The household of Iran-born German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd doesn’t belief something stated by the Iranian authorities about his destiny, his daughter stated Tuesday, after the judiciary introduced he had died earlier than his dying sentence might be applied.
“We don’t belief something. We now have to get proof from an unbiased investigation that’s carried out exterior of Iran,” Gazelle Sharmahd advised AFP.
An Iranian judiciary spokesman stated earlier that Sharmahd had died in jail, after a earlier announcement final week stated he had been executed.
Sharmahd, who was additionally a everlasting resident in america, was executed on October 28 on the cost of “corruption on earth”, in keeping with the Mizan On-line information web site of the Iranian judiciary.
However judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir advised reporters in Tehran on Tuesday that “Sharmahd was sentenced to dying, his execution was imminent, however he died earlier than it might be carried out,” with out elaborating additional.
Sharmahd, 69, was tried and convicted after he was kidnapped within the United Arab Emirates in July 2020 by Iranian brokers and forcibly delivered to Iran, in keeping with the household and the UN Working Group on arbitrary detention in a 2022 report.
In his trial, Sharmahd was accused of involvement in a bombing towards a mosque in 2008 within the southern metropolis of Shiraz that killed 14 individuals in addition to espionage, claims rejected by the United Nations Working Group.
– ‘They’re complicit’ –
Gazelle Sharmahd stated it was now as much as the US and German governments to research and supply proof of what has occurred to her father.
“Instantly we requested, who has seen my father, who murdered my father? We’d like accountable governments who do their jobs and examine,” she stated.
“Any reason for dying — even when confirmed — of my father, who was in solitary confinement for 1,400 days, is homicide,” she added.
“If Germany and the US suppose this type of assertion (from the Iranian judiciary) will free them from their obligations then this isn’t the case.
“If this was not an execution then it’s even worse. That is homicide they usually (the German and US governments) are complicit.”
In america, Sharmahd helped develop an internet site for an opposition motion and hosted radio broadcasts important of Iranian authorities.
The case of Jamshid Sharmahd had lengthy been shrouded in uncertainty.
There have been by no means experiences of fellow detainees having seen him, although international passport holders are recognized to repeatedly cross paths in Tehran’s Evin jail.
Throughout his captivity, he made a handful of cellphone calls to his household however was by no means allowed to disclose the place he was being held amid rising concern over his well being.
In response to the execution reported by Iran final week, Germany ordered the closure of Iranian consulates on its territory. There was no fast response from Berlin to the newest growth.
“Given the shortage of transparency and the contradictory experiences from the judiciary, we demand an unbiased investigation by a global delegation, together with forensic specialists, into the destiny of Jamshid Sharmahd,” stated Mahmood-Amiry Moghaddam, director of the Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR).
