Iran FM calls on Sweden to respect the “fundamental rights” of wrongfully imprisoned citizens
Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian calls on Sweden to respect the “fundamental rights” of Hamid Nouri, an Iranian citizen who has been wrongfully imprisoned and convicted by Stockholm.
In a meeting with Sweden’s ambassador in Tehran, Mattias Lentz, on Sunday, the top Iranian diplomat demanded that Stockholm allow Nouri to exercise his rights to seek medical help and facilitate his talks with his relatives.
Nouri was arrested on arrival in Sweden at Stockholm airport in November 2019 and immediately imprisoned.
His accusers, who are members of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) anti-Iranian terrorist cult, have alleged that Nouri was involved in the execution and torture of MKO members in 1988. Nouri has strongly denied the charge.
Last month, a Swedish court sentenced him to life imprisonment.
Nouri is currently in solitary confinement and has been denied the right to legal representation and to select witnesses, as well as being prohibited from either seeing or contacting his family members and seeking medical attention.
Amir-Abdollahian called Nouri’s trial and conviction illegal and unacceptable, and called for the Iranian national to be completely stripped of his conviction and immediately released.
The Swedish diplomat, for his part, promised to inform his respective government about the issue. He said his country’s policy towards the Islamic Republic was to continue consultations between the two sides with a view to improving bilateral relations.