Foreign Ministry of Iran: Azerbaijan should immediately release unjustifiably detained Iranian citizen
As the Iranian ISNA news agency reports, Marzieh Afkham, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman stated that “Azerbaijani officials should immediately release the unjustifiably detained Iranian citizen.”
Baku Court on Grave Crimes has sentenced Iran’s citizen Bahram Feizi to 15 years imprisonment on charges of espionage mission committed for Iran and an attempt to attack the embassy of Israel.
The official representative of Iran’s Foreign Ministry referring to the above mentioned incident particularly noted. “Iran has conducted a consular investigation concerning Feizi’s case. He has been arrested without any grounds. The ambassador of Azerbaijan has been invited to Foreign Ministry of Iran to conduct negotiations about the incident. During the meeting we’ve emphasized that Bahram Feizi has been arrested without any grounds and that Azerbaijan should immediately release him.”
Note, that recently the security forces of Azerbaijan arrested another Iranian citizen Hasan Faraji for only passing near the embassy of Israel. Due to the combined efforts of Iran’s Foreign Ministry and the embassy of Iran to Azerbaijan Faraji has been released recently.
See in previous publication:
Iran- Azerbaijani Relations in 2013: decrease in trade, border clashes, ‘‘cultural wars’’
http://panorama.am/en/interviews/2013/12/28/a-israyelyan/