The daughter of a U.S.-based German dissident captured by four months ago as he traveled in the Gulf says authorities have treated him harshly, denying him access to a family-chosen lawyer and televising new images of him making an apparent forced confession. In a Monday interview with VOA Persian from Los Angeles where her family lives, the daughter of dissident Jamshid Sharmahd said an lawyer hired by her family in early October has been barred by judiciary from meeting her father or accessing his file since then. “The judiciary has told our lawyer that she cannot meet my father or see his charge sheet because his case is in an investigation phase at this time,” Gazelle Sharmahd said. Sharmahd said her family’s lawyer, whose name she withheld for privacy reasons, is not on the government list. But she said the lawyer pledged to keep trying to access her father’s file.
