Baku, Azerbaijan, Mar. 6
By Khalid Kazimov – Trend:
Iran says Saudi officials have briefed Tehran on a judiciary decision sentencing two Jeddah airport police officers to four years in prison and 1000 lashes for sexually abusing two Iranian teenagers.
Qazi Asgar, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s representative in charge of Hajj Affairs, has said the two convicts are currently serving their sentences, IRNA news agency reported.
In April 2015, two airport police officers performing body search on passengers at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah reportedly sounded off the alarm at the gate and took the Iranian teenagers away and subjected them to indecent acts.
According to Iranian sources, the country stopped sending pilgrims to Hajj over security concerns after two deadly incidents claimed the lives of more than 470 Iranian pilgrims during the 2015 Hajj rituals.
Tehran and Riyadh are currently in talks to resume sending Iranian pilgrims to Hajj rituals.