{"id":6011,"date":"2022-04-27T21:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T21:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdki.org\/english\/?p=6011"},"modified":"2022-04-27T21:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T21:37:15","slug":"the-iranian-regime-is-holding-dual-national-citizens-as-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdki.org\/english\/the-iranian-regime-is-holding-dual-national-citizens-as-hostages\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iranian Regime is Holding Dual-National Citizens as Hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Us Secretary of State Anthony Blinken tweeted that the Iranian regime is using families with dual nationals as a “political card” and that the family of Emad Al-Sharqi, a prisoner of with dual nationals, has been waiting for the regime to release Emad for four years. Blinken called on Iran to stop the inhumane acts and release the prisoner.<\/p>\n

In a similar message, US Republican Senator Marco Rubio called the imprisonment of the dual-national prisoner in Evin prison unfair and demanded the speedy release of Emad.
\nEmad al-Sharqi is one of four Iranian-American citizens detained in Iran.<\/p>\n

Many have linked the detention of dual nationals to geopolitical tensions between Iran and European and North American countries. They argue that the case of Emad al-Sharqi and others with dual nationals are being used as \u201chostages\u201d for negotiations on reviving a nuclear deal<\/a> with Iran to limit its nuclear programme, <\/p>\n

The NGO Human Rights Watch has argued that since 2014 there has been a growing practice of \u201cpolitically motivated arrests\u201d against dual nationa<\/a>ls in Iran. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Us Secretary of State Anthony Blinken tweeted that the Iranian regime is using families with dual nationals as a “political card” and that the family of Emad Al-Sharqi, a prisoner of with dual nationals, has been waiting for the regime […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pdki.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pass-iran.jpg?fit=1060%2C586&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p12yuy-1yX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5145,"url":"https:\/\/pdki.org\/english\/pdki-statement-on-kurdish-political-prisoner-mohammad-nazari\/","url_meta":{"origin":6011,"position":0},"title":"PDKI Statement on Kurdish Political Prisoner Mohammad Nazari","author":"Admin English","date":"October 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"In a statement, PDKI calls on Kurdish political prisoner Mohammad Nazari, who has been imprisoned in Iran for 24 years without furlough, to end his hunger strike. 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