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Alireza Akbari, a twin British-Iranian citizen and former Iranian official, has been sentenced to loss of life in Iran for spying for the United Kingdom, in line with Iranian judiciary-affiliated outlet Mizan on Wednesday.
Akbari beforehand served as Iran’s deputy protection minister and was the top of the Strategic Research Institute, in addition to a member of the army group that applied the United Nations decision that ended the Iran-Iraq struggle, in line with Iranian pro-reform outlet Shargh Daily.
According to the allegations in Mizan, Akbari “some time ago was arrested for spying against this country. On this basis and after filing an indictment against the accused, the file was referred to court and hearings were held in the presence of the accused’s lawyer and based on the valid documents in this person’s file, he was sentenced to death for spying for the UK.”
The British authorities has known as for Iran to halt the execution and launch Akbari. The BBC has reported Akbari was arrested in 2019 and that he served below Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, a reformist who was in workplace from 1997 to 2005.
Akbari appealed the choice, and after reviewing the case, Iran’s Supreme Court upheld the loss of life sentence, in line with Mizan. The outlet claims Iran’s intelligence ministry confirmed that Akbari was an secret agent for the British secret intelligence service MI6, alleging that he collected “important national information and provided it in a fully aware and informed manner.”
“This spy was in the process of obtaining a visa from the British Embassy by intelligence agents stationed there,” Mizan mentioned.
UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly known as for the execution to be halted. “Iran must halt the execution of British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari and immediately release him. This is a politically motivated act by a barbaric regime that has total disregard for human life,” he mentioned in a tweet.
A UK Foreign Office spokesperson informed Act Daily News it was supporting Akbari’s household “and have repeatedly raised his case with the Iranian authorities. Our priority is securing his immediate release and we have reiterated our request for urgent consular access.”
The Islamic Republic of Iran has lengthy ranked among the many world’s prime executioners.
The regime executed 314 folks in 2021, 20% greater than the earlier 12 months, rights group Amnesty International mentioned in a report from May 2022. Many of these needed to do with drug-related crimes.
Last weekend, Iran executed two protesters charged with killing safety personnel, inflicting a world outcry. Critics mentioned that the executions had been a results of hasty sham trials.