Iran summons Swedish envoy over 'illegal' trial of ex-official

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40% : The outlet also said Nouri's trial had been influenced by the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), an opposition group which Iran considers a "terrorist" organisation due to a string of bombings in the 1980s, and attacks on Iranian soil during the Iran-Iraq War with support from former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
37% : Prosecutors have said that the 61-year-old was a deputy prosecutor at Gohardasht Prison near Tehran in 1988, when political prisoners, many of them MEK members, are alleged to have been prosecuted and ultimately executed.
36% : Following the recent developments, the foreign ministries of Iran and Sweden have advised their citizens to refrain from making unnecessary trips to the other country.
35% : Swedish prosecutors had levelled "baseless and fabricated" accusations against the official, Hamid Nouri, and Iran, the foreign ministry told Stockholm's newly-appointed envoy, Mattias Lentz, according to state-run IRNA.
30% : Tehran, Iran - Iran's foreign ministry has summoned Sweden's ambassador to protest what it called the "illegal" imprisonment and trial of a former official accused of human rights abuses in 1988.

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