7 Iranian prisoners repatriated from Kazakhstan

25/5/2025 7:12

Seven Iranian nationals imprisoned in Kazakhstan were repatriated on Saturday to serve the rest of their jail terms, Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency reported.



The convicts were transferred to Iran through the efforts of the Iranian Justice Ministry, Foreign Ministry, and the Iranian embassy in Astana, Mehr quoted Askar Jalalian, Iran's deputy justice minister for human rights and international affairs, as saying.



He added that the repatriation took place under a convict extradition agreement signed between the two countries in April 2016, noting this was the second group of Iranian convicts transferred from Kazakhstan to Iran in the past three months to complete their jail terms.



Jalalian said that since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year, which started on March 21, 2025, 156 Iranians jailed in other countries had been transferred to Iran's prisons.