Nahid Taghavi, a German-Iranian woman, was released from prison in Iran

Amnesty International said that Taqavi’s health conditions while he was held in the notorious Evin prison in the Iranian capital, Tehran, were “cruel and inhumane” and that medical care was “inadequate”.

He spent seven months in solitary confinement between his arrest and conviction, during which time he was forced to sleep on the floor, he said.

According to his daughter, Tagavi also suffered from a herniated disc, osteoporosis, diabetes and high blood pressure.

In July 2022, Tagawi was placed on emergency medical leave from prison for treatment of back and neck problems. But four months later, he was sent home again.

A fellow inmate of the house, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, warned in June 2023 that Taghavi’s life was “in danger”, saying he was in so much pain that he could “barely get out of bed”.

Tagavi was granted two more medical leaves in 2024.

The first began in January and lasted several weeks, but he was recalled to prison before his treatment was completed, and the second began at the end of September. During those times, he had to wear an electronic ankle tag and stay within 1 km (less than a mile) of his home in Tehran.

Amnesty said Tagavi flew to Germany on Sunday.

“Words cannot describe our joy,” Taghavi’s daughter said in a separate statement released Monday by the human rights group.

“At the same time, we mourn the four years that were stolen from us and the horror that he lived in Evin’s prison.”

Amnesty has called on Iran to release dozens of other dual nationals it says have been arbitrarily detained, as well as many other non-violent political prisoners.

Taghavi’s release sparked a diplomatic row between Berlin and Tehran, months after the death of another imprisoned German-Iranian dual citizen.

In late October, Baerbok ordered the closure of the three Iranian consulates in Germany of Jamshid Sharmahd, a US-based dissident who was sentenced to death in 2023 after a trial that Iranian state media rights groups said was unfair. was executed.

However, a spokesman for the Iranian judiciary claimed a few days later that Sharmahd “died before the sentence was carried out”. His family said that they did not believe what the Iranian officials said and demanded an international investigation.