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Iranwire – Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Iranian-German national Jamshid Sharmahd on charges of “corruption on Earth.”
The Iranian judiciary’s website Mizan Online made the announcement on April 26.
Sharmahd, who also has US residency, was abducted by Iranian officials in the United Arab Emirates in July 2020 and forcibly transferred to Iran.
Iranian authorities accuse him of heading a pro-monarchist group they blame for a deadly 2008 bombing and planning other attacks in the country, charges Sharmahd denies.
The judiciary announced his death sentence in February following what Amnesty International called a “grossly unfair” trial.
Germany’s government ordered two employees of the Iranian embassy in Berlin to leave the country in protest, which was followed by a similar move by Iran’s government.
Western governments have repeatedly accused the Islamic Republic of taking dual and foreign nationals hostage for the sole purpose of using them in prisoner swaps or as a bargaining chip in international negotiations.
During and after Sharmahd’s trial, state media broadcast his forced “confessions” in a propaganda video accusing him of “terrorism.”
According to Amnesty International, the prisoner has been denied “his rights to an independent lawyer of his own choosing, to adequate defense, to be protected from torture and other ill-treatment, to the presumption of innocence and to be tried by an competent and impartial tribunal.”
