“The committee will follow up the case via Iran’s Foreign Ministry to clarify aspects of the death of Hossein Mahboubi, an Iranian national in custody in the Dutch city of Utrecht,” added Mehdi Davatgari, a member of the committee, on Sunday.
He added that Iran’s Majlis would also investigate the issue simultaneous with an investigation by the Islamic Republic’s Embassy in the Netherlands.
Under international law, a foreign state that arrests a national of another country must report the case to the embassy of the respective government, he pointed out.
However, Dutch officials did not inform Iran’s embassy about the issue, the legislator emphasized.
Davatgari said the Majlis committee would give more information about the issue once its details are revealed.
Mahboubi was a United Arab Emirates resident who had traveled to the Netherlands.
The Iranian Embassy in The Hague said the 40-year-old was arrested in the city of Utrecht on Sunday, December 9, 2012, and died in police custody hours later.
The Dutch authorities have launched an investigation into the case to find out the cause of the death and also clarify whether the police had been involved in the incident.
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Iran’s Majlis Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy will pursue the issue of an Iranian national’s death while in police custody in the Netherlands to find out more details, an Iranian lawmaker says.
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