The mystery of Austria’s silence over dual citizens held in Iran
Jan 14, 2022
3 minutes
By Patrick Wintour
Six years ago on New Year’s Day, an Iranian-Austrian IT businessman said goodbye to his wife and three children and boarded a flight from Vienna to Tehran via Istanbul. Kamran Ghaderi had been due to return five or six days later, but he was arrested and has spent six years in Evin prison in Tehran.
In October 2016, he was sentenced to 10 years for spying for a foreign country at a trial during which neither he nor his lawyer were able to say more than two words. His
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