Araz News: Iran nuclear scientist Mr. Shahram Amiri who returned to Iran from the US in 2010 after claiming he had been abducted by the CIA has been executed, his family has claimed on 7 August 2016.

He has been executed for treason, the country’s Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said.

Shahram Amiri was executed for giving vital information to the US, Ejei said, Tasnim reported August 7.

Amiri disappeared in Saudi Arabia in 2009 and resurfaced a year later in the US, where he claimed to have been abducted and interrogated by the CIA.

After reappearing in the US in 2010, he said he had been kidnapped and put under “intense psychological pressure to reveal sensitive information”.

However US officials at the time said Amiri had defected of his own accord and provided “useful information”.

The UN high commissioner for human rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said there were “serious doubts about the fairness of the trials, respect for due process and the other rights of the accused”.