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An audacious cross-border kidnap plan carried out in Istanbul and involving a honeytrap is further straining relations between Turkey, Iran and Europe.
Sky News has been given exclusive access to Turkish counter terrorism files which show how Iranian opposition activist Habib Chaab was lured into the trap and smuggled back into Iran.
Dissident Mr Chaab now faces being publicly executed and his friends and family are urgently calling on the European Union and the rest of the international community to intervene to save him. Image: Habib Chaab was allegedly kidnapped and smuggled to Iran
Iran has been repeatedly accused of using operatives to lure dissidents being protected by Western governments into locations where they can be kidnapped or killed.
An international plan to kidnap
a dissident in Istanbul, involving a honeytrap Iranian spy, soured relations between Turkey, Iran and Europe.
Turkish counter-terrorism files claim Iranian opposition activist Habib Chaab was lured into the trap on October 9 before being smuggled back to Iran, Sky News reported on Wednesday.
The prominent Arab activist now faces public execution and his friends and family are calling on the international community to intervene and save him.
On Monday, Turkey arrested 11 people suspected of working with Iran to abduct Mr Chaab, who founded a separatist group called the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz.
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Sweden said Tuesday it had not been granted consular access to a Swedish-Iranian dissident who is detained in Iran after disappearing during a visit to Turkey in October.
Iran s state media in November reported the arrest of Habib Chaab, a political dissident living in exile in Sweden.
A spokesman for Sweden s foreign ministry said Tuesday its diplomats had still not been given consular access to Chaab, who has Swedish citizenship. Immediately when we learned of the reports we investigated through our foreign missions in Turkey and Iran. The case has also been raised with Turkey s and Iran s ambassadors to Stockholm, Erik Karlsson at the foreign ministry told AFP.
Turkey detains 13 over abduction of Ahvaz activist
Iranian ethnic Arab activist Habib Chaab, 14 December 2020 [radiojibi/Twitter] December 15, 2020 at 8:40 am
Turkish intelligence has arrested 13 people suspected of abducting Iranian ethnic Arab activist Habib Chaab, who was lured by his ex-wife to Istanbul, news agencies reported yesterday.
Chaab, a leading activist from Ahvaz – a Sunni area in Iran, is based in Sweden. He was lured to Istanbul by his ex-wife, according to
Al-Quds Al-Arabi, who had claimed she would settle a debt worth €100,000 ($121,379).
When he arrived in Istanbul, he entered a vehicle in which he thought his ex-wife was waiting, he was drugged, handcuffed and had his leg-chained before he was driven to the Turkish border city of Van and then smuggled to Iran in October.