Foreign Affairs maintains contacts for the discharge of the 2 Spaniards who stay detained in IranSantiago Sánchez Cogedor was arrested on October 2, when attempting to take {a photograph} of the grave of Masha AminiAna Baneira was arrested a month later, originally of November, within the framework of the protests for the dying of the younger Iranian
Two and a half months have already handed since Santiago Sánchez Cogedor was arrested in Iran. Since then, his mom, Celia, has been on the telephone, ready for the long-awaited information of his launch. For this purpose, she doesn’t take lengthy to take the decision from NIUS and clarify how the scenario is. Her son, Santiago, is among the two Spaniards detained in Iran on account of the protests that arose all through the nation after the dying of Masha Amini, the younger lady who died whereas being arrested by the police, for not sporting the veil appropriately. The different Spaniard imprisoned within the Persian nation is the Galician Ana Baneira. There will not be a lot details about the younger lady from A Coruña because the household has determined to wager on most discretion whereas ready for the whole lot to be resolved by diplomatic channels, with out media strain.
Sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs consulted by NIUS guarantee that the conversations with the Iranian authorities are fixed to attain the discharge of each. Contacts additionally confirmed by the mom of Santiago Sánchez Cogedor. The 71-year-old lady had hoped that her offspring can be launched after the soccer World Cup, however the competitors has already ended and she or he nonetheless has no signal of a speedy launch. “We should keep in mind that we’re speaking about Iran, a rustic that launched 700 prisoners as a result of its staff scored two targets in a World Cup,” she particulars.
In Celia’s statements there isn’t any signal of anger or resentment. Quite the other. The lady claims to be very grateful for the work of the diplomats, together with for the reception and the discuss of greater than an hour with the Iranian ambassador in Spain. “He acquired me, I’m no one, we’re humble individuals from Alcalá de Henares.” Celia expressed to the Iranian consultant the identical factor that she uncovered on Sunday in her manifesto in entrance of the embassy. A silent focus, to request the discharge of Santiago and apologize if his son “has been in a position to offend them in one thing.”
Celia Corredor, mom of Santiago Sánchez, within the rally in entrance of the Iranian embassyRemitted
Santiago Sánchez “will not be a spy”
Then, as now, the girl manages to comprise the emotion earlier than the media, though the occupation is inside. “You do not know how harrowing that is. In entrance of the press I maintain again my tears, however at residence it’s horrible, horrible, there may be not an evening that I don’t get up anguished calling my son, even though I’m medicated and I’m taking anxiolytics ”. This even though Celia is satisfied that her son is okay and that she’s going to study from the whole lot she has skilled. “Because Santiago is like that, at all times with a smile, at all times constructive, he’s an individual with a particular aura; a person who may be very clear that life isn’t just work, that you should stay with out consuming a lot, being empathetic and who may be very clear that a greater world is feasible”. “Whoever thinks that Santiago can threaten state safety is as a result of he does not know him, how can he be a spy?” Asks his mom.
The Instagram profile of this resident of Alcalá de Henares corroborates these statements, with quite a few entries that testify to his travels all over the world and his different nice ardour: Real Madrid. Two years in the past, in 2019, profiting from a contest that the Madrid membership performed in Saudi Arabia, Santiago visited Iran, falling in love with “the landscapes, tradition, hospitality, generosity and kindness” of his individuals.
For this purpose, this yr he determined to repeat the journey. He left his job as a forklift driver at a logistics firm in Guadalajara and, profiting from the sponsorships and assist of his followers on networks (he has greater than 50,000 on Instagram), he determined to go to the Qatar World Cup from the Madrid metropolis of Alcalá de Henares. A journey that started in January. His intention was to stroll 15 kilometers a day and arrive at his vacation spot in November to have the ability to cheer on the Spanish staff. It was not attainable. Santiago Sánchez knew the place he was stepping into when he acquired into Iran, he knew that the scenario was very turbulent as a result of his father and his associates on social networks had warned him so. Even so, pushed by his constructive character and his “enormous coronary heart”, Santiago determined to proceed with the deliberate itinerary.
He is conscious that he made a mistake, his mom tells NIUS. This was acknowledged by Santiago himself 20 days in the past, when Celia managed to talk for 10 minutes on the telephone because of the truth that the Spanish ambassador in Iran, Ángel Losada, went to the jail in Iranian Kurdistan the place he was detained, virtually 10 hours away from Tehran. Now the target is for the Iranian authorities to know as quickly as attainable that the 2 Spaniards arrested don’t pose any hazard to the safety of the nation. Will it’s earlier than Christmas? “Hopefully,” Celia replies with a damaged voice, though “occasions in Iran usually are not the identical as right here,” she notes.