France – RFI, November 05, 2024
“We do not trust anything. We have to get proof from an independent investigation that is carried out outside of Iran,” Gazelle Sharmahd told AFP.
An Iranian judiciary spokesman said earlier that Sharmahd had died in prison, after a previous announcement last week said he had been executed.
Sharmahd, who was also a permanent resident in the United States, was executed on October 28 on the charge of “corruption on earth”, according to the Mizan Online news website of the Iranian judiciary.
But judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir told reporters in Tehran on Tuesday that “Sharmahd was sentenced to death, his execution was imminent, but he died before it could be carried out,” without elaborating further.
Sharmahd, 69, was tried and convicted after he was abducted in the United Arab Emirates in July 2020 by Iranian agents and forcibly brought to Iran, according to the family and the UN Working Group on arbitrary detention in a 2022 report.
