Prosecutor general punished as smuggled recording released of Akbari saying he was subjected to ‘3,500 hours of torture’
Britain has imposed sanctions on the Iranian prosecutor general after the country’s execution of the British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari, whileon Saturday after Iranian authorities claimed he was an MI6 spy, charges his family and the Foreign Office deny.
The Foreign Office has known about Akbari’s detention for a long time, but had chosen, in line with the wishes of the family, to put private pressure on the regime to secure his release. He was arrested in 2019 after he returned to Tehran from London to advise the regime on the future of the Iran nuclear deal., writing on Twitter, said: “The UK has sanctioned Iran’s Prosecutor General. Sanctioning him today underlines our disgust at Alireza Akbari’s execution.
In a recording released by his family, Akbari said security authorities had pressured judges to issue a sentence carrying the death penalty against him. “The tribunal agreed to release me on a low bail but the intelligence ministry stopped that. The supreme court voted against the death penalty, but the intelligence ministry imposed its will by threatening the judge.”
She said he had been the victim of political infighting at the highest level, with friends claiming the intelligence services were looking for someone to blame for their repeated failure to stop Israeli attacks on its nuclear scientists.
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