TEHRAN – Swedish authorities have limited Hamid Nouri’s calls and visits and ignored his requests for medical attention or treatment, according to the Iranian national’s lawyers speaking during the first session of his last round of appeals.

On Monday, Nouri’s lawyer, Hanna Larsson, raised concerns about his detention, including restricted calls and visits. She also highlighted the lack of action taken by the detention center to address these issues and mentioned Nouri's difficulties in accessing medical care. 

Nouri, a former Iranian judiciary official, was illegally arrested upon his arrival at Stockholm Airport in November 2019 and has been imprisoned since then. Swedish authorities accused him of involvement in the execution and torture of members of the Mojahedin-e-Khalq terror organization in 1988. 

On July 14, 2022, Nouri was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Swedish court, which Iranian officials consider illegal. He has been held in solitary confinement since his arrest.

In May, Thomas Bodstrom, Nouri's lawyer, was reported by the Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet as stating that Nouri had already spent 1,295 days in a 7-square-meter cell, breaking the record for the longest period of solitary confinement in Sweden's history. Bodstrom referred to him as the most isolated prisoner in Swedish history.

The prisoner’s son has also detailed his dad’s dire conditions in Swedish jails. “We regard the model of torture against my father which includes severe restrictions and imbalance in services to be the Israeli model,” Majid Nouri wrote on X last December. 

According to Majid, during the four years of Nouri’s detention the Iranian national barely got to speak to his family and friends. At one point, he couldn’t speak to anyone outside the jail for over a year. The 62-year-old also gets strip searched every week and gets threatened before being allowed to talk to his family members, Majid said quoting his father. 

Nouri’s family has also reported getting harassed by MKO members when trying to attend court hearings. 

MHA/PA