TEHRAN, Jun 28 (NNN-IRNA) – Qatar has released seven Iranian nationals, imprisoned in the country, said Iranian Ambassador to Doha, Hamid Dehghani, yesterday.
“Seven Iranian nationals were released today (yesterday) and transferred to their home country onboard a flight,” said Dehghani in a Twitter post.
Six of the seven released nationals had been detained for illegal entry into Qatar’s territorial waters, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
Announcing their arrests by Qatari coastguards in a tweet in May, Dehghani said, these citizens had “mistakenly” entered Qatar’s territorial waters while scuba-diving.
The six citizens were initially sentenced to a year in prison, but the ruling was suspended, thanks to the efforts of the Iranian embassy in Doha, with the assistance of Qatari officials, said Dehghani.
