Sweden Holding Iranian in Incommunicado Detention, Family Says
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Relatives of former Iranian official Hamid Nouri, who has been wrongfully accused and jailed in Sweden, say the European country has been holding him incommunicado for almost a month.
The Iranian Judiciary’s Media Center cited Hamid Nouri’s family members as saying that he has not been able to contact them for 28 days now.
The Swedish judiciary has reportedly cut off communication with his family after relocating him to another detention center, leading to serious concerns among his family in Iran.
Nouri was arrested upon arrival in Sweden at Stockholm Airport in November 2019 and immediately imprisoned. He has been held in solitary confinement for over two years.
Swedish prosecutors have requested the maximum penalty of life imprisonment for Nouri, accusing the former Iranian judiciary official of prisoner abuse.
The charges against Nouri stem from accusations leveled against him by members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), who claim Nouri was involved in the execution and torture of MKO members in 1988. Nouri vehemently rejects the allegations.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has denounced his detention as “illegal.”
Reports says Swedish judicial authorities have been preventing Nouri from contacting his family since moving him to a different detention center.
Upon arrest, he was forbidden for around eight months from making phone calls to his family members, and barred from meeting them in person for two years.