AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Members of the infamous Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), an anti-Iran terrorist group culpable of killing thousands of civilians in the country, have reportedly harassed the family of a former Iranian official, who has been illegally imprisoned in Sweden since 2019.
An eyewitness told Press TV’s correspondent Robert Carter that Hamid Nouri’s family members were harassed and sworn at outside the Stockholm District Court, where Nouri’s trial is taking place.
“First of all, I’m really happy that I could find you to open my heart, actually, regarding what’s happening here,” the witness, an Iranian national, told Press TV.
He elaborated that he was passing by to go to work when he first saw the MKO members screaming and swearing at Nouri’s family in Persian.
There were “a bunch of people screaming and saying really really shameful and bad words toward an old woman,” he said, adding that this is something “I have never seen in my whole life. It never existed in my world. So, I was just shocked by what I’m hearing.”
Referring to the MKO members, he said they belong to a notorious group that has committed numerous atrocities against the Iranian people.
The eyewitness added, “Those people standing there are the most hated group in Iran. They are a terrorist organization. They have been [terrorizing], killing, torturing, bombing, and doing many crimes against Iranian civilians.”
In remarks on Monday, Secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi slammed Nouri’s trial as “unlawful and unfair,” adding that he has been detained based on false accusations and that Iran regards his detention as “forced disappearance” since his family had been kept unaware of the arrest.
Nouri was arrested upon arrival in Sweden at Stockholm Airport in 2019 and was immediately imprisoned. He has been held in solitary confinement for over two years and his family has not been allowed to visit him in prison.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Swedish ambassador to Tehran on Sunday to protest Nouri’s continued imprisonment, which it described as “totally illegal” and driven by “false allegations made by the MKO terrorist organization and the hostile smear campaign against the Islamic Republic.”
Swedish prosecutors have requested the maximum penalty of life imprisonment for Nouri, accusing the former Iranian judiciary official of prisoner abuse in 1988.
The charges against Nouri stem from accusations leveled against him by the MKO members, who claim that Nouri was involved in the execution and torture of MKO members in 1988. Nouri vehemently rejects the allegations.
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source : Pars Today
Thursday
5 May 2022
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Members of the infamous Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), an anti-Iran terrorist group culpable of killing thousands of civilians in the country, have reportedly harassed the family of a former Iranian official, who has been illegally imprisoned in Sweden since 2019.