Iran, human rights | They wanted to end their pain

On Thursday of this week the news came that British and Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert attempted suicide for the third time in the famous Evin prison in the Iranian capital of Tehran.

The academic traveled to Iran in 2018 to attend a conference, and was arrested for leaving the country.

Apparently a spy

Iran charged her and sentenced her to 10 years in prison for spying on the country.

In letters she wrote in prison, she rejected the espionage charges against herself, alleging that the regime has attempted to recruit her as a spy for Iran.

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It is reasonable to suppose that it was precisely her rejection of the regime’s offer that she was arrested and convicted.

It was the man of human rights defender Nasrin Sotude who wrote about his suicide attempt on social media. His wife has even been sentenced to 38 years in prison for defending the right to leave without a hijab.

According to her, the situation of Moore-Gilbert is terrible and unbearable, and that she remains isolated. There have also been charges of mental torture.

Pieces in a political game.

Unfortunately, the desperate Iranian authorities are using foreign citizens to play their political game. Previously, English-Iranian Nazanin Zagheri Radcliff was also accused of espionage and arrested after a vacation trip to Iran in 2016.

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She has since been imprisoned, despite countless attempts by the UK authorities and her husband to release her. She has consistently affirmed her innocence.

In March, he was granted a temporary permit in connection with the spread of the crown in Iranian prisons.

Banned in Germany

Last week, the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was banned in Germany. This led to anger and threats from the Iranian authorities.

German police searched the facilities of Hezbollah groups based on information from the Israeli authorities about possible terrorist plans. The German Foreign Minister asked Natalie Amiry, the German-Iranian ARD television correspondent, to leave Iran as tension between the two countries escalated.

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The Vatan e-Emroz newspaper, a conservative newspaper in Iran, this week accused German Ambassador Michael Klor Berchtold of Iran of being an Israeli spy (Zionists, as the authorities in Iran call them).

Western tourists; watch out!

Iran is an immensely beautiful and exciting country, and the tourism industry is suffering greatly, but unfortunately, caution is needed to encourage Western tourists to travel to the country without reservation.

The chance of being on the shooting line and being part of a political game is great.

Iranian authorities often use Western citizens as a means of extorting or exchanging prisoners, with regime-based Iranians who have been imprisoned in the West.

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