Turkey detains 13 over abduction of Ahvaz activist
Iranian ethnic Arab activist Habib Chaab, 14 December 2020 [radiojibi/Twitter] December 15, 2020 at 8:40 am
Turkish intelligence has arrested 13 people suspected of abducting Iranian ethnic Arab activist Habib Chaab, who was lured by his ex-wife to Istanbul, news agencies reported yesterday.
Chaab, a leading activist from Ahvaz – a Sunni area in Iran, is based in Sweden. He was lured to Istanbul by his ex-wife, according to
Al-Quds Al-Arabi, who had claimed she would settle a debt worth €100,000 ($121,379).
When he arrived in Istanbul, he entered a vehicle in which he thought his ex-wife was waiting, he was drugged, handcuffed and had his leg-chained before he was driven to the Turkish border city of Van and then smuggled to Iran in October.