At a meeting with the Swedish ambassador in Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian demanded that “diplomat Hamid Nouri, detained in Sweden, enjoy his basic rights, including medical care and facilitating family contacts.”

He stressed that “the arrest of Hamid Nouri is illegal and the decision of the court is unacceptable, and we emphasize the need for complete innocence and immediate release.”

The case dates back to the end of 2019, when Nuri, a former member of the judiciary in Iran, traveled to Sweden to solve a man’s problem. The police arrested him at the Stockholm airport as soon as he arrived and put him in solitary confinement from that time, allowing him to communicate with his family only more than two years after he was forcibly disappeared and beaten by the security forces.

The Swedish authorities tried Nuri in a trial “based on false accusations by a number of members of the Khalq terrorist group, during which Nuri was not allowed to present evidence and documents refuting the politicized accusations against him, to return to his solitary confinement in which he does not receive medical help.”