The Federal government is trying to secure the release of 63-year-old British citizen Morad Tahbaz. He guards one of the eight imprisoned in Iran environment. Against four of them, including Tahbaz, should have charged the Iranian judiciary on charges of a particularly serious Crime (“a corrupter on earth”). Official justifications for it.
Tahbaz works in a variety of ways for the preservation of the wildlife population in Iran, among other things, with a Foundation. The 63-Year-old is being held by the revolutionary guards. He was very sick.
The Federal government has discussed the case repeatedly with the Iranian government and wants to use a declared. There has been talks and diplomatic activities, and in part in the Form of a Demarche, on the high level in Brussels, Geneva, New York and on location in Tehran,.
Great concern in the foreign office
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followed the case very closely, and according to daily mirror information with great concern. According to local knowledge of the foreign office were completed last October, the investigation against eight environmental activists, since the beginning of February 2019, the court procedures are in progress.
The human rights situation in Iran is, in the judgment of aid organisations, but also of the German government and its European partners is extremely difficult. The case of the since the beginning of 2018, the imprisoned environmentalist is exemplary in this regard. In Iran, there are an increasing number of Detainees, but the Iranian a Western nationality. The Federal government, according to its own information, in close consultation with each country for these cases. This is not done at present, both in the multilateral and European context, as well as active in direct talks with Iran. Decisive for the manner in which to proceed alone, the interest of the person Concerned, that was it. Just responded to individual cases took place in the majority of cases it is more discreet than in public, and always with some success.
a Common European Position
Background: the Existing European sanctions against Iranian individuals and organizations for serious human rights violations are independent of the Vienna nuclear agreement (JCPoA) always remained in force. The EU has only recently Council conclusions adopted on Iran, which make the common European Position.
Germany was at the 37. The UN human rights Council in Geneva in March of 2018, one of the signatories of a joint Declaration on human rights in Iran, including the arrest of environmentalists came to the language, and Co-Sponsor the General Assembly Resolution on human rights in Iran, on 17. December 2018 has been adopted.
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