TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has arrested a German national for photographing oil facilities in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, an Iranian newspaper reported Tuesday.
“A German citizen arrested while taking photos of oil services in Omidiyeh,” a town in the oil-producing province, the Jam-e Jam newspaper reported on its website.
The newspaper gave main points of the identity of the detainee or the date of his arrest.
The German Foreign Ministry said so aware of the data circulating in the Iranian media.
“Our ambassador has spoken out lately on this case,” the ministry told AFP.
The report comes as Iran has been rocked by protests against the death in custody on September 16 of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who was arrested for an alleged violation of the country’s women’s dress code.
The Iranian government has accused hostile foreign nations of stoking the unrest and made thousands of arrests.
The court showed that another 18 people were sentenced to death in connection with the “riots”, according to an AFP tally of official announcements. Four were executed.
Separately, Iran said on Saturday it had executed Alireza Akbari, a dual British-Iranian national, after the former Defense Ministry official was sentenced to death for spying for the UK.
Germany’s Foreign Ministry summoned Iran’s ambassador on Monday to express its condemnation of the execution. It is their moment of protest in a week against Iran’s use of the death penalty.
Two Iranian-German citizens will be detained in Iran.
Jamshid Sharmahd is accused of a deadly attack on a mosque in 2008 and faces the death penalty.
Human rights activist Nahid Taghavi sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2021 for participating in an illegal group.
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