Iranian Court Begins Trial Of German-Iranian Rights Activist Nahid Taghavi
(Payvand Iran News)

A German-Iranian human rights activist held in Iran on vague security-related charges has had her first hearing at a Revolutionary Court, her daughter and human rights groups said. Nahid Taghavi, 66, was arrested in Tehran in October while on a family visit and spent nearly five months in solitary confinement in the capital`s notorious Evin prison, in a case rights groups say amounts to politically motivated hostage taking.