News in Brief
Raeisi to visit Indonesia
ISNA – Heading a high-ranking delegation, Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi will pay an official visit to Jakarta on Monday at the official invitation of his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo to discuss deepening and expanding bilateral economic, political, and cultural relations.
Holding bilateral meetings with the Indonesian president as well as with speakers of the House of Representatives and the People’s Consultative Assembly of Indonesia and signing cooperation documents in different fields are among President Raeisi’s agenda during this visit.
'Humanitarian facade' of West won’t fool Iran
The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said that instead of interfering in the internal affairs of other states and displaying a "humanitarian facade," Western politicians had better respect the human rights and civil demands of their own citizens.
In a statement released on Saturday, Nasser Kanaani condemned the interfering comments made by a number of American and European officials following Iran’s recent execution of three convicts charged with launching terrorist attacks.
Nouri’s solitary confinement ‘world record’: Lawyers
PRESS TV – Lawyers of Iranian national Hamid Nouri, who has been illegally detained in Sweden for more than three years, have criticized his trial process and the way he is being treated in jail, saying the 62-year-old’s solitary confinement is a “world record”.
Hanna Larsson, Nouri’s lawyer, said that her client has now spent 3.5 years in solitary confinement in Swedish detention centers and that the way he is treated by jailers is “very heinous.”