For more than 200 days, German-Iranian citizen Nahid Taghavi has been imprisoned in Iran – in solitary confinement. The 66-year-old is one of the country’s more than two dozen foreigners and dual nationals in prison. Iran arrests these people to exert political pressure: there is even open talk of using them for a prisoner exchange. In this way, these people become bargaining chips. In “heute journal”, a news broadcast of Germany’s public TV channel ZDF, I have made it clear: Iran’s actions are an outrage by any international standards, they are highly cynical. We must put pressure on Iran to put an end to these methods!

Here you may find the TV report