Iran slams Sweden for violating Hamid Nouri’s basic rights

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN- Iran's top human rights official has denounced Sweden for denying Hamid Nouri the opportunity to see his family in person while he
has been confined to a solitary confinement for almost three years.The comments were made by Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary of Iran's High
Council for Human Rights, at a meeting with Nouri's son in Tehran on Sunday.Nouri, a former Iranian official, was unlawfully detained in
November 2019 immediately after he landed in Stockholm airport.The official criticized the "illegal" trial of Nouri and his "arbitrary"
incarceration.He said throughout this time, Sweden has also violated fundamental human rights principles, stressing that keeping Nouri in
solitary confinement for the previous 32 months is an outrage in the country's human rights record.Additionally, Gharibabadi informed his
son about the actions taken by the Judiciary and other Iranian bodies to investigate the illegal detention of the former official.Swedish
prosecutors have requested the maximum penalty of life imprisonment for Nouri, accusing the former Iranian judiciary official of prisoner
abuse in 1988.The accusations against Nouri are a result of claims leveled against him by terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization members
(MKO)
Nouri is charged by his accusers of participating in the 1988 murder and torture of MKO members
son described the circumstances of his father's detention in Sweden, highlighting the 32-month-long harsh treatment of his father by Swedish
still being held in a solitary cell despite major health concerns.Nouri also revealed details of his physical abuse by Swedish police for
the first time