According to the NGO International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, the hashtag #SaveArash was for a time the highest trending topic on Twitter on Friday.
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On Saturday, Sadeghi\u2019s lawyer Amir Raeesian said that Sadeghi and his wife, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, would be released on Sunday if the bail requirements are met, but did not state the duration of their temporary release.
Marietje Schaake, a member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands, tweeted on Saturday to \u201cremember those unfree #ArashSadeghi\u201d and added, \u201cAll political prisoners and others unjustly detained in #Iran should be freed.\u201d
Volker Beck, a leading German Green Party MP and human rights activist, said on Saturday, \u201cIran is a despot\u201d and mentioned that there is no human rights treatment in its correctional facility.
Beck said the \u201calleged liberalization has changed nothing in Iran\u2019s prison system.
The German government will probably not prevent the German DAX [made up of 30 major German companies on the Frankfurt stock exchange] from engaging in business with this regime. One would wish for something more oriented toward human rights in 2017.\u201d
B\u00e4rbel Kofler, from the German Commission for Human Rights, said on Wednesday, \u201cArash Sadeghi was convicted for his human rights engagement.\u201d
His wife \u201cwas convicted because she spoke out peacefully against the inhumane practice of stoning,\u201d Kofler said.
Sadeghi\u2019s 15-year-prison sentence started last June. According to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Iran\u2019s judiciary convicted Sadeghi of \u201cassembly and collusion against national security, propaganda against the state, spreading lies in cyberspace and insulting the founder of the Islamic Republic.\u201d
Experts say Iran\u2019s opaque judiciary system does not meet international norms for fairness.
Canadian Sen. Linda Frum, chairwoman of the Senate Conservative Caucus, issued a series of tweets on Friday drawing attention to Sadeghi\u2019s plight, urging that he be saved.
Salma Ataullahjan, a Canadian senator who is the deputy chair of the Senate\u2019s Committee on Human Rights, wrote, \u201cWe must always support brave individuals like Arash Sadeghi who are not afraid to speak out against injustice.\u201d The former UK soccer star Gary Lineker, described Sadeghi as \u201cbeyond brave.\u201d
His wife was arrested last October.
\u201cGolrokh Ebrahimi Iraee is the latest young writer and activist to be caught up in Iran\u2019s relentless crackdown on artistic expression. Her imprisonment for peacefully voicing her opposition to stoning is a terrible injustice and an outrageous assault on freedom of expression. It is also a shocking and deeply disturbing display of support for the cruel and inhuman punishment of stoning,\u201d said Magdalena Mughrabi, deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, in October.
Mughrabi added, \u201cThe Iranian authorities must break this cycle of injustice and immediately and unconditionally release… Iraee. We also urge them to ensure that her conviction is quashed.\u201d
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