Iran summons Swedish ambassador to protest ‘illegal’ imprisonment of ex-official
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the Swedish ambassador to Tehran to protest the continued imprisonment of a former Iranian official on trial in Sweden over alleged rights abuses.
Swedish prosecutors have requested the maximum penalty of life imprisonment for Hamid Nouri, accusing the former Iranian judiciary official of prisoner abuse in 1988.
The charges against Nouri stem from accusations leveled against him by members of anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO).
He was arrested upon arrival in Sweden at Stockholm Airport in 2019 and was immediately imprisoned. Nouri, now 61, has been held in solitary confinement for over two years and his family has not been allowed to visit him in prison.
His accusers allege that Nouri was involved in the execution and torture of MKO members in 1988. Nouri vehemently rejects the allegations.
During the 89th session of his trial on Friday, Swedish prosecutors read a summary of Nouri’s indictment in court, a day after submitting a request for life imprisonment for him.
On Sunday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry called in Mattias Lentz, the newly appointed Swedish ambassador to Tehran, to convey the Islamic Republic’s strongest protest over “the baseless and fabricated” charges against Nouri.
The ministry condemned the continued detention of the former Iranian official as “totally illegal” and driven by “false allegations made by the MKO terrorist organization and the hostile smear campaign against the Islamic Republic.”
It also urged Sweden to end the “political show” of Nouri's trial and release the Iranian national.
The MKO is responsible for most of the assassinations that have targeted the Iranian people and officials since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
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