Israel is deporting Iranian journalist who is waiting for death penalty

Israeli Minister of Internal Affairs Izheet Shaked ordered that Iranian journalist Nedin, who asked in August 2017, she left the country during the year, the N12 news service reports.

The order is based on the urgent recommendation of the General Security Service, according to which Amin, already in Israel, continued to maintain contacts with representatives of Iranian intelligence, contrary to the urgent recommendations of Israeli security services.

At the same time, all other structures involved in the consideration of the Amin case were recommended to provide her with refugee status.

Nedin Amin in 2014 fled from Iran to Turkey, where she was threatened by the death penalty. Before the flight and after him, the journalist criticized the Iranian regime in her articles and described the suffering of compatriots. In recent years, a blog on Farsi on the site of the Israeli edition Times of Israel.

The question of why she decided to write for the Israeli media, Amin answered: “I love Israel. My father’s mother was a Jew. I never supported the slogans of the Iranian regime against Israel and always dreamed of writing in Hebrew.”

In Israel, she arrived after the Turkish authorities announced that they intend to send her to Iran. The Minister of Internal Affairs Arya Deri allowed her to let her into Israel, but she never received the promised refugee status. Every three months she should come to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Bnei-Brake to extend permission to stay in Israel.

Tomer’s lawyer, Warsha submitted to the Court of Appeal to achieve the cancellation of the Shaped decision.