Sweden-held Iranian prisoner allowed to call family after a year: Son
A former Iranian judiciary official, who has been illegally imprisoned in Sweden since late 2019, has been allowed to call his family after an entire year, his son has revealed.
"By God's grace and [thanks to] our friends' prayers as well as political and media pressures, Sweden finally stopped one instance of its inhumane behaviors, and my father [was allowed to] call after a year," his son, Majid, tweeted on Tuesday.
لطف خدا و دعای دوستان و فشارهای سیاسی و رسانه‌ای باعث شد بلاخره سوئد دست از یکی از رفتارهای ضدبشری خود بردارد و پدرم بعد از یک سال تماس گرفتند
— مجید نوری (@majid_noury) June 13, 2023
خوشحالم که با پدرم صحبت کردیم
البته همچنان در انفرادی است و همچنان پیگیریم تا دادرسی ناعادلانه او پایان یابد و از بند اسارت آزاد گردد... pic.twitter.com/fR6ZCWuEJB
"I am glad that we [got to] talk to my father," he added.
Nouri was arrested immediately upon arrival at the Arlanda Airport in Stockholm more than three years ago.
Swedish authorities alleged that he had been involved in the execution and torture of members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) cult back in 1988.
On July 14, 2022, a Swedish court sentenced Nouri to life imprisonment.
The court, which has been described by Iranian officials as illegal, convicted Nouri of so-called war crimes and crimes against humanity, based on allegations leveled against him by the MKO.
Nouri has been put in solitary confinement since his illegal arrest.
Speaking to his family, he partially recounted his ordeal.
"[Being in] prison already has its own concomitant adversities. If you are held in solitary confinement, it is like you are being held in a prison, [which is located] inside another prison," he said, adding, "I have been truly subjected to too much oppression...I am innocent."
"We are still pursuing cessation of his unjust trial so he is freed from the thralldom of incarceration," added the tweet by his son.
Last December, Nouri's son revealed that the victim had been tortured since the arrest, adding that the systematic ill-treatment inflicted on him had Israeli fingerprints all over it.
"We regard the model of torture against my father, which includes severe restrictions and imbalance in services, to be the Israeli model," Majid said at the time.
Nouri is not the only Iranian, who has been subjected to illegal trial and imprisonment in Europe based on unfounded allegations.
Last month, Iran welcomed back home Assadollah Assadi, a former Iranian diplomat, who had endured several years of unjust so-called legal proceedings and incarceration in Belgium over concocted "terror-related" charges slapped against him by Brussels.
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