Politicians particularly in Germany taking responsibility for lobbying for the safety of individual prisoners
have begun sponsoring jailed Iranian protesters in the hope that by highlighting individual cases of injustice, the authorities will be forced to step back from handing down lengthy jail sentences or carrying out executions.and threats to kill others suggest Tehran is set on the use of repression and fear to quell the protests.
Katja Leikert, a Christian Democrat member of the German parliament, agreed to sponsor Sonya Sharifi, 16, who could face the death penalty. In a sign that a social media campaign for her case to be dropped was having an impact, the prosecutor issued a statement saying her case was still at a preliminary stage and it was not certain she would face execution.
Mostafa Nili, a lawyer who has represented many political prisoners in the past, is being sponsored by the CDU foreign affairs specialist Norbert Röttgen. Nili was arrested on 7 November by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards., Sjoerd Wiemer Sjoerdsma, a liberal MP, said he was sponsoring Hamid Qara Hasanlu, an Iranian radiologist sentenced to death.
Outside Iran, the Iranian diaspora, acting on advice from human rights groups such as Amnesty International and the Norway-based Hengaw group, have issued warnings on social media that specific prisoners are in imminent danger of execution. Amnesty sent out an alert about the possible execution of Broghni.
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