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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Family of executed British-Iranian national ‘prevented from seeing body’

Alireza Akbari
A member of Alireza Akbari’s family said: ‘We do not know if he is in that grave site. We do not know if he was executed on Thursday or Sunday … Perhaps even we do not know if he is dead or alive.’ Photograph: Khabar Online/AFP/Getty Images

The Tehran-based family of the executed British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari have been prevented from seeing his body or burying him in the grave in which he had asked to be laid to rest in Shiraz, his birthplace, family members have told the Guardian.

Akbari was executed for spying for M16, charges he vehemently denied and for which there is no substantive evidence, save a confession extracted under torture.

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