Iran urges Kenya to release 2 of its citizens charged with planning terrorist act

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Sayed Nasrollah Ebrahim and Abdolhosein Gholi Safaee were arrested Tuesday in an Iranian diplomatic car on Bishops Road in Nairobi, after they had come from visiting Kamiti Prison where they saw two other Iranians who have been jailed for 15 years on terrorism
Sayed Nasrollah Ebrahim and Abdolhosein Gholi Safaee were arrested Tuesday in an Iranian diplomatic car on Bishops Road in Nairobi, after they had come from visiting Kamiti Prison where they saw two other Iranians who have been jailed for 15 years on terrorism

Iran has urged Kenya to release two of its citizens charged by a Nairobi court with planning a terrorist act after being arrested for filming outside the Israeli embassy.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said on December 2 that the two men, Nasrollah Ebrahimi and Abdolhossein Safaee, are “official lawyers of the Justice Ministry” who, he said, had traveled to Nairobi to provide legal advice to two Iranian prisoners in Kenya.

Ebrahimi and Safaee were arrested on December 1 by Kenyan antiterrorism police after filming outside the Israeli embassy, allegedly in an Iranian diplomatic car.

Ghasemi said the arrest of the two men had been the result of a “misunderstanding” after “the intervention of some third parties into the case.”

He called for their immediate release.

The two men, along with a Kenyan driver who was also charged, had been to Kamiti prison outside Nairobi to visit two other Iranians serving a 15-year term for possessing explosives after being convicted in 2013.

A Kenyan court said the two were members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force and that they were plotting attacks against Western targets in Kenya.

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2 responses to “Iran urges Kenya to release 2 of its citizens charged with planning terrorist act”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar

    Well, Iran … speak up for the driver too, at least. And so they took some tourist pics … right?
    Can’t do that with buildings marked ‘overly-sensitive’. :-))

    1. I can’t help but to remember the Canadian-Iranian photo journalist who took pictures of Evin prison in Iran and was brutally murdered in prison for her crime of taking pictures. The evil mullah dictatorship are hypocrites first class who routinely execute people for seemingly innocent crimes against their Satanic dictatorship. Yet again Iran gets caught attempting to cause terrorism in other countries. They can deny all they want, nobody believes their lies anymore.

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