German-Iranian woman Nahid Taghavi released from prison in Iran

Taghavi, 70, spent more than four years in jail after a trial that rights groups said was grossly unfair.

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"It's over. Nahid is free! After more than four years as a political prisoner in the Islamic Republic of Iran my mother... was freed and is back in Germany," Mariam Claren wrote on X.

Taghavi, 70, was arrested in Tehran in October 2020 and sentenced to 10 years in prison the following August after being convicted of forming a group "with the purpose of disrupting national security" and "spreading propaganda against the system".

Amnesty International said the charges, which she denied, were apparently related to a social media account about women's rights and that the trial was grossly unfair.

Responding to a photograph of Taghavi and her daughter embracing at an airport on Sunday, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock wrote: "A great moment of joy that Nahid Taghavi can finally embrace her family again."

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