of six-day trial in Tehran
Photograph: Koosha Mahshid Falahi/MIZAN NEWS AGENCY/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Koosha Mahshid Falahi/MIZAN NEWS AGENCY/AFP/Getty ImagesA German-Iranian political scientist – the victim of a kidnapping by the Iranian secret service – has mounted a last ditch defence against multiple charges of terrorism in a Tehran court.
Sharmahhd’s daughter Gazelle said: “It should horrify every citizen who cares about human rights that a regime is breaking international law to kidnap foreign journalists, torture them and silence them through progressive and shameless lies in a medieval show trial of state assassination. They have sabotaged his right to a fair trial. They are breaking their own constitution.”
An online petition has gathered more than 75,000 signatures calling on the German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, to intervene. Tehran by contrast claims he played a role in a 2008 terrorist attack on a mosque in Shiraz that left 14 dead, and more than 100 wounded.
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