While the federal government in Vienna speaks of a “huge diplomatic success” in the case of the two Austrian citizens released from an Iranian prison, Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi is strongly critical of the prisoner agreement. The Iranian warns Europe: “This is a wrong policy. You are putting yourself in danger.”
The release of the two Austrians imprisoned in Iran, Kamran Ghaderi and Massud Mossaheb, as well as a Dane last week and a Belgian before that, was part of an exchange with Tehran: in return, an Iranian convicted in Belgium was released. Iranian diplomat Asadollah Assadi, previously stationed in Vienna, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Belgium for his part in a planned attack on a gathering of Iranians in exile.
Ebadi said in an interview with the APA: “Actually, I would demand that Europeans stop talking about human rights because they do not live them themselves or think that human rights only benefit them.”
“Innocent people held hostage”
There is an established practice of Iran taking innocent people hostage and “the states are compliant and they are ready to pay ransoms to free these hostages,” criticized the human rights activist, speaking on the occasion of a joint investigation by the State Department and the UN -Human Rights Symposium, organized by the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Vienna.
Source: Krone
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