[[{"content_id":"2693","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"83","user_id":"2","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"2","content_title":"Iran summons Nigeria charg\u00e9 d'affaires over Zakzaky situation","content_number":"","content_date_event":"2019-07-09 08:43:30","content_summary":"Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry says it has summoned Nigeria\u2019s charg\u00e9 d'affaires to the country to express concern over reports of Nigerian Muslim leader Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky\u2019s deteriorating health condition.","content_summary_fill":"1","content_body":" \r\n\r\nMinistry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi announced the summoning on Monday, describing Zakzaki as a “eruditely and distinguished figure.”\r\n\r\n“We hope that the efforts that are being taken [towards bettering Mr. Zakzaky’s condition] yield result and he recovers his health,” Moussavi said.\r\n\r\nThe 66-year-old leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria has been in detention since December 2015 following a crackdown by Nigerian forces against the African nation’s Muslim community.\r\n\r\nHe has reportedly sustained serious injury resulting from brutal treatment by security forces that has cost him his left eye.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nPressTV-Nigeria’s Zakzaky in dire need of treatment: Rights group\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\nIslamic Human Rights Commission calls on Nigeria to immediately release Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky from prison due to threatening health condition.\r\n\r\n\r\nThe crackdown also took the lives of three of his sons and 300 of his followers.\r\n\r\nIn 2016, Nigeria’s federal high court ordered Zakzaky’s unconditional release from jail following a trial.\r\n\r\nHowever, he was charged in April 2018 with murder, culpable homicide, unlawful assembly, disruption of public peace, and other accusations. He has pleaded not guilty.\r\n\r\nMost recently, his son Mohammad said the authorities were determined to take the cleric’s life by exposing him to toxic material.","content_html":"
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Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi announced the summoning on Monday, describing Zakzaki as a \u201ceruditely and distinguished figure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
\u201cWe hope that the efforts that are being taken [towards bettering Mr. Zakzaky\u2019s condition] yield result and he recovers his health,\u201d Moussavi said.<\/p>\n\n