8 Iranian sailors freed from Qatar prisons return home
Iran’s Deputy Justice Minister for International Affairs Askar Jalalian has announced the release of eight Iranian sailors from Qatari prisons.
Jalalian made the announcement on Thursday, saying that the sailors have already been transferred to Iran and arrived in Shiraz’s airport in south of the country.
He said that they are the third group of the Iranian sailors who have been released and transferred to Iran this year as a result of coordination made by the Ministry of Justice and the Iranian embassy in the Qatari capital Doha.
The official said that the Iranian sailors are mainly residents of the southern provinces of Bushehr, Hormozgan and Khuzestan, who enter the territorial waters of neighboring countries due to lack of information or because their vessels are caught in storms.