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Maziar Motamedi

Iran summons Swedish envoy over ‘illegal’ trial of ex-official

Hamid Nouri was arrested in 2019 upon arrival at Stockholm airport [File: Screen grab/Iranwire]

Tehran, Iran – Iran’s foreign ministry has summoned Sweden’s ambassador to protest what it called the “illegal” imprisonment and trial of a former official accused of human rights abuses in 1988.

Swedish prosecutors had levelled “baseless and fabricated” accusations against the official, Hamid Nouri, and Iran, the foreign ministry told Stockholm’s newly-appointed envoy, Mattias Lentz, according to state-run IRNA.

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