The death sentence of Jamshid Sharmahd, an Iranian-German citizen, was secretly carried out
Hengaw; Monday, 28 October 2024
According to the official announcement by the Islamic Republic of Iran judiciary, the death sentence of Jamshid Sharmahd, a dual Iranian-German citizen and a permanent resident of the United States, has been carried out. Over the past four years, he was deprived of the most basic rights of a defendant.
Based on a report received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, early on Sunday, 27 October 2024, the death sentence of Jamshid Sharmahd, a 69-year-old prisoner, was secretly carried out after four years of imprisonment. The state media has not released any information about the exact location where his sentence was carried out.
This political prisoner, a dual Iranian-German citizen, was recognized internationally as one of the dual-national hostages of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Hengaw strongly condemns this state-sanctioned murder following his abduction, fabricated charges, and the lack of transparency by the Islamic Republic of Iran in Jamshid Sharmahd’s case. It calls on the international community, especially the German government, to hold the Islamic Republic of Iran accountable for this hostage-taking, which involved prolonged solitary confinement and severe fabrications of charges.
The news outlet “Mizan,” affiliated with the judiciary, while announcing this news, claimed that Jamshid Sharmahd had been “under the sophisticated protection and support of European and U.S. intelligence services.”
Previously, Jamshid Sharmahd had been sentenced to death by the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Abolghasem Salavati, known as the “Judge of Death,” for charges such as “spreading corruption on Earth, planning and directing terrorist activities, and bombings.”
Given the attribution of the charge of “connection with Israel” to Jamshid Sharmahd in the past and the fact that his execution occurred two days after Israel's retaliatory strike on the military facilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran, it is said that he was likely a victim of this escalation.
Earlier, Ghazaleh Sharmahd, Jamshid Sharmahd’s daughter, had stated that “the court-appointed attorney said that, given that your father’s case is 15 volumes, I cannot do anything in court other than sit next to your father and remain silent.”
She had also added, “We appointed our own lawyer, but the court judge kept him waiting in the hallway for weeks and did not allow him to enter the courtroom.”
Jamshid Sharmahd was abducted by security forces in mid-summer 2020 while traveling to the United Arab Emirates and was transferred to Iran.
