(Reuters) Sweden’s state prosecutors have charged an Iraqi Swede with spying on the Ahwazi community in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe and passing the information to Iranian authorities.
The Ahwazi are an Arab minority mostly living in the Iranian province of Khusestan and face persecution and discrimination from authorities there, according to Amnesty International.
The prosecution authority said on Wednesday that the 46-year-old man was charged with collecting personal information about members of the Ahwazi community under the pretence of working for an online publication.
Some of the information was passed to members of the Iranian security services, the prosecutor said in a statement. The man denies the charges.
