TEHRAN: Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Sweden's ambassador to Iran for "the continuing political incarceration" of a former Iranian prosecutor in Sweden, Tasnim news agency reported.

The Iranian ministry reportedly summoned Matthias Lentz in response to a Swedish court's continued political detention of Iranian Hamid Nouri, describing the Swedish court proceedings and detention of Hamid Nouri as "completely illegal and under the influence of baseless claims of an opposition group," according to the report. The ministry also urged for the detainee's release.

Prosecutors in Sweden have asked for Nouri's life in jail, charging him of "prisoner maltreatment" in 1988.

Nouri was arrested upon arriving in Sweden in 2019 at Stockholm Airport, notwithstanding his denial of the charges.

According to the Foreign Ministry's website, the director-general for West European affairs denounced the court proceedings and incarceration of Nouri as wholly illegitimate and based on the terrorist organisation MKO's baseless and fraudulent acts and claims, as well as condemning hostile propaganda against Iran.

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