The Iranian embassy in Kabul in a newsletter in Persian on Sunday stated that its deputy ambassador, Sayed Hasan Murtazavi met with the Taliban’s Attorney General, Maulvi Shamsuddin Pahlavan to discuss judicial and legal cooperation and the process of transferring Iranian prisoners in Afghanistan to Iranian authorities.
According to the newsletter, the Taliban’s Attorney General promised that the process of handing over the prisoners to Iran’s judicial authorities would begin soon. The newsletter also stated that the Taliban government is carefully following the demands of the Islamic Republic of Iran in light of the “expansion of relations and commonalities between the two countries”.
“For Tehran, the follow-up of issues related to Iranian prisoners in Afghanistan was accompanied by disturbances in the past, but we hope that in the current conditions, the problems of Iranian prisoners are solved in the shortest possible time so they can return to Iran.” Iran’s deputy ambassador to Kabul said.
The Iranian embassy has reported that around 6,000 Afghan prisoners are currently serving their sentences in Iranian prisons, and 857 Afghan prisoners have been handed over to the Taliban government with the agreement of both parties. The Taliban has thanked Iran for the release of the prisoners and demanded the continuation of the process of examining the remaining cases related to Afghan citizens.
This news comes after the Taliban prosecution team headed by the group’s Attorney General visited Iran two months ago, where they discussed the transfer of citizens of Afghanistan imprisoned in Iran.
