The new round of harassment against the Nouri family, including his daughter and grandchildren, took place ahead of the 13th session of appeals hearing of the 62-year-old Iranian prisoner at a court on the outskirts of Stockholm on Friday.
Majid and Atieh, the son and daughter of Nouri, said the MKO’s supporters started chanting anti-Iran slogans on sight and “cursing us out” upon arrival at the court.
“A guy walked up to me and started cursing us out,” Atieh said. “I turned around and told him to be ashamed of himself for doing that before the kids. ‘These are kids; they don’t deserve to be treated like that.’ But he started shouting again.”
Speaking after the hearing session on Friday, Majid pointed to the unfair procedure of Nouri’s case, saying the Swedish court officials claimed that
“our witnesses were suspected of testifying under duress” and their testimony was “prearranged.”
Nouri’s son also said the officials opposed the presence of the defendant’s witnesses during the trial, stressing that the court had warned to apprehend the witnesses if they attended the hearings.
Most isolated prisoner in Swedish history
Thomas Bodstrom, Nouri’s lawyer, was reported by the Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet in May as saying that the Iranian prisoner had by then spent 1,295 days in a 7-square-meter cell and broken the all-time record of solitary confinement in the history of the Nordic country.
Bodstrom described him as “the most isolated prisoner” in Swedish history.
The former Iranian judiciary official was arrested upon arrival at Stockholm Airport in November 2019 and was immediately imprisoned.
Nouri was put on trial on unfounded allegations staged against him by elements representing the MKO terrorist group that has openly boasted about carrying out terrorist operations against Iranian officials and civilians perceived to be supporters of the Islamic Republic.
The terrorist group had claimed that Nouri was involved in the execution and torture of MKO members in 1988, which he has vehemently rejected.
On July 14, 2022, a Swedish court sentenced Nouri to life imprisonment. The court, which has been described by Iranian officials as illegal, convicted Nouri of so-called war crimes and crimes against humanity, based on allegations leveled against him by the MKO.
Nouri has been put in solitary confinement since his illegal arrest.