The son of an Iranian citizen detained in Sweden says that all contact with his father has been cut off
The son of Hamid Nouri, an Iranian citizen who has been jailed and sentenced to life in prison in Sweden for alleged rights abuses in Iran, says Stockholm has cut off all contact between his father and his family.
“My father has been in isolation in Sweden for 37 months now, and we have been trying to contact him all the time, but Sweden has cut off all contact,” Majid Nouri said on Tuesday.
He said that they had recently asked Swedish police why telephone contact was not available, to which the police replied that such contact was made unavailable because Nouri had asked a political question in a previous telephone conversation.
Majid Nouri said his father had only asked “an ordinary question about Iran.”
He also said that Sweden allowed personal visits to his father, “who is in very difficult circumstances.”
Nouri was arrested in Sweden in 2019. A Swedish court handed down the life sentence against Nouri in July, after 93 court hearings in which 50 people participated as plaintiffs and witnesses, all reportedly members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e-Khalq group or their relatives.
The Mojahedin-e-Khalq group is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Iranians in terrorist attacks in Iran after the 1979 revolution.
Iran has demanded Nouri’s immediate release and compensation for the damages caused by his “illegal” detention.