Family members, activists demand release of Hamid Nouri
Saman Kojouri
Press TV, Tehran
Relatives, family members and a group of activists gathered in front of the Swedish embassy in Tehran to demand the release of former Iranian judiciary official Hamid Nouri, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Swedish court.
The protesters condemned the politicized verdict issued against Nouri, who has been kept in solitary confinement for over three years.
Earlier Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian called on the new Swedish government to immediately release Nouri, saying the politicized case of Nouri and efforts by the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group to disrupt a legal probe into the case have seriously harmed relations between Tehran and Stockholm.
Swedish authorities alleged that Nouri was involved in the execution and torture of the MKO members in 1988. He has strongly rejected the allegations.
According to Iranian officials, keeping an individual in solitary confinement for over three years is tantamount to torture, which runs against the EU convention on Human rights.
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