Iranian attorneys detained in Kenya return home

EghtesadOnline: Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Iranian Affairs Hassan Ghashghavi returned to the country with two Iranian attorneys and university professors, who were detained in Nairobi.

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16 December 2016

Ghashghavi who traveled to Kenya to make investigation into the Iranian detainees’ case in the country succeeded to free them and return them to the country and their families.

According to ISNA, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi had said before that the two Iranians are lawyers who had gone to Kenya to provide their jailed Iranian clients in Kenya with legal counseling, adding police arrested them as they returned from a meeting with their clients in prison.

Iran started pursuing the case soon after it was announced and succeeded to prove them wrong and returned the Iranian national safe to their families.