Germany condemns as “inhuman” a death sentence an Iranian court handed down today against an Iranian-German national who supporters say was abducted abroad and forcibly returned to Iran for a show trial.
The Tehran Revolutionary Court convicted Jamshid Sharmahd, 67, in connection with the deadly bombing of a mosque in 2008, the judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported.
Iranian authorities announced in August 2020 that Sharmahd, who is also a German national and a US resident, was arrested in what they described as a “complex operation” without specifying how, where or when he was seized.
His family say that he was abducted by the Iranian security services while in transit in Dubai and then brought under duress to the Islamic Republic.
The court’s ruling is “absolutely unacceptable,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says in a statement, promising a “strong reaction” to the decision. “Not only is the death penalty cruel, inhuman and degrading, but Jamshid Sharmahd has never had anything approaching a fair trial.”
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