Tehran, IRNA – The detained Iranian citizen in Sweden Hamid Nouri has broken the country's all-time record for a prisoner kept in solitary confinement, according to a report in the Swedish media.

Nouri who has been sentenced to life in prison in Sweden is currently the person with the longest time of imprisonment in solitary confinement in Sweden, Aftonbladet newspaper said in a report on Tuesday. 

He has now spent 1,295 days (by the end of May) in a 7-square-meter cell and is separated from other prisoners, Aftonbladet quoted Thomas Bodstrom, Hamid Nouri’s lawyer as saying.

Bodstrom described Nouri as the most isolated prisoner in the history of Sweden.

Nouri has met his family several times in the past, but now he is not allowed to meet and contact them, he added.

"We had to spend a lot of time and energy for Nouri to even be allowed to talk to his Iranian lawyer, which is completely meaningless," he stated.

Hamid Nouri, an Iranian judicial employee, was detained in November 2019 upon arrival at Stockholm Airport.

The Swedish government has accused him of human rights violations based on allegations leveled against him by anti-Iran terrorist group, Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO).

Nouri along with Iranian authorities have rejected those accusations as false and politically-motivated.

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